Being housewife-y again

Which means I spent the better part of the day in the kitchen.

Firstly, I baked the two sponge cakes for my birthday cake - a day too early because I forgot that October 9th is on Friday, not tomorrow. Ah, well, what's done is done. I wrapped the things in tinfoil to prevent them from drying out. Tomorrow I'll cut them into concentric circles and put together so that they'll give a checkboard pattern in the inside. Or so I hope. I've never done that before. If it goes pear-shaped I'll blame Mary Berry. She made it look so easy.

Speaking of which, I gave her chicken pasta bake a try, and it turned out very yummy:



I also blanched the oversized cauliflower I bought yesterday and forgot about completely. It will make two meals somewhen in the future. Mum and I both like cauliflower, but it's so insanely expensive this year that we must make small portions. I think something must have gone wrong with the growing, as these have been imported from Poland.

Afterwards I managed to write half a page for the upcoming chapter of SD5. More than nothing, so I'm not complaining, especially after a day like this. I had a small scare as my iPad mini didn't want to connect to the internet a short time ago; fortunately it seems to have been a temporary glitch. *fingers crossed*

In other news, it's been raining for hours. No balcony leakage so far, but you can never know. *sigh/