(Super Belated) Shopping List Week 8

1.       Tim Tams (dark chocolate mint and white chocolate, on sale!)

2.       Walnuts

3.       Double cream (I bought this to go with my birthday breakfast, since whipped cream wasn’t available)

4.       Mince pies (I wanted to try another supermarket’s version)

5.       Apricots

6.       Bananas

7.       Corn thins

8.       Yoghurt

9.       Spinach

10.   Carrots

11.   Cheese

12.   Parmesan cheese (finally ran out of the acquired cheeses)

13.   Baking soda

14.   Sultanas (for the cake)

15.   Zucchini

16.   Brown sugar

17.   Flour

18.   Rice

19.   Salt (I really should stop pinching from everyone else when I need it for bread)

I started off the week with some tasty leek and potato soup, then tried my hand at yeast pancakes in the morning, because I realized that my milk was close to its expiry date and I thought the pancakes sounded good. They turned out quite well, and were kind of like crumpets because they were thick and moist and not that sweet (at least until I put jam on them). I ate them for breakfast the rest of the week.

For my American birthday I made a yum-yum cake, which is like spicy/brown sugary with sultanas, which was very decadent with the double cream. Here is it in all its modest glory (not too fancy to look at, but really yum-yum and I definitely succumbed).

Then of course there were my lovely birthday meals (the fish and chips and gelato) but I’ve already discussed those at length (although no harm in the fond memories).