Absence makes the heart grow fonder, or so the expression goes! I bet you have all missed me ever so much! Well fear not I am back, and like a fat kid on a cupcake, I would not recommend stopping me!
So it seems my little foodie world has crumbled around me like a packet of dropped digestives, weeping crumbs in the corner of the reduced section! I have joined the massed ranks of the unemployed, having been made redundant last week. As a silver lining to all clouds thinker, I have decided rather than relying on Jeremy Kyle and the Loose Women to perk me up, I will now be baking and cooking a lot! I say I will be, as last week was very busy with endless parties of friends cheering me up! Which started off very well with Caroline, my American friend cooking the most inedible meal she has possibly ever cooked and the week ended with a cheese and pineapple hedgehog. Seems redundancy is going to be a stretch of un-apetising food, best find a job soon before any Spam fritter related meals crop up!
I had a bit of a wobble mid week, where I feared I was turning into my mother a little earlier than planned, when I found myself boiling an egg at 1am post champagne and canapes, but spent the next day was spent drinking ginger ale out of the can reading Closer magazine whilst sending my CV out to anyone and everyone. I did get a little creative in the afternoon when I bought my cheese and pineapple hedgehog to life with the addition of some edible glitter I had lurking in the cupboard behind the icing sugar and Rich’s secret stash of tinned tuna and mackerel and sardines, which are only allowed to be eaten when I am out of the house.
*Hmmm, it seems I have lost my computer touch and I cannot get my pineapple to rotate, think of it as a Magic Eye. And I promise I will ration my Jeremy Kyle watching next week, and concentrate on honing computer and baking skills.
Seeing as I cook for him every night, Rich has got rather out of the habit and I fear his natural culinary skills may have abandoned him as I came back from dinner not all that long ago to find Rich wincing on the sofa, and a strange lumpy brown sludge in a bowl on the side. He managed to utter a few words in between grimaces, and it was conduced that he had in my absence attempted to cook for himself. In my opinion, cooking involves carefully selecting the finest ingredients and combining them together with love and stirring occasionally over a gentle flame. Rich had assembled an impulsive feast of mackerel and cottage cheese on Ryvita. The problem being, the cottage cheese which had been lurking next to a bag of very sad spinach for some time had gone off, but poor starving Rich just did not realise until half way through his fishy feast, at which point it was far too late. I would have been sympathetic but Rich then admitted through a further series of grimaces that he was so hungry that he had tried to pick out the mouldy bits of the cottage cheese, and eventually given up and eaten the whole lot.
I think the both of us need to settle back into our genteel routine, of mince based meals and fajita Sundays. I will put my hands up and say all my domestic godessity has slipped somewhat in the last week, but as Rich reminds me as he wakes me up at 7.30 in the morning with a cup of tea (no bacon sandwich I hasten to add, massive hint), “Job hunting is a full time job Lulu”. So in my rare breaks from job hunting, my choice of light entertainment is fort building, reading a great website called Pimp my Snack, where the baking elite make super size versions of their favourite snacks and watching a video on you tube of a dog, called Ultimate Dog Tease which I have shown below, and is food and dog related, so my it seems I haven’t lost my touch for seemless links, as well as photo of mine and Rich’s fort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw
Rich in the fort defending my honour with a foam cricket bat, Jeremy Kyle in the background on TV, my 2 favourite men!
So it seems I have not much to talk about food wise this week, but next week I have lots of very exciting food related interviews so please keep all greasy fingers crossed for me, and we have some asparagus to throw into our Bank Holiday Monday Fajitas! The thought of a Spam fritter meal is spurring me on!
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