World of Mildew

Toffee cracknel

Mildew — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:43:43 +0000

As the summer holidays near to an end and everyone’s bordering on boredom, here’s something to get children into the kitchen. This simple recipe came from Dave’s mum who used to work as a dinner lady in one of the primary schools in Enfield and this is one of the kitchen’s recipe. I’m sure I didn’t have anything like this in my school, not fair. The title isn’t wholly descriptive of the final product. This is chewy, sticky, really not very good for you at all, but totally delicious and very, very more-ish.

First of all, you need to melt golden syrup and butter in a big heavy pan. You can practicially feel your heart groan at the sight of this deliciousness.

Add milk powder and cocca powder and give it a good stir to get rid of any lumps.

Then add your cornflakes. The sauce goes a long, long way and you need more flakes than you think you do. It’s quite an effort to give everything a big stir after a while, but persevere. You want every flake to be covered in gooey gorgeousness. After that, add everything to a tin and let it set. Alternatively, add the mixture to some cupcake cases for perfect party food.

Easy as pie and goes very nicely with a cup of tea.

You Need:

6oz Cornflakes (although it’s probably more. When you’re adding it to the mixture, add it bit by bit and see how you go)

1oz Cocoa powder

8oz Golden syrup

3½oz Butter

6oz milk powder

Write About Love

Mildew — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:34:44 +0000

Hooray, one of my favourite bands, Belle and Sebastian are back with a new album in October. Can’t wait for it, the teaser sounds great.

Legs

Mildew — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:05:21 +0000

Found just off Bethnal Green road

Buddleia

Mildew — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:01:05 +0000

Dave bought a new camera last week and I’ve been playing around with it a lot (more on that later). I like it it so much that I’ve been buying cheap manual lenses off Ebay to experiment with. Above is one of my test shots with my manual 50mm prime. Came out not too shabby.

Shopping picks: handy apron

Mildew — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:32:38 +0000

Clever designers SUCK UK have come up with the most useful item for cooks. This apron as all the conversion charts, roasting and boiling times you could ever need while in the kitchen. As someone who uses a lot of American recipies, I always have to fire up the laptop to see how much a stick of butter weights or what 450°F is in Celsius and now I can keep keep my dresses and laptop completely food free. Hurrah. You can buy it here.

Barry

Mildew — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:23:48 +0000

This is Barry. He’s my first ever car. I never thought I could love a Ford Focus, but I do love Barry. I’ve not actually passed my driving test yet, but I can’t wait to take it out on a road trip. I think I promised my sisters we’d go to Wales.

Driving’s hard though isn’t it?

Baby tomatoes

Mildew — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:05:49 +0000

The cherry tomatoes in the hanging basket are coming along nicely (all three of them!) Looks like this could be the first successful year of growing tomatoes (even if it is just three), I’ve never had much luck with them before.

Autumn is almost here..

Mildew — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:03:57 +0000

Shallot

Mildew — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:21:59 +0000

Shallots are almost ready to harvest. Can’t wait to get them out of the ground, pop them in a tray with garlic and roast them slowly. Yum.

Photo

Mildew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:59:19 +0000

I need to take more photos. I think I’m becoming a better photgrapher, but I’m just not practicing enough. A while back I attempted Project 365, where a photo everyday is taken. This proved too much commitment (getting married and being lazy got in the way) and when I started this blog started a photo almost every day tag, but that fell by the wayside too (and so did the rest of the blog. Lazy again. My bad). It’s all a huge shame, because I love taking photos.

Above is my 4000th upload to my Flickr account (it’s the roof of Liverpool St. Station in case you’re interested) and the re-start of taking photos more regulary. It’s recess at work so I have some time off soon (a whole five weeks! Wheee!) and I am determinded to get off my fat arse and be much more creative and a lot less lazy this summer. This all starts now. Wish me luck. I’m going to need it.