Irish Foodies Cookalongs have been running for the past 3 or 4 months and each month the spirits have conspired so that I have not been able to participate for one reason or another. Thanks to Yvonne at Hey Pesto! I kind of cheated for the September cookalong – she did the cooking and we did the eating!
I was all set to join in the fun on October 1st which had been nominated ‘twootiefruity’ – the theme being autumnal fruits. We would be tweeting and writing and eating and drinking all the fruits of autumn. Sounds good to me 🙂
The day started off really well – we had Apple and Cinnamon Muffins for breakfast. OK, I will admit that we had run out of bread and these were quicker to make!
Lunch was homegrown tomatoes on home-made bread. All going well so far.
And during the afternoon I even got to make a couple of pots of raspberry jam with lovely golden raspberries.
The menu for dinner was simple but nice – roast pork with apple sauce. Well what else would we be having, except roast pork :). Farmer Alfie wanted to try dipping some of the raspberries in chocolate so he was on dessert duty.
Disaster struck mid afternoon when I suddenly noticed I could not send any emails. Then an hour later I couldn’t receive any emails. I could access the internet, but could not do anything. And, of course, in between all the activity above, I was supposed to be doing some work.
Three hours of trying to figure out what the problem was got me nowhere, but we did have slightly over-cooked pork and I even managed to burn the apple sauce – who would have thought that was possible! Believe me it is!
Dessert was lovely tho! Alfie even tried adding the odd salt crystal to spice up the raspberries – nice in small quantities.
Next cookalong is Friday, 5th November – the theme is winter warmers – here’s hoping I will be more successful!
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