Baking Weekend

This weekend after my hair cut Jo came round for a weekend of baking. At first the plans went slightly awry when Jo brought a bottle of red and we spent the evening with pizza and videos instead, but then Sunday we were up and raring to go. So, we decided what we would bake and went to the supermarket and got everything we needed, but then got distracted by a ramen shop on the way home.

Eventually at 3pm on Sunday we were ready to start cooking. We put on our aprons and tied up our hair in bandanas, as per usual Japanese cooking style. Now we have been here too long to be able to actually do an activity without donning the correct costume.

In an attempt to make up for not having started until so late, we adventurously decided on four separate recipes. The first was non-cook cheesecake. We burnt that. The scones (see photo for example of cooking prowess), we burnt on the outside and raw in the middle. However, our two pumpkin products - pie and soup - made up for it by being really, really good.

It was then we realised that in two days we are both going away for a week and don't have time to eat any of it. Think people at school may be subjected to charcoaled cheesecake...