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Baking Pretzels

5/7/2020

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Yesterday I made pretzels for the first time.

Yes, I know, some are submarines and the pretzel holes are far from defined, but they tasted perfect. Yum yum! One more from the buns of the world baking book!
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 This is my last Lockdown diary style post. I feel like all that's missing from 'before' is the social distancing, the 2m rule still being advised. It's feeling doubly like the end of lockdown as I'm working again, albeit returning from mat leave, and only upstairs in the spare room, but still, feels like a new beginning.

​Honestly, on meeting friends, once we got over the initial 'can't hug hello', a walk or a cuppa continues as normal, especially now we're allowed indoors. Still waiting for the cinemas to re-open, personally, but it's not bothering me much at all nowadays. Hope you're feeling similarly!

My final wellbeing lockdown challenge looked like this yesterday...

Something for me: Online Zumba class
Something to make someone else smile: Pretzels for friends and neighbours
Productivity: The pretzels - they took forever to make!

Lou x
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Fresh Cherry Scones

30/6/2020

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Today I picked some wild cherries and made scones with them. 

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The local fruit trees are just coming into season, but I'd never noticed the cherries before. I picked exactly one cup's worth too, on a whim, and that's exactly what I needed for a recipe I found later that afternoon. 

I have never baked (or indeed, tasted) cherry scones with fresh fruit before, but these are YUMMY. The dough was really wet, which made rolling it out and using a cutter impossible, but I 'blobbed it' on a baking tray and they came out pretty well. 

Ooh look, it's time for afternoon snack. 

​Lou x

Lockdown Wellbeing:

Productivity: See above
Make myself happy: Enjoyed having a coffee in the garden with my brother this afternoon. 
Made someone else smile: I delivered a chococlate cake to my very pregnant friend. 

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Treble Bake Day

3/6/2020

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This morning I baked bread rolls, carrot cake and cherry buns.

Something possessed me and I couldn't turn the oven off. I've just kept going since Sundays major charity bake, it seems!!

The rolls are linseed and oat (for tea), the buns are almond sponge with cherries for decoration (reminds me of my grandma), and the carrot cake is egg free - vegan, actually - as my baby can't eat egg. 

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​So there's my productivity ticked off for today...
For myself... I participated in a weekly quiz my mum friends and I do, and I won, even with the theme of TV! I don't watch much so I wasnt hopeful, but yay!
And to make someone else smile, Rox and I played for ages with the Paw Patrol sit-on car we have, making the lights flash, the sounds blare, and riding on top. Love her laugh!!

Lou x
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Cupcakes for Alzheimer's Society

2/6/2020

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On Sunday I baked 66 cupcakes to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society on their Cupcake Day fundraiser.

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I promised you photos!

My kind friends and family helped me to raise £175 for this worthy cause. It was exhausting and delivering them all in Bristol took some time, but I really enjoyed it. I have a feeling my home baking business 280 Bakes will be back this year! 

Thank you again to all who donated xxx

Lou x
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Chequerboard Cookies

1/6/2020

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These chequerboard cookies took more time than standard cookies, but they were worth it!

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The recipe was massive, so I batched up half of them and posted them to a friend's parents who needed a hug in the post. Hopefully they arrived in one piece!

Productivity - boom!
Making someone smile - I walked the neighbour's dog because he's sick.
Something for me - I sat down and read a huge chunk of my current book, Freakonomics. 

Lou x
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Trifle Time

23/5/2020

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I've never made a trifle before, so today's pudding was a dessert to remember. 

It got off to a bad start when Lidl, our local supermarket, didn't  have plain Madeira cake (only chocolate and vanilla marble, but yum!) and no ameretti biscuits. 

I cheated quite a lot, in that I didn't make a syrup (lazy and cutting down on sugar intake), made jelly using a packet, and the biscuits on top were chocolate covered digestives. My dad says that's not a trifle, but it tasted pretty damn good! And he didn't get a bite as we're in lockdown, so... neerrrrrrr!!

Productive thing for today - tick!

Lou x
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Camomile Cookies

21/5/2020

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A new recipe today...

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I found an old cookie recipe book and am baking with renewed enthusiasm! These are camomile tea cookies, and soooooo tasty. 

At least, I think they're camomile flavoured. I took a punt on the teabags type, they smelled about right but weren't labelled... 

Either way they taste amazing!

Lou x

Recipe here:

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Chinese Coconut Buns

12/5/2020

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Remember I'm working through my Buns of the World recipe book? Well, today it was the turn of Chinese Coconut Buns.

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And, hey, they are delicious. They're a sweet bun containing icing sugar, desicated coconut, and two eggs. Sorry baby, another one you can't nibble, Miss Egg Allergic! 

I could eat the whole batch. I won't. I shouldn't.

Productivity today: See above!!!
Thing to make me happy: I started season 3 of This Is Us. Love it.
Something to make someone smile: Rox was introduced to bubbles today, we went through two tubes with a giant wand, fun!

Lou x

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Naan Breads

11/5/2020

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We're isolating here, as part of my recovery from appendicitis, so when we needed naan bread, I knew it was time to try baking it!

Productive activity - check! And they were so yummy and easy to make - recipe here. 

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Something for myself - I painted my toenails. Glam or what.

Something to make someone smile - Played Big Bang Theory Monopoly with El Husbandio, and he won. Twice. I didn't do it on purpose but he loves to win!!

Lou x
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Family favourite: Bread buns

7/5/2020

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During lockdown I've been working my way through my bread recipe book and have found our favourite bread buns. 

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My husband likes white, sweet, soft bread, forever complaining about soda, rye, and sliced shop bread. My 10 month old has just two teeth so can't chew crusts etc. I just like bread. 

Finally, I've found one that suits us all! The recipe technically wasn't printed in the recipe book I'm working through during lockdown, but was a news clipping from 1998 (!!) I'd stashed inside. What a find! 

Try it yourself, here's the recipe... I made eight buns (15 mins cooking) with this, but a loaf works well too. 

Lou x

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