Surprise party, figs, Olympics

I am in trouble for not doing my blog last week, many apologies, I was very busy at the beginning of the week and then the weekend loomed and before I knew it the week had gone. Anyway, we have obviously had another busy week. The surprise party was truly a surprise to Sally and her husband Glynn had done a great job of organizing it all, she turned up to a garden full of 50 of her friends and family, a live singer, a hot buffet and more present and flowers than you could shake a stick at! Both Sally and her surprise guests all had a great time, and what a nice crowd of people they all were. I hope there were not too many sore heads the following morning.

We had dinners, lunches and a buffet to cater last week and have the same mix to cater for this week, I have an afternoon tea to deliver tomorrow and I’m looking forward to the baking this afternoon, I don’t very often get the chance to bake fancy cakes so that will be something different to do.

Following my recent efforts in the race for life I have decided to up my training and try and get fit enough to do the great north run next year. If anyone has any training tips or fancies a running buddy let me know.

What’s in season this week, well, in my garden my Fig has just delivered me my very first figs! I have had 5 of them and they are the first I have had from my 5 year old fig tree. So I thought I would give you a fig recipe as they are a delicious fruit and hugely under rated.In ancient Greece athletes would eat figs in training for the Olympics so I am going to eat my 5 and hope they help me in my training!! This is a really easy recipe and great if you haven’t cooked or eaten fresh figs before. Fresh figs will only keep for about 2 or 3 days so don’t buy them too far in advance.

Ingredients

12 ripe fresh figs
4tbsp clear honey
200g tub of Greek natural yoghurt
25g flaked almonds, lightly toasted

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180C. Trim the end of the stalks off each fig and then cut a cross into the top of each one and open it up slightly.
2. Place the figs in a non stick oven proof dish 3. Spoon the honey equally over the fruit cook at around 180C for 15 minutes until tender.
4. Add a good spoonful of Greek yoghurt to each one, sprinkle with the nuts and eat while they're still warm.

Thank you for reading, enjoy your week.