Claire's Cake Bake & Other Foodiness

We have been back home for a week now. A week of work and it feels like our holiday was a very distant memory. I hate that about holidays.

I was going to post some more about our adventures in Scotland but Hubby posted about it a few days ago.

To be honest, I haven’t cooked anything very exciting this week. I rustled up a tasty pasta bake on Wednesday with a tin of tomatoes, an onion, a green chilli & a clove of garlic – then mixing it through with some par-cooked pasta & mozzarella. Baked for 10 minutes and hey-presto. It was lovely & I quite enjoy it when I just throw stuff together that takes no more than 20 minutes.

Other than that we’ve not had anything exciting really. My enthusiasm has dipped a bit.

But I will get back & up running soon. In fact here is my list of ‘must cook soon’:

• Hot cross buns – after Jules posted her pics a year ago, I’ve been waiting for Easter to come back around!
• Cupcakes & shortbread – it’s sport relief next week so I assume work will want some baking to sell for measly prices! Bah. But I love doing it :)
• Pancetta-wrapped salmon for the new delicious magazine
• Roasted parsnip & Parmesan soup, again from delicious
• Bread – I did make a rather nice chilli loaf a couple of weeks back but didn’t blog it
• Lamb & rosemary burgers from Sarah Ravens book

Tonight I think we’ll be having a creamy chicken & tarragon pie which has featured here at least once with steamed kale & maybe dauphinoise potatoes – something that’s been on my ‘to cook’ list for ages. I had intended on making a chicken & asparagus pie in the week but ended up with asparagus risotto so I may use the last of the asparagus up with a ‘quick’ hollandaise sauce as a started – again a new one for me to try!

I am really keen to kick start my cooking again & I cant wait to move over to my new look blog – Hubby has been busy with things so it had to take a back seat for a while but I promise it is coming soon!!