HowZAT!

A really good friend came over to visit the island this weekend! We munched our way through the weekend and journeyed across to St.Martin's to watch the annual Cricket Triangle between the off-islands. We spent the entire afternoon grazing on a baguette dipped in hummus while shoving olives, Dorito's, vintage mature cheddar cheese and various types of quiches down the hatch as well.

Yummy Yummy!

We then walked over to enjoy some locally caught fresh fish with homegrown organic potato chips! What a treat and very very delicious. I was too distracted to even get a picture of our feast however I did manage to take a photo of all the empty plates! Yum!

Fête Day!

Today was a gorgeous day to have a fête! A bit of a breeze and lots and lots of sun! We made quite a lot of money and sold quite a lot of our stock. The crumbles were sold out! Here are some pics...

Scilly lobsters and crabs freshly caught and cooked

Hard at work!

The amazing Polly Money singing

Be my Cherry!

After being inspired by another blog, I decided to make my own cherry cupcakes.. having expanded (er, or contracted) on the idea of a cherry cake.  I diced up a handful of glacé cherries and added them to a vanilla cupcake base. I then iced them trying not to eat all the icing in the process.  They looked delicious and I'm sure they taste just as good.

Mmmm... cappucino

After some hours lying on the beach while taking a couple of snapshots a few weeks back I made a delicious homemade cappucino... mmm

A February Birthday

February was birthday month, not only for me but for a 15 year old too! He's quite into his sport and had recently broken his leg whilst playing a game of rugby at school.  So as I had loads of time on my hands and seeing as a rainy and windy winter was coming to a close I felt like cosying up to my icing and piping bag.  Bring on the rugby theme and after a few hours this is what I created... 

I used ready to roll icing and sugar paste to make the rugby items which I perched on top of Buttercream Icing.. which on second thought I won't try again.  Nothing beats the good ole butter and icing sugar combo! For those of you wanting to try this, I used a piping nozzle #233 to create the super green green grass.  Unfortunately, it took me so long to squeeze the icing out of those tiny little holes that the end bits were starting to melt slightly due to my warm hands (Oh, and I think my Carpal tunnel was kicking in again - it was quite a work out for my hands!) Next time, I'll try using normal icing or just take short breaks in between to ensure I don't have a slightly melted icing. Wahey, even in Winter things melt!