Whoa! Its been a crazy two weeks! Where do I even start?!
Well, my mother (who was extremely ill) was hospitalised for two weeks, so, being the eldest around, all duties fell to me. and let me tell ya, being a mother is NOT easy. Add to that hospital runs, and studies, ungodly early mornings, and terrifyingly late nights... Blehh. I've barely had a moment to sit, let alone type up anything. For the first time in my life, I found myself watching Bake Off through half-closed eyes at 3am, thinking, 'when's this gonna end...' and counting down the minutes. Which is sad, because the last two episodes were darn interesting!
On the plus side, having to do majority of the cooking chores means I have heaps of recipes to share. On the negative, I've not had time to bake much. BUT, due to the celebration of Eid, I did make a delicious blueberry cheesecake, and a coffee-chocolate cheesecake, both of which were a hit. So those recipes are going to be coming up. There's also a cucumber, lime, and mint sorbette, which is refreshingly cool and summery, and vanilla Victoria sponge cake slices which looked 'rustic' (think: absolute mess) but tasted yummy. (I finally purchased vanilla bean paste, and let me tell you, the buttercream icing is absolutely DREAMY!) There's chocolate éclairs, a chocolate orange pudding which was delicious, chocolate orange cupcakes which were a disaster, though the mousse topping was delicious... Yeah, I think that's all. But for now, here's me dropping off in front of the screen, so I'm off to bed.
Oh, look! Its only half past one in the morning! An early night for a change. That is surprising!
