Weekend Cooking: What I Baked in April

And just llike that it is the end of April! The month seems to have gone very quickly, maybe because we were away for a week of it!

Here's what I baked in April:

Carrot, Walnut and Ginger Cake - This is one of our all time favourite cakes. I was thinking about making something chocolatey for Easter, but we ended up deciding that the Easter Bunny would be happy with a carrot cake right. You can see the recipe for this one here.

Upside Down Pineapple Cake - I have made a bit of a foolhardy decision which is that I am going to make something inspired by each episode of Great British Bake Off this season. Originally the idea was to do the technical bake but on week 3 I decided that might be too hard, so now it is just something from each episode. The challenge on week 1 was to make individual upside down pineapple cake, but I didn't have individual ramekins so I made one big cake using a Nigella Lawson recipe. It wasn't as pretty as hers because I didn't have the right size tin and I think our pineappple rings might be bigger than those in the UK but it was delicious and easy enough to make.

Irish Soda Bread - this is another GBBO inspired bake. The weather is getting colder here, so last weekend we made a Beef and Pepper Stew in the pressure cooker that the recipe says to serve with dumplings. We have done it with dumplings previously, and another time with a pastry lid, but this time we served it with freshly baked soda bread! This is bread that is super quick and easy to make so I think we will do this again.

Spicy Apple and Ginger Self Saucing Pudding - We had friends around for dinner last weekend. we served up this Pork and Fennel recipe and then for dessert we had one of our favourite desserts from last winter. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a photo but everyone enjoyed it.

Weekly Menu

Saturday: Crispy Skin Pork Belly with Caramelised Apples
Sunday: Beef and Pepper Stew with soda bread
Monday: Zucchini Parmesan and Tomato Risotto
Tuesday: Spag Bol
Wednesday: Pork Nachos

Thursday: Takeaway
Friday: Leftovers from lunch!

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