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Are there ever leftover cookies? Yes, when you´re taking them out of the oven a tad bit too late and they´re like bricks!

My cookies weren´t burnt so I ground them very finely to use them as a base for cakes and desserts, simply mixing them with melted butter.

This dessert is made of a strawberry compote, thickened with some cornflour, the ground cookies mixed with half the weight of melted butter and some mascarpone on top, perfumed with only very little alcohol, mixed with some whipped cream and powder sugar.

Yesterday was soup-day. I had no idea what I could cook for dinner, all I knew was that it should be something light, quick and easy because there was still a lot to do at home!

I didn´t stick to the recipy for 100%. OH loves oregano with tomatoes so I´ve added some towards the end of the cooking process. I also took double the amount of carrots and needed some veg stock because the soup was too thick.

We had some toasted plain white bread along with the soup, keeping it simple.

This is defo going to my got-to-cook-that-again-list!

Merry Xmas everyone!!!

Maddi
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Hey all,

I´m signed off ill with a stomach bug (how great, just before christmas!) and I´m bored to the skull so I though an update on my blog would be nice!

I´ve recently cooked Jamie´s fish pie, the first recipy I used from his book. We totally loved it!

Sorry the photo is not that good, we just couldn´t wait to start eating so it was a quick snap

The original plan was to try every recipy from the book at least once, but I´ve already seen there are loads of dishes my OH won´t like - he does eat fish, but doesn´t like seafood or meat that´s on the bone (which I like best!). So we´ll have to see about that.

I´ve set my eyes on two recipes I want to try next, the tomato soup and the pork roast with loads of vinegar and bay leaves.

Hello lovely,

see, that´s how my list looks like right now

I will re-write it next weekend. It defo needs re-writing!!!

Maddi
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Hallo everyone!

I love cake. Only problem is, whenever I fancy a slice of cake there is none and often I am waaaay too lazy to go and bake one! On the other hand, once the baking-virus takes over I could stay in the kitchen and bake cakes all day. But who would eat them?

I have read about baking in a glass-cakes more than two years ago and bought the right glasses for this kind of baking a while ago. I´ve now tried it for the first time and it´s absolutely fantastic!

You can´t bake EVERY sort of cake, of course. But there are still so many recipes that can be used, and they don´t even need any changes.

You might remember this recipy:

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/memb … 0cake/2810

I´ve taken this recipy, replaced the lemonjuice with the juice of one orange. There was enough cake mixture for five glasses (350 ml) and I baked the cake(s) with 180°C for about 20 minutes. That´s the only thing, you have to check on them every now and then because the time the cakes need in the oven does of course vary to the time the cake needs as a whole.

I am taking part in a secret Santa-game soon and we´re sending off parcels. I will take this recipy again, I thought of using a bundt cake recipy that uses loads of ground hazelnuts and a recipy for a chocolate-red wine-cake, replacing the red wine with mulled wine to make it more christmassy.

It´s only six weeks to christmas, so I better go baking!