In My Kitchen: November

Welcome to the first Saturday of the month where I share everything I have made over the previous month. When I say everything, I mean not much. I am struggling with a bit of motivation to make things and hubby seems happy to just have the same old, same old, so I haven't been making much and when I do make something it is an old favourite. 

The first thing I made this month was Banana Bread which is always a winner. I like banana bread with either choc chips or with cream cheese frosting, but Robert just likes plain banana cake which he then has with butter. Now I really want cream cheese frosting on something!

I did try one new baking recipe this month. About 6 weeks ago or so I shared a quote about making scones from a book. In the comments CLM from  Staircase Wit shared a recipe that her family uses for choc chip scones. Rather than being the traditional round scones, these ones were made in wedges with quite a different method. They were good but I have now been asked to make normal scones with jam and cream. I think that is more about the cream rather than the scones because my husband is a cream fiend.

We spent the first couple of weeks in the month slowly making through the bag of chocolates that we bought in duty free in Colombo. We bought a bag as we were going through duty free in Colombo and we really enjoyed them. We wanted to buy another bag in  Male but they were charging $41USD which is crazy expensive.  We ended up buying them again as we transitted through Colombo at a much more reasonable $17. It's still expensive but not extortionate.

Another thing I was excited to pick up in duty free was this bag of treats. We discovered them on our first trip to the together 7 years ago. I then came home and realised we hadn't eaten the last lot that we bought when we were last in the US. 

We did get some new glasses this month. They were the free ones that you get from Hungry Jacks with a meal. I don't know why but we really like these glasses and we have quite a lot of them with different patterns on. They are a great size and they feel like they are good quality.  I guess we are just suckers for a freebie.

So there wasn't a lot of baking, but what there was is a lot of foodie experiences. The weekend we got home from our holidays it was our 6th wedding anniversary. I wasn't a hundred percent sure of how tired we would be after the holiday so we didn't plan anything that weekend so we didn't go out to celebrate until the week after.

Our anniversary dinner was at something called Le Petit Chef and Friends. Basically it is an animation than uses your table cloth and plate as a screen and tells a story about each course that you are going to eat. It was a lot of fun and the food was surprisingly good as well. The steak was one of the best pieces of steak I have eaten in the last few years and the dessert was amazing, served in a rush of dry ice. I forgot to take a picture of the dessert. Apparently there are at least 6 different versions of this so you could go again and have a different experience. There are at least two other types of this kind of show, so maybe we will do another one eventually

Last week I posted about our three eating on trains experiences recently, two of which occurred in November. One was at a burger joint that is in a repurposed commuter train carriage which is on top of a multi story building, and the other was a fancy meal on Q Train - a moving restaurant that serves good quality regional produced. 

Finally, last weekend we went to do an afternoon tea at a place called Oxi Tea Rooms. We have been before, but the menu changes every six month and this was a completely different experience. I will post more about this in a couple of weeks, but hopefully this photo shows just how amazing the food looked!  We did also score a couple of spoons that one of the courses was served on. This is because it was the second last day of the menu that we had and so presumably they didn't need them anymore!

52 Recipes Challenge

Here are the new recipes we tried this month.

Jollof Chicken and Rice - I made this for Cook the Books

Choc Chip Scones

Weekend Cooking posts from the last month

What We Ate on Holiday's: Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure

Cook the Books: Maame by Jessica George

Eating on Trains

Weekly meals

Saturday - 
Sunday - Pork chops, mash and cider gravy
Monday - Pressure Cooker Spaghetti Bolognaise
Tuesday - Chicken Parma, Chips 
Wednesday - Spanish Tuna Pasta Bake
Thursday - Out for dinner
Friday - Steak and salad

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