I feel like a Hippy tonight

Tonight I feel like a bit of a hippy. We have just finished dinner of Dahl (lentils) curry with homemade preserved lemon.  I will follow that with a homemade double layered butter cake with butter icing (not so healthy, I know). I would have included a picture of the lentils but lets be honest, they don't look pretty.

I have not included a recipe for the Dahl curry, as I am not sure if anyone would actually be into that. Plus I have no idea what I actually put in it. I am a bit of a random chef and throw a bit of this and a bit of that, then if it doesn't taste quite right I throw a bit more in. Plus I used my secret spice mix from my mother-in-law (authentic Indian).

I have to say the curry was exactly what we needed, both Hubby and I were feeling a little unhealthy and lacking in vegies. Plus it tasted dam delicious, warmed the cockles of my heart, it did (smiling as I say that). Perfect for this cold and rainy weather we have been having.

Hubby is a bit reluctant to just eat vegetables so I threw a tin of tuna at him, I think he realised afterwards that he didn't actually need it. The perfect mix to the meal were our homemade preserved lemons, that hubby made(will put a seperate post on these). These weren't actually that preserved as they had only been in the jar a week, but we were too excited not to try them.


To follow soon will be my lovely butter cake, iced pink just to annoy the boys of the house, there is nothing more amusing to me than watching two guys digging into a pink cake, with hundreds and thousands on it. I double layered the cake just to put more butter filling/icing in it.  I also swiped some strawberry jam in between the layers as well. That will end the healthy start to my meal as I know how much butter and sugar went into this cake, not for the faint hearted I have to say.

For the cake I used the Butter Cake recipe in the Edmonds cook book, and butter filling for the filling and icing. I LOVE THE EDMONDS COOK BOOK, it is my present of choice for people leaving home, it has every basic recipe you could need in just the one cook book. I have lots of other cook books but that is the only one I refer to regularly. Love you Edmonds.

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