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Sunday, 30 December 2012

Your favourites and mine from 2012

 It's traditional to have a round up of blog posts for the year and there are a lot to choose from in 2012.  For each month I have chosen the recipe  with the most page views, your favourite, and the one that I like best, my favourite.  I've excluded those posts which had major giveaways as those do rather skew the page views!  Many thanks to all who viewed and/or commented  and to the hosts of all the challenges that I have entered.  

January

Haddock Mornay Leek Bake
Flamiche - Flemish Leek Tart

February


Nigella's Sticky Chocolate Pudding

Slow Cooked Aromatic Pork

March


Tapas Tasting at La Tasca
My first restaurant review at La Tasca in Glasgow

Lemon Meringue Pie

April


Bulgar Wheat Salad

Turkey Saltimboca Piqante

May


Cupcake Decorating Masterclass
A fun day with Jacqueline from Tinned Tomatoes and Claire from A Kiss of Cookies

The Great Macaron Challenge

June

Rhubarb and Ginger Jam
This is the most viewed post of the year with 2612  page views

Diamond Jubilee - 'Elizabeth' Sandwich
We celebrated my mother-in-law's birthday and the Jubilee with a festive tea including this Victoria Sandwich filled with cream and lemon curd which I named an 'Elizabeth' Sandwich.

July


Walnut Brownie Cupcakes

Chocolate and Berry Pavlova

August

 
The Ultimate Chocolate Cake

Mediterranean Fish on Herbed Potato Gratin

September


Paella People
A visit to La Tasca in Glasgow for a demonstration of Paella making proved popular.

Pina Colada Cupcakes and that video!

October


La Tasca Paella de Carne Recipe

Sticky Toffee Pudding Cupcakes for Macmillan Cancer Research

November


 How to Bake Paul Hollywood's Christmas Cake

Who says Vanilla isn't sexy?  Salted Vanilla Chip Oatmeal Cookies
These unassuming cookies have been a huge hit with everyone who has tried them, I gave some to my sister at Christmas and she phoned me up after trying one to ask what was in them and tell me how good they were.

December


Choc-ful Christmas Muffins

Chocolate Orange Pudding

Let's raise a glass to the year gone by and salute the year to come Happy New Year

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Sunday, 12 August 2012

My Jubilee tea published in Simply Homemade!

Do you remember my Jubilee Tea with the 'Elizabeth' Sandwich?  I used some of the free papers and patterns in Simply Homemade magazine to decorate my table and room.  I emailed the magazine with the photos and promptly forgot about it.


Last week I got an email to say that my email and photos would be published in issue 20 of Simply Homemade and that they would be sending me a prize!  I went into town and picked up a copy today.

It was great to see my table and the card I made for my mother-in-law's birthday in the magazine.


My prize books also arrived, the embroidered portraits book is fascinating although I'm not sure my skills are up to the detailed work involved, but I'll definitely be using the Hanging Hearts book which has lots of different hearts and various degrees of difficulty.

It just goes to show, you should send in your letters and photos to the magazines you buy, you just might get published!

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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Diamond Jubilee Cake - 'Elizabeth Sandwich'





It took me a while to get worked up about the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.  However, once I realised that it was the same weekend as my mother-in-law's birthday I was determined to have a Jubilee Tea Party for the family.

The centrepiece of my Jubilee Tea is my 'Elizabeth' Sponge.  It was definitely time to update the Victoria Sponge and what better time to do it than for the Diamond Jubilee. Victoria is the only other monarch who reached 60 years on the throne, so it is fitting that Queen Elizabeth II should have her own cake.

It's quite simple, the cake is a traditional Victoria Sandwich with the additional of the grated rind of a lemon in the mix. The filling is layered lemon curd, whipped cream, raspberries and blueberries, with a 'crown' of piped, whipped cream studded with raspberry and blueberry 'jewels'.

I hope you are having a fun time for the Jubilee, I'll be posting more recipes from my tea party but here is a picture of our table and bunting.



I'm entering this for the Blogging Jubilee Baking Competition at Homemade by Fleur sponsored by Appliance Online

Queen Elizabeth II arriving at the Britannia launch

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