Hey Blog! This week I\u2019ve done some cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cooking is fun. You get a lot of satisfaction from turning a whole load of ingredients into a delicious dish, and it isn\u2019t too hard. Anyone who has a cooker, an oven, pots and pans, and some food, can do cooking, or even baking. Here is the cooking I\u2019ve done this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday I went to Scouts. I\u2019ve talked about Scouts before, but this time was a cooking session. The troops in the district are all sending one team from each troop to take part in a \u201cReady, steady, cook\u201d competition this year, so Tuesday was the first stage of the competition to get in the main event. We had planned in advance, on zoom, but this was the real cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We decided to make our starter. This was planned to be fried halloumi with sweet chilli sauce, with cucumber for decoration. I had practised making it at home to go with dinner that night (homemade tortillas with veg, halloumi, and the sweet chilli sauce) and it was delicious, but one of the ingredients is sugar, and something very interesting happens when you cook sugar for too long (interesting if you\u2019re a toffee apple, that is\u2026) – yep, we overcooked it at Scouts, and it turned into \u2018Scout style\u2019 Sweet Chilli Toffee. Chilli chocolate is wonderful, but no one\u2019s ever marketed chilli toffee \u2013 hmmm, I wonder why?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The halloumi was excellent, except for the first few seconds when we didn\u2019t have oil in the pan, and it began to burn and stick. But that was soon solved, albeit by borrowing someone else\u2019s oil, and with some heating up of the sauce just before we served it, it was just soft enough for the judges to eat, and spicy enough to set their mouths on fire! We did not win the competition (that went to the team cooking a dish of bangers and mash) but we all had fun, and we all did well. Good luck to the winners who are going on to represent our troop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have also done some baking this week. Over the winter we have developed a liking for \u201cDaddy g\u00fc pots\u201d, homemade g\u00fc pots made with shortbread, chocolate, cream, rum-soaked raisins, and a sprinkle of cinnamon, baked in the oven or the microwave, and served hot or cold (I prefer hot). We had cream, rum, raisins, cinnamon, and chocolate, but no shortbread, so I decided to bake some to make g\u00fc pots with. We used the simple 321 shortbread way, with 3 of flour, 2 of butter, and 1 of sugar.\u00a0 You can use any amount for a unit, just so long as you keep the ratio the same. These are really tasty, and served well in the g\u00fc pots. I always feel that homemade food is nicer, most likely because you put love and time in it, and it is given to someone that cares for the love and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone can decide to do some cooking or baking, and if you care about what you are making, the food will taste even better! Have fun, and I hope you make something YUM!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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