I did my first ever fun run last year, prior to that I couldn’t run for the bus let alone 5km! But I managed to do it (in a combination of mostly running but some walking) in 42 minutes. I’ll be doing it again this year and this year I hope to run all the course and therefore hopefully a bit quicker! If you would like to sponsor me, my sponsor button is in the right hand column or you can visit my website here.
Categories: running
Tagged: Race for Life
I had an excess of bread to use up tonight (brought more than normal over Christmas and my husband, the big bread eater of the household ended up eating chocolate instead of his normal bread snacking), so I decided to make cheese and ham bread and butter pudding (from a distant memory of school cooking lessons). I thought I’d include the recipe is as most of the steps are ok for a pre-schooler to help you with, specially the sandwich making bit (which my 4 year old is obsessed with doing at the moment), although putting the finished dish in the oven is a grown up job!
Please excuse my deliberately vague measurements, I believe in cooking my sight where possible (obviously doesn’t apply to cake and biscuit baking, where there’s more of a chemistry) and I think it’s a useful skill to teach children, that when cooking you don’t always need to measure things and it’s more of a case of preference and what you’ve got in the cupboard! Also obviously scale up according to how many people you’re cooking for and their appetites! But the list of ingredients below are for one mummy (or daddy) and two hungry children.
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8 slices of bread
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3 eggs
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ham (leave out if you want to make this a vegetarian dish)
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cheese
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300 ml milk
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butter
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plus optional flavourings such as mustard, pepper, whatever you fancy!
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Preheat the oven to 180C
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Use the bread and butter to make up some ham and cheese sandwiches, at this point if you like mustard with your ham you could add it here.
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Cut your sandwiches into quarters (triangle shaped).
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Crack open your eggs, now I’m going to say what my Brown Owl (from Brownies) used to say, crack open each egg in a separate bowl one at a time (I use a tea cup really) and then add to whatever you’re cooking, even though I heard the following tale at the tender age of about 7; my Brown Owl when a guide was on cooking duty, they were mixing up whatever they were meant to be mixing up, added all the ingredients and then it came to the final egg, crack into the bowl, it was a rotten egg. Now they’d used up all their ingredients, so couldn’t start again, so continued to cook whatever they were cooking, rotten egg and all, now if they had cracked each egg into a separate bowl before adding it, they’d have realised before it was too late. Anyway the future Brown Owl and her cooking cohorts watched as whatever they had been cooking was eaten around the camp fire that night, but somehow they couldn’t quite bring them to eat it themselves. So courtesy of Brown Owl, I always crack my eggs in a separate bowl / teacup first, I don’t recall finding a rotten egg yet but it does make it easier to get the bits of shell out afterwards! Anyway sorry where was I? Oh yes crack open your eggs and beat together with your milk in a shallow bowl. Dip both sides of your sandwiches in the eggy milk and then arrange in a medium sized baking dish, arranging the quarters sort of like as if you were tiling a roof.
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Once arranged pour the reminder of the eggy milk over your sandwiches then scatter a reasonable amount of grated cheese over the top.
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Stick in the oven for 25 - 30 minutes (remember grown up job) until golden brown and bubbly (I love that phrase).
And for the final taste test? Well my 4 year old liked it, my 2 year old however refused to eat it and sat looking at his sister, who was eating it in disgust. He then demanded dessert so I told him he had to wait for his sister to finish, so he then motioned to say “Go on then, give me that disgusting plate back then,” so I returned the plate and with a severe look of disdain on his face he took a tiny nibble of one corner and then with his mouth wide open said “Mmm delicious!” before letting the food drop out of his mouth, charming!
Categories: cooking · family · food · recipes
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