Cheesecake and Mum

The children requested sour cream cake for the forthcoming festival. This was made to a recipe that my much-missed mum used to make. She had taken the recipe from her friend Mavis (also now departed).

I opened my battered recipe book and there was mum’s writing on a piece of paper I had stuck in the book. My heart ached.

I cook and Mabel sits in hope

The first shallots from the garden
Sautéed with home grown chillis
Spicy lentil dhal
Mabel doesn’t like any of those ingredients
Nor the carrot salad I made later

So I gave her a tiny piece of cheese as compensation. Nigel is outside enjoying a pigeon that he caught!