DinDins :D

My cake went well! That certainly perked up my day

Before icing:

And after!

My sister and I couldn’t resist sharing a tiny slice :p It was so good!!

 I also had a hot chocolate around the same time – these are a frequent occurance, usually at least twice a day, so I’ll refrain from posting the same picture over and over…

But I had totally killed my appetite for dinner! AGAIN!

This morning though, in an amazing stroke of genius, I found some frozen egg noodles, so I defrosted them and some prawns for dinner tonight:

I also cut up a whole bunch of kabocha and acorn squash with some parsnip, and roasted it all together with some cinnamon and garlic in the oven – check out the cinnamony goodness

But just that stuff paired together does not an aspiring blogger’s meal make! So a sauce was called for. I felt in a soy saucy mood again (though when am I not?? I seriously need to find some new flavours! Anyone have any good flavour/sauce combinations?) I rumaged in the cupboard a bit, and came up with a mix:

• soy sauce
• worcester sauce
• walnut oil
• pepper
• cinnamon
• agave nectar
• thinly sliced garlic

That green teaspoon at the front is AMAZING! It came in a set (about 6 spoons, ranging from 1/4tsp measures to a full tbsp) and they’re all magnetic and stick together so they never get lost in the drawer – GENIUS! My gran was a smart one this Christmas

So anyway, I heated through the prawns a bit, in all the sauces etc and a bit of water

and then added my noodles

while they were cooking, I was admiring my amazingly large recipe book collection!

And that’s not even all of them..there is more behind them! I seem to be addicted to buying them cheap from charity shops (only about £2.99 a book) and cooking about one recipe (after bookmarking hundreds that I WILL cook…!), then forgetting about them! I just love reading recipe books to be honest..:)

Anyways! So I then added some flour to thicken the sauce up a bit, and then threw in all my cooked squash and parsnip. My dinner:

I enjoyed all that (and I emphasise my enjoyment – it was delicious!) on a tray watching ER anyone else love that show?

I think I’m going to finally attempt some lab report now, before settling down to the new issues of Vogue and Zest magazines (and quite possibly some ice cream too )

Have a great evening everyone!!