Easter weekend

What a great weekend, so much to catch up on that's happened.. Apart from the fact Mr. C was up every morning at 4m to go to work, apart from the fact Bo had terrible snoring problems, so loud one would have thought there was a pig at the bottom of the bed and the crappy Irish weather, it couldn't have been better!! Wait did I mention my farmers market had lost it's poor little roots to the frost?? Yes unfortunately the little plants couldn't take the cold Irish weather and well, died!! And with the looks of today's weather I don't think a greenhouse will even work, maybe we should move on to the good old cabbage and potatoes?! Easter weekend was great.. We did nothing but chill all afternoon/evening.. Dogs enjoyed it, but probably were wondering where their weekend outgoings had gone.

So what was on the menu this weekend?? I don't remember what was for lunch on Saturday!! I'm thinking hard for a split second here but nothing's coming to my mind?? Oh wait, that's right, due to mistakes we've made in the past, i.e. eating a big fat greasy dirty chipper for lunch and filling our little bodies up with chips and a battaaaa burgaaaa, leaving no room in us for dinner, we've learned that that was not a good option any more, so courtesy of Mrs. C, we had some yummy smoked salmon and brown bread- well Mr. C had that, I was 0.01% more adventurous, I had melted cheese on white bread and smoked salmon. It was delish!! So could that it's making me hungry now. I forget to take photos of it probably because I was too busy eating and enjoying it :P

What I do have pictures of though is what was for dinner- T's special tag with creamy white wine sauce plus extras and half home made chips, half frozen.... Apparently we had a bag of potatoes at home, which meant we had 2 potatoes in the fridge :P

Bo waiting so patiently for some scraps with a big runny noise (note: left nostril)

And of course there was little ole Suki..

"Well I don't know why I came here tonight

I got the feeling that something ain't right

I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair

And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs

Clowns to the left of me *Mr. C* :P

Jokers to the right

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you"

And how could we not forget the good ole dessert, would take the credit if I could but I think it impossible- Superquinn coffee slice and jam donut cream thing.. DELISH !! Better than the ones we got in Mannings last week.. How I want one now, following on from my smoked salmon and melted cheese toastie.. Yum Yum..

Sometimes too good to share, but because I love you, I'll let you have a bite :)

That was Saturday night's belly fully satisfied :)


This was how Bo spent Sunday, spent every morning while Mr. C was in work before getting caught and being told to " GET......." (get down, but once she hears that GET, she's a goner) Bless x

So a bit bored waiting for Mr. C to get off work and seeing Lent was over and chocolate was allowed again, I decided to make him some chocolate chip cookies :P Was pretty simple, but don't think I'd be in a hurry to make them again, although Mr. C did make a very tasty dessert, honey comb ice cream with broken up love heart cookies..... He broke my heart :( So mean :P

The Mix

Before going into the oven

The final product, only a tad bit deformed looking 

So dinner, well since it was Easter we decided to treat ourselves slightly to a rack of lamb. There wasn't any fresh rosemary in the supermarket so we had to improvise with some dried rosemary and thyme, butter and garlic marinade.. It smelt so good even before it was cooked.. Hmmmm I love garlic !!

Mr. C's dinner with peppercorn sauce 

My dinner with mint jelly












So continuing with spoiling ourselves over the Easter :P We went to Ming Court for some lunch- someone had a craving for dim sum and I had to follow :P Here's some pics to show what a tasty meal we had.

The XO turnip was nice and spicy, and beef with broccoli hoi sum..... sorry I mean hor fun but somebody called it hoi sum (meaning happy) so I've that on my head now :P :P :P, so the beef with broccoli hor fun was tasty. I think this dish usually comes with black bean pork ribs, but sometimes spitting out all them bones isn't very ladylike :P :P :P

To finish off, a great weekend, yummy food, and some chocolate eggs to keep the dogs happy x

 As usual Bo pushes Suki away (note: Bo's tongue sticking out already even before the box is open)

Suki: "Please don't touch my mouth and get it dirty"