And lastly...

[desperance]

Okay. I have scrubbed grease off the kitchen floor; I have washed pretty much everything that didn't run away (and they came damn' close to it - or at least Mac did, not having sense enough to run away).

I have made the Slow Walking Bread, and a chocolate St Emilion, and a Drunken White Chocolate Fruit Cake which I more or less invented on the run, so we'll just see how that goes. I have not made the lemon cake that I meant to; there is always tomorrow morning, but maybe not...

And that's about it, really, that's the limit of my preparations. I feel ... uncomfortable with this, because I usually cook a lot more for parties, but - well, not this time, is all. I've only invited a limited list anyway, and most of those won't turn up. I don't think people will go hungry. Ham sandwiches and cake: what more could they want?

And now I am pooped. My head hurts, in defiance of all drugs; my back aches, ditto ditto. I think I may just open another bottle of wine, crunch on warm pork scratchings and watch Kill Bill. Both parts. Try to make up my mind if I like it or not.

But not till Lyle Lovett stops his singing. That's the good thing about housework, it comes with a great soundtrack...

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

If they don't make allowances for you being ill, then they don't deserve to be fed at all.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

It'll be fine; it'll be wonderful. Don't worry.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

What is Slow Walking Bread? (Ham sandwiches and cake sounds wonderful, by the way!)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Slow Walking Bread is a Yorkshire tea loaf. It has that name because it's traditionally served at funeral teas. (So is ham, coincidentally.)

It's easy to make. Soak 12oz of dried mixed fruit and peel in 8oz of cold black Indian tea (I use Earl Grey) with 4oz of dark brown sugar. Leave that overnight. Next day, beat in 8oz of self-raising flour and an egg, spoon it into a loaf tin and bake in a low oven for an hour and a half.

For best results, once it's cool, wrap it in foil and keep it for two or three days. Serve thinly sliced and generously buttered. Yum yum.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Thank you -- I'll try making it this weekend.