Easter Weekend

As mentioned in this post, my form like to celebrate birthdays and during this half term three of the girls turn eighteen, seeing as we would be at home revising procrastinating during half term we thought we'd celebrate, M got her presents then but A and L get their presents when we get back because their birthdays are at the end of the holiday, and any excuse to eat.

M loves caterpillar cakes, so IK made her a homemade one!

And her wonderful mother Ismini (dream) made cheese pies..

Mmm.. Cheese pies...

 

And I made some oreo, cookie and marshmallow brownies, which then were covered with party rings, chocolate buttons and smarties.

 

 

 

As you can probably tell by all the pictures, I was a little over excited about the food but the best was yet to come...

Granny T is my close friend B's grandma, she is a domestic goddess and creates the most beautiful cakes for our birthdays, especially B's, here was her creation,

 

 

 

How amazing?!

 

Then it was time for presents, M has banned herself from buying clothing since August and she's done really well, so for her birthday we got her clothes!

 

 

 

 

I got a little too overexcited about the food and actually made myself ill.

Good one Lottie.

 

Then today was the annual Woolley Easter Egg Hunt.

My sister and I are the Easter bunnies, and we hide everyones and eachother's eggs, the rules are to find your own and to leave the ones that aren't your's.

 

 

The possibly over-used hiding place, the Lindt bunny in the old rabbit hutch.

 

 

 

 

 

Hiding my sister's egg in the woodshed, it didn't take her as long to find as I had hoped expected.

 

 

I found one of my rabbits hiding under a sapling.

 

 

Grandpa always gets the hardest hiding places, one of his was hidden here...

 

 

Luckily he managed to reach it (with the help of a stick) then we all headed inside to be rewarded with roast venison and roasted vegetables followed by Steph's cheesecake filled chocolate eggs made my J and I, they were gobbled down so quickly I didn't have the chance to take a photo.

I hope you all had a great Easter!







Cheese Pies

 

I was given this recipe by my greek friend's mother, IK always brought these in on birthdays and other occasions and I was hooked, smooth cheese wrapped in filo pastry, almost a cheese samosa.

 

Ingredients:

2 cups milk
1/2 cups semolina (or I used polenta, similar sort of thing)
50g butter
1 beaten egg
150g feta cheese (cut up into very small pieces)
1 pack of filo pastry sheets

 

Pour your two cups (or in my case mugs) of milk into a pan and heat gently.

 Then add the half cup of polenta and keep stirring constantly so no lumps form.

 

 

As you are stirring add your butter in, I put mine in solid and continued to stir until it had melted but that is up to you.

Add your beaten egg

Keep stirring until it noticably thickens, at which point take it off the heat and add your small bits of feta.

This is where I would advise you to chop it up very small, I should have listened to Ismini's advice...
Apologies for the less than appealing photo above, the saucepan was a little smaller than I had thought, but what's cooking without mishaps?

Next take a sheet of filo and quarter it, leaving 4 rectangles of pastry.
Then dollop about half a tablespoonful of the sauce into the corner of the pastry sheet.

Brush melted butter all over the surrounding pastry and begin folding in triangles.

Keep going until you reach the end and repeat until you run out of either the pastry or sauce.
Then put on a baking tray and put in the oven until golden.
Once golden and crispy put them on some kitchen towel to soak up any grease which will help prevent them getting soggy.

These keep for about 3 or 4 days, if they last that long.
They would also be great with something like chutney on the inside of the filo...!