Life in the fast lane!

It seems that each year flies by faster than the previous one and here we are in 2013! I am not one to make new year resolutions these days as I am not good with dealing with stress! I can do without it and pressures of keeping resolutions only fill me with guilt and a sense of failure if I don't keep them!

So this year, I will just be myself - again and hope that by me doing my best to please - everyone, it will be enough!

This Christmas past, I managed to cook/bake - and eat more than ever from the array of recipes in magazines, cookery books and tv programmes that I have seen. I have come to learn that it is my favourite thing of all to do - cooking and baking that is. It is an art in itself. The product of which disappears fast - which I find is the only disadvantage. However, I can always view it at a future date - on my hips! LOL.

I have lost count of all of the recipes that I used but here are a few - from various cooks/chefs - such as Jamie Oliver, The Hairy Bikers, Nigella, Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry - and Pinterest. Baked ham, a German cake that my mother in law used to make, chocolate and pistachio fudge, marshmallow fudge, tiramisu, strawberry eton mess, cinnamon swirls/buns, tropical fruit salad, ready salted ridge crisps, half dipped in melted chocolate. Yum...and a ton of other goodies!

My family know me well and for Christmas, I received 2 more cookery books - Jamie Oliver's 15 Minute Meals and The Great British Bakeoff book of 2012...and I bought The Hairy Bikers Christmas book that was in the WHSmith sale for £5! Bargain.

Now...all I have to do is find a recipe for Broccoli and Stilton soup to use up the block I still have sitting in my fridge! Anyone for soup?!