Can Cook, Will Cook

I have had the most absolutely fabulous day learning to cook beautiful food with a beautiful , kind and most generous Frugal Queen. I can't believe she had the patience to put up with all my daft questions and my cack-handed knife skills, but she was utterly brilliant.

We started by making my ambition of a white sauce, well actually a Cheese sauce, and we did it  with a Microwave. Hey, I can "do" microwaving! I have to be totally honest and admit that I didn't realise there was flour in a white sauce. I'm not sure what I did think there was, but it's only 3 ingredients, plus the cheese, of course.

Froogs has all the details of what we made and how we made it on her Blog here, but all in all there was:-

 a huge Lasagne and a Canelloni, with lots of hidden vegetables. I'm trusting all of you not to tell the 'boys'.

Loads of veggies that were very small and disappeared in the sauce.

Large Lasagne & Smaller Canneloni

A Carbonara, which we ate straight away for lunch so didn't get time to take photo, but I can tell you it was gorgeous with we had with salad and dressing.

Two Chicken, Chorizo and vegetable pies, using her method for making pastry here:-

and a beautiful lemon drizzle cake, which also had to be tried straight away. It was very lemony with the lemon curd filling, but Sons don't like buttercream or icing, so I think it will be perfect for them. If I got it right?, I could also do the same cake mix but put some golden syrup with it for a Treacle sponge type cake, aswell.

Froogs garden was lovely and we sat in the summerhouse and on the patio in the sun for coffee breaks which was so peaceful and relaxing. Her DB was just lovely too and very industrious.

I have realised that I do need a few pieces of kitchen equipment before I tackle the recipes on my own. I am now on the lookout for a free/cheap food processor, some family size oven dishs and some enamel pie tins. However, hopefully it won't be too long before I am tooled up and able to show you the results of my efforts, so watch this space!

I also got a close up look at Froogs handmade quilts and they look even more fabulous in real life than on her Blog. A very talented lady.

Thank you ever so much Frugal Queen. Not only have I learnt that I can cook, and I know that I will cook, but you have given excitement for the journey ahead and for that I can never thank you enough.

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good

And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me

Lots of Love Arwedd xx

Food DIary updated.