Strudel Success!

The latest news from the kitchen, is that I have made an Apple Strudel, and it was scrummy!
(infact I made two, but one got eaten before I could take the photo)
Photo below:

Suggested accompinment (from the recipe): Creme Fraiche- However I had Ice cream and it was heavenly! :)

I think the strudel was made partly to fill the 'Strudel Bar-sized' hole, left now that the Strudel Bar in Bath, that I visited last year with Lucy B, has shut down. Photo below:

This was a German Strudel Bar called Hansel and Gretel's that sold Apple Strudels and Spiced Coffees.

However, on the upside I have just booked tickets for another 3 day visit to Bath, to see Lucy B and the Christmas markets. :) I will use the two 4 hour train journeys to listen to one (or more) Jane Austen novels on Audiobook.

That's all really..... :)

Chucked in at the deep end...

Yesterday evening I had another duty at the Amex in which I was put in charge of a radio and a cadet. And as fate would have it, guess who had the only casualty the whole game! Yup, me.
Consequently, I very quickly learnt to deal with a casualty and the radio. Even if, at one point, I did have to radio Control and ask for 'a more experienced first aider'. Cue SECAmb (and a big sigh of relief from me!).

However the outcome of this incident was a very swift learning curve and confidence boost. So sometimes it's not so bad to be 'chucked in at the deep end'.

In other news, after having been to two SECAmb responder meetings, they then inform me that there is an application form that I need to fill out. So I am currently in the process of completing this.

In the culinary department, I was purusing a friend's blog who occasionaly posts a new recipe, and the latest addition was an 'Orange loaf cake'. (http://amy-babycake.blogspot.co.uk/) So, to the kitchen I went. and Voilà!

 

(Obviously it has been discovered and mostly eaten before I could get a photo!)

It is not the most exciting looking cake, but it is very tasty- lovely with a cuppa!

 

I think this is the next challenge:

 

Gingerbread cupcakes in time for christmas! :)

 

 

 

 

Until next time....