Pesto passion

Well I didn’t get the care package of veggies from Volos as Sean was in too much of a rush for the boat! However he is back there next week so hopefully this time he’ll deliver.
Of all the things in the world that junior loves to eat (which aren’t many admittedly) pasta with pesto is top of the savoury list. I’ve been meaning to make it for her ever since we’ve moved over here but have been deterred by the price of pine nuts. For the amount I wanted we could have had a holiday in a 5* hotel! However I did manage to come by some and quickly made junior her pesto. She ate it but did comment that it looked a lot greener than the pesto she was used to which I told her was because it was a lot superior and fresher than shop bought pesto. She seemed to accept this as perfectly reasonable and polished the bowl of with some alacrity.

Yesterday, being her birthday, meant cake. Carrot cake to be precise. There’s a photo on the living in Skopelos bit although it’s only of half of the cake as we’d already eaten half before I thought of taking a picture!
Party on Saturday means more cake baking but due to Junior’s previously mentioned aversion to icing, I am dispensing with the traditional cake idea and instead I’m making lots of muffins which I’m then going to shape into the number 5! That’s the idea anyway. So tomorrow’s to do list reads as follows; 1 batch of gingerbread men, 2 batches of chocolate brownies, 6 carrot muffins, 6 double chocolate muffins and 12 coconut muffins. It’s a good job I like baking!