Non sewing creativity

Why is it that whilst I am not allowed to eat (I can only have my special liquid diet bottles) I want to cook? OK - so I have been diagnosed with Crohn's Disease - I have an urgent hospital procedure on Tuesday - Yuck!!

Anyway yesterday  I  made Gingerbread Latte Fudge, Black Forest Fudge and then some plain coffee fudge making up my own recipe!!

The first two are from a lovely book, which goes with the recent TV series - Sweets Made Simple (starring Hope and Greenwood).

Today, once I have finished cleaning the house, I hope to get back to my next Zentagle Doors piece.

Bank Holiday - non embroidery stuff !

Having aborted plans to go out for the day - have been baking, watching the wonders of nature and performing the annual hair cut on the lavender....
Lavender ..

Before photo.  There are twice the number of bunches than last year!

After - I can get to the back gate again !

 Watching nature - can you see the thin, long legged spider on the left?  Well that killed and started to wrap the bigger, fatter spider on the right (happened on my hall floor before I set to with the vacuum !

Baking!! a bit of morning madness - cinnamon swirls (minus the raisins as I did not have any) - got a little browner than I had planned but I think will taste ok. 

 Then back left - Parmesan cheese and sun dried tomato loaf, middle is onion, olive and chive loaf, right is cheese and celery loaf and at the front oat and linseed rolls.

 You need very strong teeth for the rolls - not  something I am good at  - but the bread - WELL - IT's AWESOMELY TASTY!!!!

Now its back to sewing as I have a lot of work to do.  I have made the White Rabbit although he looks more like a mad hare or mouse!! When I have finished his jacket will show you in the next post.

Creative again - but not textiles

Further to the blog post dated 16 Feb  - Bored (click here) well I am very pleased to say I am feeling much better and I have received the beautiful fabric from Annett - much too beautiful to use - each piece is labelled with the fibre content and what the piece was dyed with.  Beautiful.

I also received the lovely bread book from Gina. I have read my way through lots of the recipes and thought I should start at the beginning and work my way through as they all sound wonderful.  However, being me today I decided to try one that sounded just delicious - Bacon and Cheese bread - wow.....  OK although I followed the recipe exactly it has come out a little dense but OH OH so tasty - fresh from the oven, still warm with butter - heaven..

Whilst in the baking mode I found a packet of Roasted Red Onion and Balsamic vinegar bread by James Martin - this is a bit quick to make being a packet but again OH OH so tasty straight from the oven.  

Perhaps I should by a bread maker - or maybe I will borrow Mums first and see if it works better than hand making bread.