Barrow's own survival recipe books...

Hot cross buns...

When the restricitons were first in place I read an article from Italy.  It suggested we were a few steps behind them, both in terms of the suffering and in terms of our response.  It talked a lot about food, about how important it had become to people there, and about how important it would become in our lives.  How right the article was!!

So, the last few days we have had hot cross buns...not looking traditional but tasted pretty OK.

Chocolate choc chip muffins

Next came the standard chocolate choc chip muffins...along with the choc chip griddle scones they made a welcome elevensies today.

My little sister asked for the griddle scone receipe at the weekend. I am just waiting for the photo of the finished product.  They are bound to be a much improved, more artistic version so I await the the very professional photographic evidence that is also bound to follow.  Katy...take this as your hint!

Choc chip griddle scones

My daughter Cathy tried her hand at making pasta sheets (you cannot get them in the shops!)  and was very successful.  She made a very lovely looking lasagne which apparently also tasted rather delicious.  And when we are able to meet up again she has promised to make one for us.  That's good because my wild garlic pasta on Friday was a disaster!!  A large glass of wine fixed it...it doesn't always but on Friday it did the trick!

The pasta sheets as made by
Cathy the midwife

Cathy's finished lasagne with homemade pasta

More bread on the go tonight including some buns for bean burgers...mushed up tinned kidney beans, canneloni beans, chick peas or any others you fancy; fried onion, garlic, and any other very finely chopped veg; herbs and spices of your choice; breadcrumbs and an egg.  Bring it together with a little flour and shape into a patty (or burger) shape.  then gently fry.  I am yet to make mine so any tips and photos gratefully received.  If you haven't made any before why not give it a go?  My children were always so much more likely to eat something they had made themselves, so why not get them involved and let them make burgers!  We would love to see the photos and hear your receipes.  Maybe by the time the restrictions are over we will all have our own family recipe books with our own family versions of lots of receipes.  Barrow's own survival recipe books...great for students to take to university and for young people setting up home for the first time...and also for the rest of us who struggle to know what to make sometimes!

Well Italy was right, definitely in terms of my house, and probably in terms of my workplace, there is quite an emphasis on food!  I think we all may need to do Samuel's exercise video a little more... http://www.womenscommunitymatters.org/online-with-us/ and in the morning the next video will be posted.  A little less energic this time as it is a quiz!  Something to enjoy after the homemade burgers.  Don't forget to tell us who won in your house!

With love, Rebecca and all at WCM xxx