The Sacred Art of Eating

Sorry for the lack of posts; we’ve been incredibly busy this last week or so and consequently haven’t really been cooking. I don’t even have anything left that we’ve cooked but I’ve not told you about!

However, the matter is in hand. I have a shopping list, and, all being well, it’ll be Nigella Express for tea both tonight and tomorrow!

I left my camera, with all of the weekend’s photos (a frankly staggering five recipes plus some non-Nigella Express) at a friend’s in Glasgow yesterday. It will probably be next weekend till I get it back.

So something else till then…. grainy camera phone shots?

161 Days left in the Year.

114 Recipes left in the Challenge.

We may need a new approach….

Apologies for the radio silence. Dougal and I are currently without internet in the flat. Believe you me, it hurts us more than it hurts you. All this should change on Saturday…watch this space.

Yes, it has been very quiet here. I have been rather busy. We have been cooking, but often not blogging. There has been the small (but painful) matter of a lack of internet connection (yours at a cost of £19.50 a month!).

However, there is a new post for you below, and there will be a new post for you tomorrow (I can say this with some certainty as I have already written it) and there may even be a further new post for you on Thursday. Just now though I have to get back to writing change of address cards, or *some* of you will no doubt complain!

Yes, we’ve been somewhat quiet over here at The Sacred Art of Eating. Moving house has rather occupied us- my utmost respect to Helen at One Year Project who last year managed to cook and blog a Rachel Ray recipe every day of the year whilst simultaneously fitting in not only moving house but also giving birth. Kudos.

We have been cooking- both before the move (we had a ridiculously social week the week before we got the keys…seems like ages ago now!) and since and we have meals in the pipeline. As Dougal’s stats post shows we are pretty far behind now, so we will have to up the rate of cooking. This means some planning ahead of meals. There are at least three recipes planned for the coming week but that may need to become four or even five. Watch this space!

Here’s an update on how things are going:

Everyday Easy         3/ 13 =  23%
Workday Winners       7/ 14 =  50%
Retro Rapido          3/ 12 =  25%
Get Up and Go         5/ 11 =  45%
Quick Quick Slow      4/ 15 =  27%
Against The Clock     4/ 11 =  36%
Instant Calmer        8/ 15 =  53%
Razzle Dazzle         1/ 16 =   6%
Speedy Gonzales       6/ 11 =  55%
On The Run            5/ 14 =  36%
Hey Presto            7/ 15 =  47%
Holiday Snaps         3/ 23 =  13%
Storecupboard SOS     7/ 19 =  37%

Totals               63/189 =  33%
Time passed         149/366 =  41%

You can see we’re behind schedule now. If we want to catch up within the next week we need to do seventeen more recipes. We’re going to need about a dozen flatwarming parties… ;-)

Sincere apologies to regular readers for the glaring lack of updates of late. Those of you in the know will know that Dougal and I are currently mid-house move. We paid for our first ever flat on Friday, spent the weekend decorating, and will be moving in this coming weekend. All this means that blogging has suffered, somewhat.

Rest assured there has still been some cooking going on, albeit not as much as there ought to have been, and so I shall return with tales of salads, steaks (of the fishy variety) and sundaes.

See you soon!

Another big post coming soon, with details of the four course meal we cooked on Sunday night and how that brings us back up to speed with the challenge.

Right now, however, there are plenty of relatively new posts for you to be commenting on, and I need to get to bed! Patience, my pretties!

Dougal, my hunch was right. We are way behind on puddings. In fact, whilst we are over 20% of the way through the challenge, at about 20% of the way through the year, we are a pitiful 13% of the way through the puddings. In fact, if we want to get through all the remaining Puddings, Cookies and Muffins (not to mention the Hot Drinks and, heck, the Cocktails) then we will have to do a Pudding every week from now until the end of the year. Some weeks we’ll need to do two!

Indeed, of 54 treats in the book, we have managed only 7. This is probably mostly down to feeling there ought to be an occasion for a pudding or cake, so we’ve managed it when we’ve had friends over for dinner but almost never gone to the effort for just the two of us. After all, it would be a waste to make some of these dishes and not share them! In fact, looking at the stats, we’ve never made a pudding for just the two of us. It’s always been when we’ve had friends round or when we are going out to friends.

We had been talking of introducing a Sunday night ‘Pudding and a Pot of Tea’ tradition, to see more of our friends and help us through the challenge. This may be more necessary than we’d thought!