Biscuits and dinner

Pretty much all of yesterday I was doing a lot of cooking. I started out first thing with bread, as we were running low and I wanted there to be toast available when the kids crawled out of their pits around midday (well, the new Pokémon game came out yesterday and Somebody had been saving their pocket money, so all-night binge-playing was always going to happen).

While the dough for that was rising, I made some melting moments biscuits. As all my recipe books are still in boxes in the shed since moving in August, I'm limited at the moment to what I can improvise or recipes I find on the net, though I'm hesitant to use up data with research for a simple biccy recipe, so my small repertoire of memorised recipes has to serve. This one was pretty much a whole packet of butter (minus what I kept back for greasing the trays) whipped together with 100g of sugar, crack an egg into it and mix it in then work 250g of flour in (mine is currently from Sibsey Trader Mill). I weighed it into roughly 50g balls and rolled each one round in oats before flattening it a bit on a baking tray. 15 minutes at 180°C and they came out looking like this:

Which went very nicely with our afternoon tea! :)

Then I got started on some badaam ki burfi, which is a traditional Indian sweet and the simplest equivalent I could find to those chocolate barfi I got from Ambala which I can't afford to keep paying delivery charges to buy from them! More about that after I've finished the final stage: chocolate topping!

And then for dinner I just boiled together all the week's leftover veg (swede, pumpkin, carrot and a couple of spuds), mashed that all together with a splash of milk and some seasoning, and we had that with wild boar sausages from Oslinc (I get their 3 packs of sausages for a tenner deal every now and then), then a bit of balsamic glaze just for jolly, and it was a tasty, low fat meal:

The kids had Bill Grundy's pistachio ice-cream (also from Oslinc) but I passed, as my dodgy gallbladder was still complaining from the fat in the biscuits!