Lemoncello and sponge

This is just a quick update from me today as Jeff and I had a comparatively quiet night last night. Poor Jeff has been working really hard recently and has had to travel up to London for client meetings (something he hates, as he hates London). I had hoped to meet him at his house after work yesterday, but unfortunately his meetings overran so he wasn’t home until 6:30pm.

We went shopping, got a nice, yet slightly boring dinner of pasta, pesto, bacon, crème freche and cheese and just chilled. We also turned the eggs (I can’t believe it’s currently day 5!) and marked it off on our egg chart.

The most interesting thing we did yesterday was eat pudding – this was a birthday present from one of my friends, however as I hadn’t managed to see her until a couple of weeks ago, she gave it to me then, despite my birthday being in January. Basically, it was sponge pieces in Lemoncello – the Italian lemon vodka / liquor. She told me that the shop keeper had told her that it was nice with double cream, so at the weekend Jeff and I had bought some double cream in the farm shop, however hadn’t got round to eating it before last night.

They were ... interesting. You could really taste the alcohol and to be honest, I thought it was rather overpowering. Jeff seemed to like them though and had the ones I couldn’t finish. Would we have it again? Probably not, but it was different and it’s always good to try different things. One thing to mention – our sausage rolls went down really well with our respective work colleagues – both sets were demolished before lunch time which I guess is a testament to what good cooks we are :-)

This Saturday Jeff and I are off to London for a classical concert and I think we’re both looking forward to it immensely. It does seem like things are getting a little bit too busy for my liking – insomuch as, I’m not able to just relax and chill, I’m always doing stuff – I guess I only have myself to blame! One nice thing is that Jeff and I have a weekend together in 2 weeks time – that’s the weekend the chicks should hatch! We’re not going to do very much as we have to be near Jeff’s house so I think we’ll use it to cook, bake and generally enjoy each others company.

I can’t believe we’re going to be chicken parents in less than 3 weeks!

- Molly

Our new pet!

Firstly - Jeff and I have started a new blog

http://mollyandjeff-hatchingchicks.blogspot.com/

Yes, we're hatching chickens! (well, trying to) and we're hoping to start this Sunday - I was hoping my incubator would have arrived today, but sadly there was no missed delivery notice by the Postman when I got home. Bummer! As the eggs should arrive tomorrow, I'm really hoping that the incubator also arrives tomorrow....

However, look what Jeff found tonight when he went into his shed to feed the birds! a tiny little mouse! Jeff had tried to plug up all the holes in his shed as he's had holes in the bird seed bag before, so assumed something had been trying to get to the seed - looks like he found the culprit! I haven't seen Jeff today, so haven't seen the mouse firsthand, but it does look rather cute :-)

We're seeing each other tomorrow night - sadly I'm not staying the night as I have to take my cat to the cattery on Thursday morning as we're off to the BBC Good Food show at the weekend and I want to make sure he's looked after properly.... still, I'm sure Jeff and I will spend a nice few hours together :-)

- Molly