I'm so sorry I didn't write last weekend but I spent most of Saturday and Sunday talking to the Producer of Radio 4s 'Woman's Hour'. As you know I'm a regular listener, and I had contacted the programme to complain about the way stay-at-home mothers are talked about as 'sat at home mashing bananas'. How very dare they! Needless to say, my comments were picked up straight away and 'Kirsty' telephoned me personally to invite me on to the programme. She made a point of saying how eloquent I was and thought I'd come across very well on Radio 4. I was to broadcast on Monday morning with none other than Jane Garvey! I spent all weekend preparing, strangely though, in the end the call never came. I can only assume that they lost my number...
I used the time to bake some chocolate shortbread, and I must say I think there might be an error with the recipe, or at least with the way it's been written up. I was in a rush so I took the easy option, putting all the ingredients into my Magimix and blasting them. The recipe said the mixture should look like coarse sand after this, which it did. The next instruction was to transfer 'the dough' into the prepared tin. Well, I didn't have dough, I had coarse sand. 'Perhaps I've missed a stage' I thought. 'It must need something wet to bind the sand into a dough. An egg perhaps or some milk?' I read the recipe again but nothing, so I just tipped the mixture into the tin as it was, and put the mention of dough down to an editorial oversight. I think I was right because the shortbread was lovely. I would recommend cutting it into smaller pieces however, as it was rather rich.
Well, the children are off school for the next two weeks and the Latte's will be spending Easter weekend in the Royal Borough of Windsor. We'll be visiting the castle, walking around the Great Park and having some fun at Legoland!
Ta ta, Lucy. x
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