Cooking with Jamie

Jamie has always loved his cooking.  When he is at Nana's they often make pastry biscuits to bring home.  Recently Nana picked up a free recipe book from Anchor butter and while we were out shopping I thought I would buy some ingredients and try and make something with Jamie.

One of the easiest recipes seemed to be for Shortbread so I bought all the ingredients.  However, chatting to Nana as we wandered around Sainsbury's I realised we probably didn't have any of the equipment needed.  It has to be said that I am a stranger in my own kitchen, and to anything remotely connected to cooking.  I have a fridge magnet that says; I only have a kitchen because it came with the house.  Perhaps I should add and it contains the fridge where my wine lives....

So we left Sainsbury's with a full trolley and an empty purse but with lots of new colourful plastic items.  One of these said plastic items was a selection of star cookie cutters.  Unfortunately it did not say on the label Do Not Put In Oven and so I am afraid I put all the lovely mixture into them before putting them into the oven.  Luckily Daddy came home before they had fully melted!!

The kitchen looked like a (flour) bomb had gone off, my wrist (from whisking) and back from sitting at the little table were killing, but Jamie loved it.  He was exhausted and went for a long snooze.  Not sure that all the input was worth the effort really.  Mummy spent ages clearing up and washing up all the new lovely utensils - at least the ones that hadn't melted!!

But, after all that, the biscuits were delicious and probably have done nothing to help with my diet.  Even daddy sent a text today to congratulate me.  Perhaps I might try another one of the 'Easy' recipes!?