Bubbling Hot

Hey

I ended up cooking today as will be away on my normal cooking night. I started with my dessert today. I made mint choc brownies from my Brownie Bliss cook book to use up the After Eights that I had unopened from Christmas. They were orange After Eights, so they ended up tasting more of orange than mint.

Mint (orange) Choc Brownie

The other thing that I loved about this brownies apart from they should taste of mint if done with normal After Eights, is that there are no nuts in them which I really don't like (I end up picking them out normally).

After the brownies were out of the oven, I then started on my beef stew and dumplings as the weather hasn't been great the last couple of days. I took along time but it was OK once the stew was in the oven. The dumplings were also good as they have no suet in it, so would be good for vegetarians.

Almost finished - just need to brown the dumplings

Finished stew - still bubbling away

xxx