Saturday, August 29, 2020

Weekend Cooking: August Baking

It's the last Saturday of the month and that means it is time to share my baking for this month. I started doing this earlier this year because otherwise every Weekend Cooking post would be about something sweet, which might be a bit much.

This is what what I cooked during August!



Weekender cookies - This was one of the Queen Baking Club fortnightly challenges. They are cookies with currants and rolled in cornflakes.




Apple and ginger self saucing pudding - I made this one last month as well. It is so good it was worth trying again!


Banana cake with cream cheese frosting - I have had a go to recipe for choc banana bread for years, which I still love, but we had some bananas and my husband has a thing for cream cheese frosting so we tried this recipe, and it was good.



Macarons with chocolate passionfruit filling - I was sent a kit to try making macarons. I posted about making them here.


Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies - these were another fortnightly challenge, and these were oh so good. You definitely only need to eat one of these cookies per sitting!



Strawberry Eton Mess Cupcakes - The final Queen challenge for this month. We enjoyed eating these,and there was an added bonus of  many leftover meringue kisses, which my husband thought was a treat something like peanuts. You can just eat them and eat them until they are all gone!

Weekly Meals

Saturday: Beef Bourgignon with mashed potato
Sunday: Beef Bougignon with rice
Monday: Baked zucchini, tomato and parmesan risotto
Tuesday: Thai Green Chicken Curry Pie
Wednesday: Bacon, Zucchini, mushroom pasta
Thursday: Steak, mushroom, broccolini, pea
Friday: Takeaway Friday - pizza




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22 comments:

  1. Your baked goods always look delicious. This time the chocolate cookies are the most tempting.

    be well... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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  2. The banana cake with the cream cheese icing looks wonderful. Lucky family to benefit from your baked goods!

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  3. I too am attracted by that banana cake ... I just happen to have some cream cheese in the refrigerator. Hummm. It's early Saturday here--plenty of time for a weekend bake. I also like the idea of sharing your week's dinners. I may start to add that to my posts.

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    1. We are very partial to cream cheese frosting in our house BFR!

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  4. The Banana cake, and Chocolate Chip Cookies look very good.

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  5. I should do a monthly recap of new recipes. 2020 has certainly seen more than its share of cooking!
    I'm off to read your list of top books.

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  6. Ok I don't know how I missed that risotto recipe or maybe I forgot about it.....but I'm definitely going to try making that. It looks easier than other risottos.

    Looks like you've had a very good week, food wise!

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    1. It's super easy and once you have the concept down you can adapt it to other recipes. We also do mushroom and bacon risotto that way!

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  7. Your desserts look so good, Marg! I'm afraid I won't be doing much in the way of baking sweets anymore since my husband was just diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Hopefully, he can get it under control and be allowed a treat every now and then. Otherwise, I'll have to sneak my sweets when he's not looking! :)

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    1. Well.....I probably should eat a bit less myself!

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  8. These all look amazing especially that banana cake, frosting is my downfall!

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  9. I didn't get my Weekend Cooking post done in time, but now I should definitely have it ready for early posting next weekend! Your baking looks incredible!

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    1. Look forward to reading your post next weekend Laurie!

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  10. ooh did i comment on this? i thought i had ... lots of lovely baking going on here marg. i agree with your hubby - the icing is the best bit! i remember making something as a child with my sister which had cornflakes and currants and butter. delish!

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  11. All those lovely sweets! I am not a baker and no one in my household has a sweet tooth (lucky for me because they would be very sad otherwise) but those macaroons had my mouth watering.

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  12. What a whole lot of deliciousness you have going on in your kitchen, Marg. I haven't baked for awhile, but your photos and descriptions are inspiring (or teasing) me. Loved the name of your blog, too -- especially intrepid -- fearless, adventurous, and enduring -- keep up the tasty work!

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