Well so much for a ride and a drive.
We have a little glut of courgettes so we needed to find a few recipes to use some up.
Also on the shopping list curtiously of my mother was lemons.
Well we dont use lemons in our house, only used as pectin for making jam and chutneys etc. Well we are out of homemade jam. Fruit is in the freezer and weve been buying sugar over several weeks ready for jam making. Lemons were on the shopping list the week before but i actually forgot them. So got slated for that.
No quantity was put as to how many lemons, so i brought two nets of 7 small lemons last week, thinking that should be enough. Then someone said why did you buy all those lemons. Well it was on your list mother. Yes but i only wanted 2 or 3. Grrrr i was mad. Anyway been in the fridge all week, no jam made. So i have to find recipes to use up lemons as well now.
So my efforts, slaving in the kitchen this afternoon.
Lemon cookies with, a lemon drizzle on top. Should be white icing according to the picture. Dont think i got it thick enough when mixing. Never iced anything before.
Lemon and courgette cake.
No prizes for prettiness. Ive never made butter cream or used icing sugar so very much an experiment. My butter cream was far too sloppy and after putting it on the cake i realised it was never going to set, so ive had to scrap it all off and try thickening it. Its still not quite right, needs to be thicker still. For a first attempt im going to except it. Cake has tken a lot longer to make than i intended. Im sure it will taste fine. The gannets wont care what it looks like or tastes like. It will get eaten im sure.
Courgette pancakes for breakfast in the morning. When i make them.
