The Captain and me

The Captain is the broad shoulders that sometimes carry all four of us.

The Captain is the one who always says "it's ok, it's gonna be ok".

The Captain is so very often the calm in the storm, the one who is happy to wrestle on the floor till there are giggles all round, the one who puts out the rubbish without complaint and empties the constantly overflowing dishwasher.

The Captain always reads my blog and tells me what he thinks. He reads your comments too and even though he is not a big blog reader or commenter, he is getting to know bits and pieces about this blogging community of ours.

Big things and some small things but all of it keeps everything chugging in our little home.

Sometimes when the "two of us" becomes the "three of us" and then the "four of us", the "two of us" can get a little bit lost in the traffic jam. We don't mean for that to happen, it just does. We have planned a little one night getaway in a couple of months time, just so we don't forget the "two of us".

So I just wanted to share a pic of my beautiful man and me (bad res pic - sorry!)

He's been having a bit of a tough week so send a bit of blog love to the Captain will you?

Necessity as the mother of invention or how about some quiche?

This is not a food blog.
But I adore food. A little too much I think.
So when I discovered the tub of very lovely, very expensive smoked trout dip in the fridge with a next day expiry date I couldn't bear to waste it.
Given that I am doing my best to reduce my blogger butt, I decided that it wasn't the best plan to consume a whole tub of dip in an evening.
So the fridge rummage began in search of a solution.

And 8 eggs
whisked with the trout dip and half a cup of cream,
some chopped herbs,
some shortcrust pastry from the freezer,
a little bit of oven time
and we have this

It was delicious. The Captain and the Bowler mowed it down. The Batsman not so much. But that's ok.
I reckon you could make this with any flavour of cream cheese based dip....yum.

I love a bit of necessity as the mother of invention in the kitchen.
What has been your best (or worst) invention in the kitchen?