Cookathon

I've been cooking. I love cooking but only when I have the time and I'm cooking large amounts - cooking quickly for one just doesn't cut it.

Now I know (in my head) that Christmas is nearly here but I can't get into it. It's too hot, the sun is shining too much and there isn't the shopping frenzy that I'm used to in the UK. So my cooking hasn't exactly reflected the festive season. Over the last couple of days I've cooked bolognese sauce (but don't tell my Italian friends, they'd be horrified at what I've done with the recipe), spinach and pumpkin frittata (like quiche but without the pastry base), pumpkin and tomato soup (pumpkin is my new thing) and lentil stew (not so stew-y more tomato-y). My freezer compartment is stuffed and I'm a little worried because I've got no room to make ice to go with my Christmas Bailey's. I may have to wait until everything is frozen and then juggle a little.

What will I be eating on Christmas day? Oh probably pumpkin and tomato soup followed by steak and rounded off by ice-cream. All washed down by Bailey's. Of course, if I get going on the Bailey's too early, it might just be the ice-cream - still it's only one day a year.