Taking A Stand.

I am loving the sound of this rain on my tin roof sick. 

The Universe out of Nowhere Spoke to Me today and Directed me to Bake. I did as I was told.

I re-jiggered a choc chip biscuit recipe and invented the following: 

You cream 110g butter with 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/3 cup castor sugar and a slug of vanilla. Then you add a free range egg, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 cup flour and 1 cup of rolled oats that you have pulverised in your food processor. Add about a handful of white choc chips and a handful of milk chocolate chips and a pinch of maldon sea salt. Bake at 180 degrees for about 10 to 12 minutes. They're like a cross between a common garden variety choc chip arrangement and an Anzac biscuit.

And they are Delicious. Make them. You won't be sorry.

Made some gremolata

to grace the top of my slow cooked osso bucco. Which is a braised veal on the bone dish. In case you're wondering.

Some People sneer at a braise but I'm not one of them.   There's something very comforting about having a casserole that smells delicious slowly bubbling away in the kitchen when it's cold and wet.

And in other Exciting Developments, the Baby has taken to Standing like a Duck to Water. 

Look:

He also takes pretty good photos, like this one of my shoe. Clearly his Talents Know No Bounds.

This is what we looked like a year ago.

 I was going to draw the Fuchsia Jubilee Necklace giveaway today but I might wait til next week. Because the necklace is in training for the Olympics and doesn't want to be given away yet.

I see the Rolling Stones are 50. Remember how much I luffed Keef's autobiography? It was a cracking good read. I like listening to Tumbling Dice when I'm actioning domestic minutiae.

Watching Martha on Silk. She is 100% Fabulous.

xxxxxx