Happy Weekend!

 Last week my diet went out the window because I made pancakes.

One of the kids had bought some cream that was due to expire and so he got it cheap and of course I had to make pancakes. Cream and jam. So good.

Weekends are a hotch-potch for me. A time to visit family. A time to just recover from the days I work A time to see if there's anything good on the telly and pass a few hours or read a book.

A time to get out the notebooks and the journals and plan the week ahead.

Appointments. Visits to family in a rest home. The day job. Planning menus for the week ahead so I know what I'm cooking or what anyone else in the fam is cooking. I honestly like cooking which is why I go overboard at Christmas because I just want to make EVERYTHING. So much good food to make and recipes to drool over. However, this year I sadly had to draw the line at a gingerbread house even though I'd been planning it and had recipes and so on. I'd never made one but then I thought, no. Too much food with the trifle and the puddings and the breads and the mince pies and all the other food I was so looking forward to making. Looking at recipes is a happy place for me. 

However, I did make gingerbread biscuits in lieu. Stars and trees, if you wonder what the pictures are meant to be!

~ Maddie.



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