Failed vegetables and choclate brownies

Its finally half term!

I have spent the last few days productively by lying under a duvet watching TV and drinking too much tea! Ah the bliss. :)

Final week at school finally passed with little incident. Wednesday was whole school Eid celebrations... yeah yeah i know... EID was weeks ago.... but we decided to mark EID with an assembly and afternoon of celebrations. I dressed up for the day in traditional costume, complete with scarf, and we learned all about Why Eid is celebrated and all the customs and foods that are eaten. In the afternoon we went to the school hall as a year group and tasted Asian sweets traditional food, and had the opportunity to have Henna done by professional painters. I had my had and wrist painted and I love it. It looks amazing! would love to have had more done, but it had taken 20 mins already!



As for life in huddersfield, Well, I've been going over the scrapings of whats left of my veg patch. I planted root veg so they didn't need looking after while i was away over the summer. Unfortuately the british summer decided to ruin this plan and the wetness meant slug populations reached epidemic propertions, fuelled by most of the veg in my garden!

Last weekend I decided to try and salvage as much as i could of the vegetables. I had planted 2 rows of swedes 2 rows of beetroot, 2 rows of parsnips, a row of spinach and a row of salsify. I have left one row of parsnips, the spinach and salsify in (as they are largely untouched) but here is what i salvaged:
Sad huh?! One and a half swedes and a beetroot. RUBBISH! As i only had one beetroot i decided to experiment slightly and cooked some beetroot and chocolate brownies as inspired by river cottage. Have a look here at the recipe. They were SOOOOOOO good, but i shan't be making them a lot as they have 250g of Butter in! NOw those of you who are unsure quite how much that is, that is a WHOLE PACK OF LURPACK! jeez!

Cooking those also inpired me to cook a bit more... last weekend i also cooked my favourite steak dinner and chocolate fondants for the first time.

This is them before they went in the oven (yes i know there are two... i was fairly sure I'd muck them up, so thought two would be a good idea):

This is the second one out (first looked like a pile of wet brown stuff), with some vanilla icecream on the top. TASTY!!:


SO i feel i have now talked to much about very unhealthy food, and feel the need to get outside. I am thinking about going for a big old bikeride today out to a resevoir I went to a few weeks back for a walk with friends from school and their kids (all very wholesome, children, walking in the woods and feeding ducks!)

Oh and before i go, I know Halloween is a week away but i have bought a pumpkin and cut out a face from it. woo hoo!! here it is:


Would love to hear any name ideas for him... all i've come up with so far is toothy!

BYE!!

INTI x