After a nearly 6 month long creative dry spell for both cooking and writing it’s fair to say, I’m back. What happened, I suppose, was Lent, then Holy Week and Easter, then Confirmation, the end of the school year, Ken to Spain, the kids and I following to Europe for a month and a whole host of daily work and play -- blogging fell to the wayside. You know how it is, sometimes something has to give; Madison House Chef was what gave. I still cooked and created some new meals, I even shot a few food filled digital frames, but they didn’t make it to posting. But now, after a much needed, long vacation, that both energized me and re-opened the door to creativity I’m back cooking, photographing, and blogging… for both of you. (LOL) This blog was never intended to make me famous, but a place to keep my own favorite files (which I accessed this very morning when making blueberry muffins…more on that in a later post) and to share them with family, friends, or someone stopping by via the search engines or food sites looking for a particular recipe that I might just have posted.
Nevertheless, the creative food and writing breakthrough came when we were in England (see above) and I made one of Ken’s favorite meals (bangers and mash, photo below) while staying in our flat in London (no, the above photo is not said flat… it’s Leeds Castle where we spent an enchanting day).
This is a Cumberland Sausage (quite common in UK), a traditional mash (as in mashed potatoes, but the potatoes aren’t peeled and the consistency of the mashing is still a bit ‘lumpy’), and a glass of ale (Old Speckled Hen). The meal was delicious, the photo fairly representative.
Thus, hello again. ~Enjoy!
