I was thinking the other day about how can I share how my week’s gone, did it go well? were there any disasters that I really need to work on (yep there was!), so thought about weekly highlights….so here it goes, it’s Friday 1st November and this is how the past week has gone…..

So what didn’t go so well – Millionaires shortbread these really were tasty, however the caramel ended up soaking into the shortbread and became a bit too sticky at the bottom.  They still went down so well, but need to focus on the consistency of the caramel – the flavour was perfect so I can’t change that.

Then there were my Caramelised apple and cinnamon muffins they tasted great, the apple and cinnamon worked so well – great comination, but they didn’t really rise as much as I liked….think I will try putting the cases in muffin tins to give them support…

For lunch on Monday, my daughter wanted chicken savoury rice, I was about to use the packet that I had in my cupboard and thought “how easy would it be to recreate this?” so I had a quick look at the ingredients and came up with this…Savoury chicken flavoured rice – OMG I was so surprised with myself, that I then went on to make a Mexican rice which my son then had for dinner.  I won’t be buying the packets again, these were just delicious.

Last week I made Madras lamb, potato and spinach curry and imagined how great it would be with with chicken!  so for our mid-week fakeaway I had a go and oh god, this Chicken and potato balti was delicious and 4 empty plates later, what a success.  There was some sauce left in the pan, which the kids kept dipping left over poppadoms into.  Will definitely have this again.

Knowing I heading for a very busy day, I made this Chilli con carni in the slow cooker, with some cheesy nacho’s (simply nacho’s, topped with grated cheddar and grilled until melted) on the side – was delicious.

Have a great weekend….

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