Wednesday 18 February 2009

I've had enough of the sweet stuff!!

Having just completed a commission order for savoury pieces, I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to STOP creating sweet treats...only for the minute, I'm sure I'll get back to them... sooner, rather than later!!...& make some savoury foods. The trouble is with my minis that before I make a piece out of clay I have to make the "real" thing 1st as I always work from the "real" thing & of course I then have to eat it...can you imagine just how many inches have gone onto my waist & hips & just about everywhere else recently!! It had to stop!




So....having come across an old recipe of my grandmothers for a lovely loin of pork rolled round sausagemeat & apple sauce, I decided to make it, not just for a family meal, but in miniature as well. The only trouble is that it was just so delicious that I managed to consume not only 2nds but 3rds of it, so I think I probably added more to my overall measurements that if I'd had plain old mince & a pud! There's obviously no hope for me. I think I'm just going to get fat & old even more disgracefully than I do now!


Then I decided to carry on in the savoury mode, as I needed to write & photograph a tutorial for CDHM on making a carved chicken....guess what we had for dinner this evening in our house!!

I'm not sure what I'm doing writing this as I'm rapidly running out of time now...I have to leave for my next 3 weeks away from home (& more importantly, my workshop) amongst charming nappies, school runs & spelling tests on Sunday & today is Wednesday....oh dear, sooo much to still get done. Looks like I'll be burnung the midnight oil....again!!









6 comments:

Sumaiya Mehreen said...

they are striking...as usual!

will the CDHM tutorial be available to non-members?

rosanna said...

Same question of sumaiya...
more other...both recipes are delicious the real and the fake ones.

Daisy said...

Hmmm, are perfect!

linsminis said...

I'm pretty sure that you have to be a CDHM member & have posted on the forums at least twice to be able to either take part in the tutorial at the time or view it afterwards. Don't take my word for it though, as I'm pretty hopeless really at "keeping up" with things..pop in to cdhm & take a look!
mini hugs, Linda
I'm also going to have to carefully check my typing next time I add an entry...too many typo errors there! Like most things, I do it in a hurry! Apart from my miniatures of couse!!

Debbie said...

Oh Lin, I could really get stuck into that Pork joint. Love a bit of crackling..
Mini Hugs

Sumaiya Mehreen said...

It would be grand if you would hijack the mini food blog more often...it's so much more special when the artists share their work directly on the blog...and since you are one of the authors there, it's not hijacking really :D

I was thinking about your pies this afternoon before I got home as a matter of fact...something I heard at a conference made me think of the pies...will explain later...