Wednesday 23 November 2011

Rediscover Peanut Butter

Most of those who know me know that I am a chocolate lover. A cake lover, an all desserts lover. So I have to talk about my latest secret discovery. A had a day off work, the first one in a long time and after we picked R up from school we decided to go to the local shopping centre, the Harlequin.

We went to buy R's long overdue Eid present, which she had chosen herself from the Argos catalogue. It had been out of stock in all the shops for a few weeks and I finally managed to reserve one and we went to collect it. It is the Moonsand BakeShop. The amazing thing about this is that you can shape the sand with your hands and it moulds into any shape you make. Then when you have finished you just crumble it up again.

While we were strolling along, we stopped at a sweet shop aptly named Sweets from Heaven. This little shop is a treasure trove of sweets absolutely filled from floor to ceiling of every kind of sweets you've ever had, imagined and more! I discovered a Twix bar made with peanut butter chocolate. Instead of the caramel, there is peanut butter and the biscuit is chocolate. It cost £2.50 but worth every mouthful! Another treat that caught my eye and made me feel very nostalgic was a jar of Marshmallow Fluff but I resisted buying it. There was also all kinds of treats like Willy Wonka branded bars, and having recently read the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to R, I could really show her the bar of chocolate that Charlie found a golden ticket inside, as well as the everlasting gobstoppers and other sweets that were mentioned in the story!
The next day in Tesco, I couldn't resist buying a jar of peanut butter!

My new cookbook is coming along really well. It's like a recipe scrapbook which I have put together from a stack of recipes that I've torn out of magazines, ingredient packets, notes from television cooks, supermarket suggestions etc. I've been keeping these cuttings for years in a plastic pocket and now I needed to have a way of being able to retrieve a recipe easily.
I have divided it into 2 sections, desserts and non-desserts. Now I see that I need a subdivision of starters and main courses, and further subdivisions of chicken dishes, vegetable dishes, fish dishes etc. I am even going to index it. I love flicking through the pages of my favourite recipes and getting inspiration from my book.

Today I am baking mini muffins with K. It's my first time baking muffins and his first time baking! When R comes home from school she will be icing them and sprinkling them with her sprinkles and cake decorations. They are for the school cake sale tomorrow. Now K is the ultimate copycat. He repeat every word I say and he sounds like Mickey Mouse! And poor R, she puts up with so much of his copycat behaviour I feel so sorry for her!


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