My most epic baking achievement.

Two main achievements come to mind. A long time ago, I quite got into cooking. One Christmas, I achieved a decent Christmas cake to take home to my parents. Although it now looks a little dated in design, I was very proud at the time. I had made the cake mix a few months in advance, which took ages, and then decorated it a few weeks before. It did taste decent, and I think it was around 2003.

My one and only Christmas Cake attempt

I was quite proud of cooking a Chinese meal for Mother’s Day around the same time. I made prawn toast, sweet and sour chicken, cooked meats rice, and noodles. It was pretty good, and I used to have a very handy Chinese cookbook. I also made a decent chicken and baby sweetcorn soup.

A failed attempt at a graphic worth keeping!

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    Have a good one! Should be blinding weather hopefully for this Bank Holiday.

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    In case you are wondering what has happened to the cinema reviews, I have been on holiday for a couple of weeks. Keep an eye out, as more reviews are starting again this weekend… (from May 16th).

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