Another week gone...

More comfort food being eaten here at the moment. The weather has turned quite cold with foggy mornings and dull days. After Brianna's culinary delight last Monday, my pasta disaster on Tuesday, we then had lamb cutlets and veggies on Wednesday.

Thursday night we had Chicken Enchiladas - quite spicy but very tasty.
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Netball was at Robe but we escaped the rain and stayed dry for the duration of the game.
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I watched this movie (and wasted my Sunday afternoon) while Angus watched the footy. Hugh Grant was a total let-down in this flick. I think he is best off acting in British comedy/dramas because when he does American films he seems to come off as a foppish, bumbling English fool. I loved him in Nottinghill, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually but he failed to enthuse me in this poor excuse for a comedy. And Sarah Jessica Parker - why did she need to wear a wig? Score 4/10 Annoying
(of course this is entirely my own opinion)
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I had a hankering for a Jubilee Cake on Sunday afternoon also. I have a Green & Gold Cookbook so I looked up the recipe and made the cake. Simple ingredients and simple recipe.... for a fruity house brick!!! It was a total, inedible disaster. I threw the inch high cake (and all the yummy fruit I had wasted) in the scrap bin and started again, determined to have that cake.
My sister Leanne came to the rescue with a 'never fail' recipe that she had. Above is the fruit mixture boiling away. I could just eat the fruit like this.
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Ah, a much better result.
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BOILED JUBILEE CAKE
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In a small saucepan add -
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
2 cups mixed dried fruit (I also added chopped dried apricots and Craisins)
60 gms butter
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Boil all of these until sugar has dissolved. Let the mixure completely cool.
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To the cooled fruit mixure, add 2 cups of SR flour and 1 beaten egg. Mix well to combine.
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Place in a lined loaf tin and cook for approx. 40-50 minutes at 180C (test with skewer and make sure it comes out clean).
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Make a runny icing mixure (icing sugar and milk) and ice the cake when it has nearly cooled. Sprinkle with coconut if desired. Wait for icing to set then slice a piece off and butter it. Serve with tea or coffee and a friend.
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It was a very wet and dreary weekend with showers of rain both days. I love my Mum's homemade soup so I gave her the ingredients (bacon bones, carrot, potato, swede, turnip, celery, onion, split pea soup mix) and she made me a big pot of it. My lunch today - Yum! I just can't get the flavour in it like she does.
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My pc monitor decided to give up the ghost on Saturday so I am without a computer at the moment. Bri is away for a few days so I can't commandeer her laptop so posts will have to be done at work (like this one).
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Hope you are all well,
Joolz