What heaven tastes like

My love my new hobby, cooking, I've even considered cooking fish which I don't even like but just the thought of being able to cook another kind of food made me feel so proud. The good thing about cooking is that there's always something new to learn, even all the professional chefs don't know everything there are new tastes and dishes ready to be discovered.

I made Nigella Lawson's Devil's food cake as promised, which by the way is what heaven tastes like, my boyfriend made it with me, as he does with most of the cakey things, last week we made a cherry and almond pie and got in an argument about how thick the mixture should have been ("it says it's supposed to look like that!" "well I don't think it looks right!" "well I'm going to follow the RECIPE and keep it like this!" "you do that!") but it turned out fine (because I followed the recipe) I tried to impress him by making roast duck with potatoes which usually turns out brilliantly but of course on this occasion it went wrong an I set fire to the duck but I sacrificed myself and ate the burnt one so at least everyone else enjoyed theirs.

I have set up a list of things I want to make in the next few weeks :
- A damn good cake to give to the secretarys i'm working with on my woruk experience (as a bribe for a good report)
- Pancakes with blueberry syrup, for pancake day of course
- Blondies (brownies but blonde)
- My sisters birthday cake (I will take a photo of that and put it on here but her birthday is at the end of febuary so don't get excited)
- Something that isn't a dessert, any ideas?

I would also like to take the oppurtunity to thank my mum for taking pity on me and leaving comments, but I hope some day to get one from someone else.

Cooking with Nigella

Thanks to the amazing Nigella Lawson and her programme Nigella Kitchen on BBC I have discovered a passion for cooking, I love her recipies, probably because she uses so much butter and chocolate and gorgeous delicious things, and I'm hoping that if I get fat because of it I will look like her but somehow I don't think so, not that she's fat but she has curves and I actually condsidered trying to GAIN weight to see if I could look like her.

The first thing I made was some brownies, actually I made them with my boyfriend... well I allowed him to stir the sugar while I mesured things out and mixed etc... When they were ready they were absoloutely divine, even though only 150g of milk choccy went in they were so luscious and perfect, it was like eating heaven.

Sadly, the second time I tried to make them for my grandmother but they had 10 minutes too long in the oven and while they were still nice they were juuuust a little too crunchy and dry so I was quite upset.

Tonight I have made her roast duck legs with potatoes, I have never done a roast before so I am very excited, though I will be annoyed if anything happens to it because it was so easy, you just put some duck legs in a pan skin side down with no oil or anything, chop some potatoes, turn the legs over and put the potatoes in the pan, still with no oil, salt, pepper, thym, and shove in the oven (200). I can't wait to see what it tastes like.

I have decided that another thing I want to make is Devil's food cake which looks fantastic, I don't know when yet but I will put a photo of the one she made on for you to drool over.