bigfoodiemama

So the lovely messages started arriving after my hosting of the, post BFM run, lunch on Sunday. Some lovely photos of the KOK's were shared as were photos of the food...we love our food ! My lemon cake went down a treat as always...I am somewhat renowned for it, but I did admit to the girlies that time had been short, so I had used a Betty Crocker lemon icing on my home made Delia Smith All in One cake mixture. I gave due praise to my youngest son for cracking the eggs and placing the mini eggs so perfectly on top and was rightly smug about my efforts for the KOK's first visit. What a lovely day and such lovely messages.....until ! Flyer Maguire had missed lunch as her little munchkin was due to have her tonsils out, so Flyer took her to the zoo ahead of her stressful event. On arriving home that evening, Flyer took to messenger to catch up on all the days activities and happened to say she would have loved a bit of cake...well she tried to but damn autocorrect called it "...

Ok so we lost the big one. On Monday I went out and bought a perfectly shaped, perfectly orange large pumpkin. GASP did the honours, cleaning it out and carving it beautifully. Eldest son was delighted when we lit the wee candle and christened him "Paddy the Pumpkin". All good....until this morning ! Paddy had gone blind in one eye due to an infestation of mould ! Like plastic surgery gone bad, next to collapse was the bridge of his nose but before his whole face caved in we sent him to the compost heap leaving eldest son in tears. Jaysus, I wish I had never started this pumpkin thing. Last night I used pureed pumpkin flesh to make Pumpkin Muffins.....they were crap ! Let's face facts pumpkin is tasteless. The reason you add every spice you can think of and vast quantities of sugar to every pumpkin recipe is to cover the taste of the pumpkin !For you own sake substitute every mention of pumpkin for carrot or sweet potato and life will be alot better. I have promised to bu...