Saturday saw Isobel baking again, this time coffey and chocolate cupcakes, the chocolate ones are the ones with the chocolate lattice work on top, the coffey ones are those with a maple leaf in coffey sprinkled on the top. Both were delicious...............although Isobel did have to admit that they would have been even better had she remembered to add hte baking powder!
Went to Monymusk film club on Saturday evening, a great turnout for "The Angels Share", which we all enjoyed, highly recommended.
Ellie and I have had a slightly frustrating morning. All of Scotlands ski areas are closed due to snow and high winds so skiing was cancelled today...........and there were the two of us with nice new skis to try out! Guess we'll have to make do with watching ski Sunday instead.
"What a fab way to spend jury duty, wasn't required on the Friday so booked myself onto a two hour late lunch course. We were shown how to skin and fillet flat fish and prepare a lemon sole for cooking on the bone. It was so interesting and Simon our Chef made it all look so easy. When I asked where in Aberdeen you could buy good fish a voice behind me chipped in how awful it was that there were no good fishmongers, that voice was Nick Nairn himself. I am pleased to say he has matured since his heady days of first fame and is definitely not that arrogant so and so I met at the Good Food Show some 20 years ago! As there were only 5 of us on the course I was working on my own so Simon would come over for a gossip and use my fish as the example. So far this is my third course, the next one I'm hoping to do is a classic Indian course but since the date for that one is the same as Isobe'ls hockey match against Watson's from Edinburgh, I will have to wait for the next one!"
