Thursday, 17 April 2014

Birthdays, baking and blogging from an ipad

This is my first attempt at blogging from my iPad, partly due to me being lazy and not wanting the hassle of uploading my photos to my laptop. There's an obvious time lag between typing the word to it appearing on the screen, which is slightly annoying, but I'm going to preserve with it and see how it goes.

It's currently the Easter holidays which means I have two weeks off work - hooray! And I seemed to have crammed quite a lot in so far. On Monday it was my lovely girlfriend's birthday so I spent the day making her feel like a princess and eating cake - yum. I made this carrot and courgette cake from the Good Food website as it's her favourite (and this is the point where I discover that there's no option to add a photo from my iPad - or if there is, I can't find it so will have to do some research...):



Tuesday was spent in the garden - cutting the grass, weeding and all the usual jobs that we dash to do at the first hint of sunshine. We also bought a cherry tree which we plan to plant together on Friday.

Then yesterday I painted the bathroom and bedroom ceilings. I should have done it when I decorated the rooms but as my leaky roof needed replacing it didn't seem like a wise choice (especially when I woke up mid-winter to a dripping sound, only to discover that my loft was full of snow which was melting - thankfully the insulation soaked up most of the moisture but the ceilings didn't completely escape). But after a long day of painting and discovering the day later that I had muscles that I didn't know I had, the job is now complete. Two ceilings down, two to go - although they can wait until the summer holidays!

Today has been a tidying up and feeling very tired day. I haven't pushed myself to do too much and have just pottered around the house. I made myself this lush veggie pizza for tea:


I made the dough in the bread maker and topped it with tomato purée, frozen mushrooms, peppers and sweetcorn with a sprinkle of mozzarella on top - delicious!


2 comments:

  1. I know exactly what you mean from making the recipe, taking pictures and then loading and blogging - that is why I don't blog about weekly meals or what i have cooked on that day, as I can't do it anymore. The Courgette Carrot cake looks lush, especially loving your topping.

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    1. Yes it can get a little fiddly at times. I really admire those who blog and update photos daily, I just don't have the time. Oooh the cake is delicious - you should try it. It's very moist and moreish. I do find that I have to cook it for 5 minutes more than the recipe suggests though, but maybe that's just my oven.

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