In that time, I have had a baby, taken her and her brother to watch the Olympics and Paralympics, been made redundant, had influenza, and started training as a breastfeeding counsellor - so not been up to much really!
So I think I'll start with a ridiculously lazy Easter 'recipe' - this is not really a recipe, it is more a way to keep a 3 year old occupied, and make something with chocolate for me to eat.
Rocky Road Nests
You will need:
some chocolate - we used about 150g milk chocolate.
a tablespoon of butter
a tablespoon of chocolate spread
2 digestive biscuits
a mini pack of cereal (we used cornflakes, as O found a mini box of them in the cupboard and wanted to play with them)
some other stuff - we used
a handful of raisins
a handful of mini marshmallows
half a tube of smarties
To make these:
Melt the chocolate/butter/chocolate spread in a microwave - 30 seconds, stir, then 10 second bursts until it's smooth.
Stir in the cereal and other stuff (you could add nuts, white chocolate chunks, glace cherries, chopped dried apricots, maltesers, broken up pretzels - basically whatever you find in the cupboards). break up the biscuits into chunks and stir them in too.
Spoon a dessert spoon of the mixture in to cupcake wrappers in a cupcake or muffin tin, and try to make them vaguely nest shaped with the spoon.
Chill them in the fridge until set, then stick a mini chick or some mini eggs in them to serve.
Try not to eat them all before the 3 year old tries one!
