Chilli con carne and boiled rice resulted in our first casualty of the year as Karolina suffered a puncture wound to the thumb. Never mind the pain, how's she gonna use her phone now?!?! We also used some fresh flat leaf and curly parsley from our herb patch. Easy on the chilli it was enjoyed by all.

TACPAC Tuesday is getting busier so we were delighted to have former pupil and student teacher Kate McCarthy to help us out

In a moment of madness Mr. Boys agreed to take part in I'm A Celeb Get Me Out Of Here. See the Latest News Blog for more information. 

For our first cookery of the New Year we jointed a chicken and then used the whole bird to make a vat of coconut chicken curry. We shouldn't need to cook again this year!

To round off our cooking for the year Gemma helped us to make Christmas Cookies, which were then seriously over-decorated.

We had a lovely Christmas Mass in Sonas. Thanks to all who came including Father Heinhold and Santa!

Jamie Oliver's filo and puff pastry mince pies went down a storm.

Today we cooked bacon and mushroom pasta with garlic bread.

This is what we look like in the snow.

Actually we used a butternut squash. We made a sweet shortcrust dough with eggs, butter and flour. The next day we prepared the squash and mixed it with sugar, salt, milk, eggs, butter, cinnamon and nutmeg. we rolled out the pastry, blind baked it and poured in the squash mixture. It took a long time to cook and we left it in the fridge overnight. The next day (Thanksgiving Day), we ate it with rum (flavoured) ice-cream. Happy Thanksgiving y'all!