Lady Lunchalot

Ok by now with only 3 hours to go, i must admit, i’m getting a little tired. Having now been awake for 26 hours, i feel like Big Brother is watching me through the screen making sure that I dont fall asleep, mind you i am looking very glamourous… Not!

Bed is looking and sounding soooo good, I cant wait. Hopefully work will be sympathetic to my 24 hour crusade over the weekend, and allow me to sleep in the meeting room, or the liftwell… Thanks Martin

Im not counting the following:

• The number of hours I have left of the blogathon
• The number of hours that Alex the cat has slept in his lifetime
• The number of calories I have consumed in today’s frenzy
• The number of dishes I will have to wash following a couple of hours sleep
• The number of times I viewed the webcam and thought to myself ‘oh my hips’

However I am counting the following:

• The number of children and families that we have helped with all of the donations that have been made - thank you everyone
• The number of people that have logged on and been part of this site and this competition
• The number of comments that people have left during the blogathon and beyond
• The number of hungry and hungover bellies I was able to feed today
• The number of people who rolled out of the house after lunch

Only four hours to go and yes that’s about enough time to do the dishes that have piled up for the whole day. Do I have any volunteers? If we bring forward the renovation by three months it would make it so much easier. Then there’d be a dishwasher.

So what do we have left?… a very small amount of lasagne, five very small pieces of brownie (thank you everyone for taking away that temptation), spinach and ricotta pie, enough to last the week of frozen dinners, tagine, well no one has touched that, which means that I will have an alternative to spinach and ricotta pie for the week, hmm mixed with some cous cous; sounds inviting in the distant future when I regain the need to eat again.

Poor Zoeball, with all the hype and build up of the 24 hour cooking frenzy and blogathon, she gets a cold 2 days before! meaning that she couldnt taste the food properly, but it wasnt enough to curb her appetite for (vegetarian - coz these cows only ate grass) lasagne and brownie. Well done Zoe, one for the team!

Heh heh… we’ve just sent two children under the age of three off home with bellies full of sugar-enriched brownies before bedtime.

Sweet dreams Ben and Julie! LOL

O just told me I will be able to write for the rest of the night about washing up. Hmph…

Leo, our little 1.5 year old friend, can’t get enough of the spinach pie. Here’s the exact recipe for Ben and Julie.

Mix a 500g tub of ricotta with about 4 eggs, chopped onion, a generous few handfuls of chopped parsley, half a bunch of chopped spinach and some crushed garlic. Place in a baking tray, sprinkle some cheese on top and layer about 6 sheets of filo pastry over the top. Spray with olive oil spray. Bake for about 30 minutes.

I once found a Maltese restaurant and I was so excited. I had never seen a Maltese retaurant before, and having grown up knowing quite a few Maltese dishes, I thought it might be fun to try some Maltese food that hadn’t been cooked by a relative for a change.

I was unbelievably disappointed. I ordered ravjul, which is a big Maltese ravioli, and it was overcooked, sludgy, and the sauce tasted like it had come out of a bottle.

I guess there’s nothing like nanna’s cooking.

Lasagne, fresh from the oven.

Filo schmilo…

Lamb tagine

It’s pics like this that make it all worthwhile!