May
22
2015
0

2015 Project365 (Day 142)

Guernsey Bean Jar

OK, I know this doesn’t look like the most beautiful plate of food you will have ever seen but it is absolutely delicious!

This is Guernsey Bean Jar and it is a bean and pork stew. Thick and meaty it was traditionally put in the bread oven overnight and eaten for breakfast.

Several places on the island serve it, but Cobo Tea Rooms makes one of the best ones!

Written by Anna Williams in: Food,Guernsey | Tags: ,
Mar
04
2015
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2015 Project365 (Day 63)

OnionsThis might be a photo of chopped onions but I have to admit to this revolutionising my cooking!

I used to hate peeling onions, they made me cry and I just loathed it. These days all I do is go to my freezer and whip out a bag and lob a load of beautifully diced onions into the pan.

Thankyou Waitrose. A product I would totally recommend!

Written by Anna Williams in: Food |
Nov
21
2014
0

2014 Project365 (Day 325)

StuckTonight I have been doing a load of baking for a sale I am having tomorrow.

It generally went to plan other than the flapjacks which wouldn’t come out of the tin. In the end I gave up and hacked it out in a pile and made another one.

Sometimes you have to know when you are beat!

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Nov
05
2014
0

2014 Project365 (Day 309)

Sweet cake

Oooo look at it! This is a prize-winning Sweet Cake made to Auntie Doris’s secret family recipe.

I made 4 of them today and it tastes delicious!

The diet? Nope not going well at all!

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Aug
20
2014
0

2014 Project365 (Day 232)

Cake domination!Today was the start of our local show, the “North Show” and I decided to enter three cakes; a fruit cake, a Buttermilk cake and a Sweet cake.

My Mum always entered along with her two sisters and the competition was hot! Usually we are at Greenbelt so not able to enter but this year I though I would enter in her honour.

I have never made Sweet Cake before so asked Auntie Josie for the secret family recipe which she duly provided. Last year Mum won the class (I think) but this year I won, beating my two aunts into second and third. To say I was delighted was an understatement.

Mind you, they both beat me in the Buttermilk class!

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Jun
24
2014
0

2014 Project365 (Day 175)

Raspberries

Our first raspberry harvest!

The hardest bit about growing these is stopping The Little Mister eating them before they are ripe! He loves all fruit, but especially raspberries and strawberries.

Written by Anna Williams in: Food,Veg patch | Tags:
Jun
18
2014
0

2014 Project365 (Day 169)

Cake!

My lovely friend Hannah came over tonight so I could help her with her patchwork quilt that she has been making.

She also bought me this delicious diddy cream cake. A good friend indeed!

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Jun
02
2014
0

2014 Project365 (Day 153)

Glorious toast

This morning I had to go to the hospital for screening for gestational diabetes. It’s a fairly grim test where you have to do a fasting blood test, drink a sugary drink and then two hours later they do another blood test to see how efficiently your body has metabolised the sugar.

Then comes the best bit. They make you what will be the second best toast you have ever eaten. The best toast you will have is just after you have had your baby. Truly delicious!

Written by Anna Williams in: Baby,Food | Tags:
May
17
2014
0

2014 Project365 (Day 137)

Family fun

It has been a lovely day here today, warm and sunny and we planned a family barbecue for the aunts and uncles. It was a nice chance to get together and we used the excuse of Mum’s birthday to convene such a gathering!

As ever we had an epic amount of food, including a rather fabulous selection of desserts.

The children had a lovely day playing in the paddling pool and collecting worms from the garden!!!

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Apr
22
2014
0

2014 Project365 (Day 112)

Guernsey gache

We had planned to go to Herm today but the weather was really ropey so we made the very sensible decision to not go – fortunate as it drizzled on an off all over lunchtime!

Instead we went to Sausmarez Park as the museum there had an open day so entry was free, there people people there demonstrating various traditional crafts and most importantly there was a Guernsey gache tasting stall. It was lovely to spend the afternoon with my sister and the kids and it was really entertaining to watch the cousins running about together. Their relationship and friendships are becoming so interesting and strong. It is a real pleasure to see.

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