This has been the first weekend for about 4 weeks that I have not been racing around, sleeping in trenches or jet setting off to Dublin that I had a weekend to myself, so this weekend I decided that I had to make the most of it, especially Sunday.
Getting up at stupid o'clock to commute to Manchester every day there is somethine really magically in sleeping in.....and quite sad when you get excited about lying in till 8.00am, as it was I managed to sleep in till at least 8:45 :) but then what do you do with the unexpected day to yourself?
Well my Mother has a charidee cake sale tomorrow, so I offered to back something for her to sell. Whilst I love to cook I know that my food would never get onto Masterchief. So a simple bake for a Sunday afternoon.......scones!!!!! Pretty straight forward recipe, that will sit in a processor for a few minutes and then into the oven!
8oz - self-raising flour
1tsp - baking powder
1 1/2 oz - soft butter
1oz - caster sugar
1 - egg
1/4 pint - milk
Mix flour, baking powder and butter, then add sugar and then egg, before mixing in the milk, roll out, cut out, wash with milk....bake.....simples tsk!
Having offered to bake for the charidee it was only fitting that being in the kitchen I stayed there to prepare Sunday lunch.
After a day in the kitchen I remember how much I love cooking, and how much (bank manager willing) I would love to open my own restaurant. Maybe I should get out of law now while I have the chance!
i have always been a morning person, so really to sleep in till 8 is luxury--and once you have kids--sleeping in past 7 seems almost crazy! how great you got to have the day to yourself--and baking scones is even better..now any great music playing while you bake?
ReplyDeleteHi Emily - I love mornings usually and often feel that you loose the best part of the day if you sleep in through the morning although I really appreciate a sleep in occasionally :)
ReplyDeleteMy music taste is so eclectic but whilst in the kitchen I love to listen to Coldplay or Linkin Park.....not necessarily the most tranquil of music :)