Weekend Cooking: What I Baked in November

Last month when I posted about what I had baked during October, I mentioned that I hadn't been cooking as much and it's fair to say that is true for November as well. One reason is lockdown fatigue but the main reason is really because work is really kicking my butt and has been for the last couple of months. Over the last month it's got to the point that I don't even pick up my laptop after work to write or read other people's blogs or even read a book because I am  working late nearly every night and then I am so tired.

The other thing I have mentioned for the last couple of months is about how to challenge myself. On this front, I think November was a good month, because, whilst I only made a couple of things, they were both things that had several different components. Don't get me wrong, the individual components weren't particulary difficult but it does take a little bit of time to put it all together.

The first thing I made was the Chocolate Caramel Flan which I shared the recipe for a couple of weeks ago.

I loved this recipe - and I am thinking that this might be our Christmas dessert because if we add strawberries, raspberries and blueberries into the middle it would be quite festive.  We could also do something with the base to add in some spices, or make  a gingerbread flavoured cake. It's a definite possibility.

The other thing that I made was an absolutely amazing, as in a-maz-ing, lemon meringue cheesecake. This wasn't the original plan but Robert a recipe for a lemon slice type thing called Lemon Lush that included ingredients like fresh whisk and lemon pudding mix which we don't get here. So I went searching until I found this recipe at Love Life and Sugar.

Making this also gave us a reason to go and buy a blowtorch so that we could do the toasty bit on the meringue. 

I will definitely be making this one again, although I have learnt that I need to start this one early in the morning rather than in the afternoon as it was torture having to wait for it to set overnight.

Weekly dinners:

Saturday: Pork schnitzel with chips
Sunday: Grilled cheese on toast
Monday: Steak egg and chiips
Tuesday: Burgers
Wednesday: Chicken skewers, baked potato and salad
Thursday: Corn cakes, baked beans, tomato peach and ricotta salad
Friday: Fish and chips (takeaway Friday)

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