Esther’s prompt this week. Sweet or Savory?

Posted on February 19, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bereavement, blood sugar, Cake, diabetes, Eating, Esther's prompt, Food, savory, Sugar, Sweets, Time1 Comment

This is what I wrote :

I’m having trouble with diabetes because of my love of that sweet stuff called sugar.
I was sad and upset because of a bereavement and found sweets and cakes became my comfort. Instead of the occasional cake I became obsessed with buying myself boxes of chocolates, or sweet pastries or cream cakes almost every day.
Meanwhile I stopped eating as many savory things. I’m not eating enough vegetables and this has impacted my blood chemistry. So the point I want to make is don’t eat sugary stuff to excess and try not to get addicted to it. I’m trying to be good now…

Carrot cake with pouring cream.

Posted on January 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged afternoon tea, Cafe, Cake, carrot cake, Food, pouring cream, Sister, Treat, Trentham Gardens3 Comments

Last week I went to Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent. This cake was a bit blurry but nice. The cream calmed the sweetness of the carrot cake down. We had intended to have sandwiches and salad. But when we got to the cafe it was a bit too late to get anything savoury.

It was nice to get out of the house and go for afternoon tea with my sister a few days ago. I’ve been ill for a few weeks now, I’m OK one day, then I’m shattered the next, so I really enjoyed the trip out.

Carrot cake seems to have become a British classic along with fruit scones and banana bread. Others include black forest gateau and Victoria sponge. All of them are real treats.

Peony tree

Posted on May 2, 2024May 2, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cake, Falling, Garden, Idea, Ivy, peony plant, peony tree, Thinking, Time, walking stick2 Comments

I’d love to have one of these, I have normal peony plants, but this is a shrub with bright yellow, flowers. Maybe I will treat myself to one as an early birthday present. I need to maintain my garden but it’s not easy to look after. It’s on a slope and the ivy is taking over, great ground cover but it’s smothering other plants. I need to do some serious pruning if I have the strength. What’s putting me off? I’m scared of slipping and falling. I always take a walking stick out there now to give me a bit more stability. I might offer friends a gardening and cake day to get some work done? Is that a good idea. I don’t know.

Cake

Posted on September 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cake, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2061, Food, marble cake, Prompt, Sugar, Sweetner, Tasty, Victoria sponge6 Comments

What are your favorite types of foods?

I am not allowed much of this delectable delicacy. But it has to be my favourite. I usually say trifle but that’s like a squidgy layered cake. I like individual cakes, chocolate éclairs, apple turnovers, Eccles cakes.

I could list more. I can make a good Victoria sponge, but I would use sweetener instead of sugar to try and make it healthier. I sometimes make marbled cake, that’s where you make the cake batter up then add cocoa or chocolate to half of it. You then gently stir the two halves together so that the colours mingle but don’t mix. When it’s cooked you can see a pattern of marbling in it.

To be honest I didn’t know I knew so much about cake, but it’s not an obsession. I just enjoy it as a treat.

Down the Rabbit hole

Posted on January 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged afternoon tea, Cake, Cup and saucer, Food, Life, rabbit hole tea room, sandwiches, Scones, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, TeaLeave a comment

My friend reminded me today that two years ago we were having afternoon tea at the Rabbit hole tea room in Stoke. We had a lovely meal of sandwiches, scones and cakes and tea in porcelain tea cups and saucers. We had to book a table in advance. Obviously it was closed during lock-down but I believe it is open again now. It was a charming place and suitable for families having birthday parties. I hope it does well despite the cost of living crisis.

Tea at the Rabbit Hole Tearoom.

Posted on January 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cake, Fruit, Photo, Scones, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Tasty, Tea, Teapot, Tearoom, the rabbit holeLeave a comment

A good memory from a few years ago. Having tea with friends at the Rabbit Hole Tearoom in Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent.

We had been looking for somewhere different to visit and we had a friend coming down from Yorkshire. I had to book in advance but it was worth it. My memory is of a themed Tearoom around the Alice in Wonderland stories, with the white rabbit, mad hatter, dormouse and Queen of Hearts. The tea was lovely, cakes, scones, sandwiches, fruit. A pot of tea each.

It was a family themed Tearoom and it was very full. No social distancing in those pre covid days. I wish I could go back in time. Remembering those days is getting harder. But seeing old photos like this help to reassure me that things might one day be better. One day. When we can I hope this Tearoom will still be open.

Non diabetic food?

Posted on September 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged biscuits, Cake, cheesecake, Food, fruit flavours, Fun, gherkins, Humour, kefir, stollen, sugars, yoghurtLeave a comment

What part of this food is safe to eat if you are diabetic?

A large size pizza ( carbs)

Two packets of mini butter stollen cakes (dusted with icing sugar)

Four large potato’s (carbs)

Three tubs of butter

Cheese

A box of mini blueberry muffins,

Two large tubs of fruit flavoured kefir fermented yoghurt,

Two bottles of mayonnaise (garlic and chilli flavours)

Two cheesecakes (one strawberry, the other lemon and marscepone)

A packet of rich tea biscuits.

A box of eggs

Shampoo with honey added!

Why?

The only vegetables were a jar of gherkins….

I don’t normally ask him to go shopping!

Yummy #bandofsketchers

Posted on April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cake, Cherries, Colours, Drawing, Food, Fun, glacè, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Oh, #band of sketchers

it meant I had to eat

Cherry cake!

The prompt was yummy.

This was very

Tasty and sweet

Glace Cherries

In a madiera

Cake base!

Between?

Posted on March 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, bun, Cake, Fork, Life, Painting, Plate, Sketching, water colour sketch2 Comments

Tonights #bandofsketchers prompt was between. OK, my choice was between Cadburys Creme Egg cake and a nice hot cross bun…. Er, yes….. Both? I used a little Watercolour box I found on top of the microwave. It’s several years old and only has ten half pans of paint with a tiny brush. But it’s good quality paint.

Another cake?

Posted on November 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple sauce, apples, Cake, Cider, Cooking, Cream, Dessert, Food, Ripe, TastyLeave a comment

I really want to make another apple cake but I keep getting distracted. I have paintings to take to a gallery who are going to try to sell them on line for me. I have to get my cats flea treatments from the vets. I have online lectures to attend. I don’t know how much longer the apples will last. Yesterday I used a large one to make apple sauce. I added cider instead of water and cooked the fruit slowly over a low heat v gradually mashing down the apples. Delicious with cream.

Mallaband-Brown

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