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44 times two – cooking Casa Moro

LEFT: 6.5st // RIGHT A+B

Hello. I know it’s been all baking around here lately. That’s been the plan all along. As part of that Alison and I have begun 44 times two again this year. Can you believe it’s been three years since we did it? It’s amazing how much our children have grown since then. Edith has in fact been born and done all her growing up since then.

We will be photographing our ingredients and finished meals while we spend a year cooking together from the wonderful Casa Moro cookbook.

www.44timestwo.com

Important things

I’ve been up late tonight ressurecting an old project. Something that’s coming back to life. Soon. Very soon. Very exciting to be back in blog land. And back with my old friends. It’s like waking up after a long slumber. Waking back up to life and love and living and friends!

And I said I’d reply to comments. I need to reply to comments! At the moment I’m reciprocal visiting and commenting on blogs. I am going to figure out a system. I like the way some people reply to comments in their next post.

Food food food food food. That is my important thing. Along with sewing and the garden and family and work and London. And home. And the Heath. And friends.

My secret hobby is spending hours in the evenings carefully coordinating the amazing supplies for the week from Abel and Cole, Goodness Direct and Ocado. And then when it all arrives I spend my time arranging it. And then I cook it into new recipes and I write these recipes into my moleskine notebook. Or for a really good one into my watercolour paper notepad with my Rotring pen. That’s when I know a recipe is becoming a final recipe.

Final recipes being lined up for the other big project this year. Recipes and photos and writing. And my favourite little Rotring pen. Go this year go!

Cardamom cake recipe to follow now that it’s in the proper notebook…

A swell party

The last time we had a birthday party for the girls was Edith’s first birthday and Astrid’s third. We skipped last year. I’m so tired. I’ve been working weekends and evenings for the last three weeks. Yesterday I baked tarts, cake and cupcakes and today we hosted the party and I’ve been creating an intricate sitemap for work since 7.30pm.

The brilliant news is I’ve perfected the orange blossom and cardamom cake – I even did pink icing for it. The Alsace tart was a winner. Not so much the carrot pie. I’ll work on that recipe.

The girls’ guests had a lovely time at the party. I made party bags for all. They were finished half an hour before the guests arrived at 11am. The face painter came at noon. Kids had lunch then cake at 1pm and everyone left by 2.15pm. Then we went out with my brother’s family for a nice long walk on the Heath and a well earned cup of tea at the caff.

I think ten was the pefect number of children to have at the party. We had enough chairs for everyone including the adults so we didn’t need to call in chair hire! Edith really wasn’t happy near the end – it was all a bit much for everyone I think.

The guests all left happy and I’ve had reports back of children spending the afternoon eating loads of sweets and drawing in their new books, happily leaving their parents in peace for a bit. Happy Birthday girls!! It was a swell party.