High Tea

Wow, it's been a busy old day for me today, I don't feel like I've stopped much all morning since I've got plenty to do before my visitors arrive this afternoon.

First of all I'm heading off to the supermarket at 8.30 to get the ingredients I need for my cooking session later and after I've swanned around the aisles for an hour trying to find everything I make it out but not before I hear them announce that they are having a sale on diesel making it the cheapest price I've seen for many a month now. So once I've loaded up the car with the shopping I then fill the car with juice to make the most of the cut prices.

On the way home I nip into town and pick up the other half of what I need (ie non-food stuffs) such as a variety of baking trays and a cake tin with a removable bottom and by 10.30 I'm back home, unloading all the shopping and start cooking my nibblets for later.

I've decided on cooking a whole host of goodies, the first of which is banoffee pie which takes a bit more preparation than the rest of the stuff and once I've done all I can on that I stick it in the fridge and leave it to chill. I then make some dark chocolate and hazelnut muffins which are quick enough for me to make and cook before it's time for us to drop Rupert back over to the vet to see how he's doing.

The vet was very pleased with Ruperts progress, and you can see that Rupert is so much happier today and back to his old self. He gets another jab of antibiotics and also a prescription of special food for a couple of days which will be easy on his tummy and also some antibiotics in the form of pills that I need to shove down his throat for 5 days. Bless him, he didn't even flinch when he had the jab and we weighed him too and it appears he's put on a KG since we've had him so making good progress on that front too.

Back at the house and I continue cooking, finishing off the banoffee pie and then making Caramelised Onion Tartlets with Goats' Cheese and Thyme along with some Savoury Mini Muffins with Two Flavourings (goats' cheese, red onion and rosemary and Gruyere, sage and onion). I tell you something, it's bloody hard work cooking lots of stuff at the same time, not only for the logistics of the matter, but also keeping up with the washing up and keeping counter space clear to actually do stuff on, but I got there in the end, even if I did have to finish stuff off while my guests were here.

We had a really pleasant afternoon though and all enjoyed the food lots, including the rather scrummy carrot cake that was brought along and it was good to catch up with the ladies since I'd not seem them in quite a while.

Posted by Abi on the August 12, 2006 10:05 PM