Just when I think I'm getting better at this Domestic Goddess lark I go and do it again - I manage to have another complete disaster in the kitchen.These are the burnt crusts from the ham and cheese quiches I have just lovingly baked. I got distracted by Miss Frugal and her pack of High School Musical Top Trumps!I carefully cut the burnt bits off in a cunning attempt to disguise my disaster but my darling husband (NOT) took one look at the quiches and said (insert smug grin and patronising voice here) 'what happened this time?'To make matters worse - I didn't even win … [Read more...]
I am never going to be a Domestic Goddess….
I am never, ever going to be a Domestic Goddess - No matter how hard I try, I always end up doing something wrong.I have just tried to make cinnamon buns from here and I managed to mess up a really simple recipe. It was all going so well and they are in the oven now but I have a feeling that they are not going to taste nice as I forgot to activate the dried yeast. Actually I didn't forget, I just didn't have a clue that you have to mix dried yeast with water to activate it. I just poured it in to my mixture and only realised that I had a problem when the dough didn't rise as much as I was … [Read more...]
Kitchen Disaster….
I knew it was too good to be true, everything has been going so well on the cooking front lately.Last night, I decided to make some chicken and vegetable soup and being the perfect Domestic Goddess that I am (not), I started by making my chicken stock from scratch. I must admit that I found this part really easy as I was following the step by step instructions on the blog 'A shade of lavender'. Unfortunately, once my chicken stock was made, I decided to go it alone as I had read somewhere that you can't go wrong when making soups.... I can now confirm that whoever said that was blissfully … [Read more...]
