Our good friends Janet and Ron came to spend the day with us; since the weather has been so atrocious and everything is sodden we went for a walk along the seafront and I took my camera. The light wasn’t very good so I didn’t take any photos but it was a pleasant late walk and then into town for Janet to by a cake tester (you know, the sort of thing to stick in a cake to see if it’s done)
Home and time to get the dinner ready, Moroccan lamb again… it was so good last time it was well worth a repeat, with barley couscous and green salad. I had found a recipe in The Telegraph for desert, a spice cake with whole pears sticking up out of it like baby birds from a nest.
Janet is such a dear friend and when she asked if there was anything she could do to help, I set her to make the cake!! She was a cookery teacher before she retired so she is an expert after all, and she judges cakes and jams at the local village fête!
I did the donkey work, coring the pears, finding the ingredients and getting the garnish ready for the lamb (preserved lemons, toasted almonds, chopped mint and coriander… delicious!) The cake was soon ready to go in the oven and it looked so lovely I grabbed the camera and took a photo of it and Janet… well, you read the title of this blog, didn’t you?!!
Lois Elsden 
I’m sure it looked and smelled and tasted absolutely gorgeous!
🙂
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It did actually, flavoured with vanilla and nutmeg! Did you have a good time in Dublin?
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Yum! Well, I suppose you’ll have to do what we had to do in the old days: remember it! (I find that often it is nicer to have to rely on memory. It allows us to make things even nicer than they were, and sometimes that is better than looking at a photo!)
sometimes I’m really stoked that my ‘fancy’ camera has two memory card slots… one of them always has a card in it. 🙂
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I agree about memory, sometimes i deliberately don’t take my camera because I want to ‘learn’ things if you know what I mean!
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