Breakfast was a Sunday Special, oven poached smoked haddock and poached egg. The toast was less warm than I normally like but I can't complain when my breakfast is being prepared for me!
Then I did the world's most boring task - marzipanning the Christmas cake - and I managed to completely bodge it. No worries, the icing will cover it. After I'd done it, I thought - I could have rolled the marzipan out much thicker, I was treating it like it was pastry, which needs to be as thin as possible. I also totally managed to bodge the world's easiest baking task - using 3" cutters for the mince pie pastry, as per St Delia, when the tins dictated I should have used 4". No photos.
Dinner consisted of a Nathan Outlaw recipe adapted. Supposed to be Baked Cod with Portobello mushhooms but we used hake instead. The carrots were added in, and actually needed to roast a lot longer than we allowed for.
Any rumours that some chocolate truffles may also have been consumed are entirely well-founded.
