Salmon fishcakes

So it took me several hours to make these - in between cooking the salmon and the mashed potato, chopping the parsley, shaping the cakes, etc, I was running after a grumpy / hungry / tired Jake.  I usually wait till he's napping to start cooking, but I think he's dropping down to one nap a day now and I just decided that I needed to break out of that habit.  Anyway, they came out great!  My first ever fishcakes.  I adapted a recipe from the cbeebies show "i can cook".

Hope he likes them better than the scones!

Edit: Yay, he liked them!!  They are also rather tasty with hummus.

Vegan Scones

I don't know why, but I don't feel quite like a proper Mum unless I'm baking something.  I'm hoping it has something to do with the deeply satisfying feeling of making something yummy from scratch with your own hands, and nothing to do with any outdated notions of motherhood. 

It had been at least a week since my last baking episode, so I made some vegan scones today.  Although I am not vegan anymore, Mr P still is, so there's more chance of food being eaten if it's vegan.  Surprisingly, I found a recipe on the BBC Food website, which even has a vegan baking section. 

I rolled my dough out a little too thin so they didn't rise very much, but they are still yummy!  Not bad for my first ever scones.

Of course the acid test is always whether Jake will like it.  We'll find out when he wakes up from his nap.

Edit: It is a tad disappointing when your child spits out and makes a face at something you've made, not once, but three times!  Never mind.  He might like them tomorrow! ;-)

Autumn in Hyde Park

My lil pixie child

Enjoying some toast...(and hoping we can go home soon)

Smiling from his hospital bed

I finally made a rubber stamp!!!

It's only taken me about two years to finally get down to it!

Carved out of a rubber eraser with lino cutting tools. Inspired by and learned from Geninne.

Going dotty at the Hayward Gallery