Productive meece

So that's the Christmas cards done, the washing done, I'm all showered and hair's been washed and I've successfully recorded a greeting for the rec.arts.mystery Christmas vid. Now I'm loafing and watching the football.

I do love lazy Sundays :) Not as much as lazy Saturdays but they're the next best thing!

I've booked my Christmas leave and I'll be off from Mon 22nd through to Friday 2nd January 2009. So that'll give me a nice long break. I'll have to find out what hours I'll be doing when I go back as I'm pretty sure I won't be managing more than six. I hope that's ok with work, but I'll run it past them next week :)

And it's our office Christmas bash on Friday, which means the afternoon will probably be cancelled due to lack of interest :D Oh and PartyGirl thought of what I could get ShitStirrer - booze! - so that's sorted :)

*settles back* Time for tea, methinkest!

Hee! I baked!

And it didn't suck :D

I've had a hankering recently to see if I still have my pastry making skillz - I used to make a pretty mean apple pie - and decided I would have a bash at some jam tarts, as they would be simple to do and I had a jar of jam that needed using up.

I don't own any scales, but I do have a set of measuring cups, so I was able to measure out the flour ok but I had to guestimate the amount of butter. I was happy to discover that the pastry came out ok and rolled out really well. 12 jam tarts later and the tray was in the oven while I waited, nervously.

They came out ok! I may have overcooked a smidge or it might be the butter/flour ratio was just a tad out, as the pastry is rather crunchy BUT it tastes perfectly ok and the tarts look great :D

So tomorrow, 'm gonna try my hand at a treacle tart, I found a really simple recipe on the BBC food pages. Wish me luck! :D