Birthdays and Cake

Busy weekend as family birthday so visitors and lots of cake. Having a member of the family who has a wheat intolerance can be difficult at times, but it also means that more care has to be taken when choosing and cooking food, which is not a bad thing as it makes us all think about what we are eating. There has been a lot of cooking and baking going on, in order to have birthday cake. Mind you there has been quite a lot of cake brought into the house from lovely market stalls in London where getting wheat free cakes and tasty vegetarian take-aways is a lot easier.

However there is a great cookery book called Gluten free baking which was a Christmas present and it has the most amazingly, yummy cakes and bread in. We have tried several and will be gradually working our way through it as the weeks go on, so thanks for the presetn and to Phil Vickery who wrote it. Another favourite dish for the birthday boy is curry so a home made vegetarian curry was his birthday meal, made by his best friend from London who came to visit for a few days. He brought his two dogs one who is about the same age and and size of one ours - 18months and full of energy! They have been tearing around the garden with totally disregard for where they were going and the visiting dog mistook reeds for solid ground and got quite a shock when he disappeared into the shallow end of the pond - these city dogs!!! I think the poor frogs etc. got a shock too, but it does not look like any harm done and the flags have got to be thinned out this week anyway.