Culinary delights

This afternoon Oliver was asleep for about three hours!!!! This is miraculous since he NEVER sleeps longer than a 5-minute power nap during the day. So, I celebrated by rushing around the house and doing everything I have ever wanted to do (!) I did the washing up, cut out some squares of fabric (I'm going to start quilting) and... I made some scrummy chocolate fudge brownies.

These brownies are part of my new year's resolution to work on my culinary skills- especially on baking since I never do any- in fact, we never have pudding! How sad. I think I'm pretty much keeping up with my yearly goal- to try out one new recipe a week. So far I've made-

- Spicy curry potatoes- alright but so covered in spices I could hardly taste the potato
- Pizza, including dough- delicious. I even cracked an egg on top, and felt rather fancy!
- Gingerbread men- Really good but very fat and a bit different from ones I'd ever had before... (and Ben burnt the others!)
- Yorkshire puddings- HUGE and yummy!!
- Leeks with cheesy sauce- they were surprisingly good
- Sticky chocolate pudding- we didn't have any steaming equipment so Ben helped me invent a complicated system involving a chopping board on top... and eventually we caved and used the microwave. It kind of worked!!
- and Chocolate fudge brownies- they look good but they haven't cooled yet so I can't really tell

So, nothing tricky at all, but all NEW! Hooray. And I really enjoyed it... I'm VERY gradually becoming a domestic goddess!! :)


Ooh, and he's a token picture of Olly Woo, because he's just so cute! He is clearly amazed by my yummy creations