Kitchen (Mis)Adventure - Car Cake Catastrophe

As far as kitchen misadventures go this one is an epic failure of Titanic proportions. Bubby and I were supposed to bake a chocolate car cake for hubby's birthday. I've talked it up for days and he was excited to make an Uncle Topolino cake for daddy.

This is Uncle Topolino for those of you who have never seen Cars 2 or don't have a boy.

Now you're probably wondering how can you possibly get a ready-mix cake wrong, right? Well, lets start from the very beginning, the very best place to start. (Sound of Music fan much?) First we begin with cake mix, water, oil and eggs. Mix with an electric mixer for a few minutes, pour in a cake tin and pop in a pre-heated oven. Check, check, check.

We then left it to do it's thing and that's when things went wrong.

The silicone cake mould collapsed and the cake mix spilled. Luckily, I decided to check how it was going after about 5 minutes. I was able to somewhat salvage it.

Not looking promising.

The rest of the cake.

The important thing is Bubby still think it looks like Uncle Topolino.

If Uncle Topolino fell into a ditch. A ditch the size of a canyon.

Kitchen (Mis)Adventure - Beef. Red Wine and Roast Vegetable Pie

This is frozen meal with a difference. One of hubby's colleagues had some ready made dinners delivered for us. It's from a company called Dinner Ladies. Their website is pretty funny.

Frozen state.

In the oven.

Halfway there.

Big chunks of flavorsome, very tender juicy beef and vege.

Nothing really went wrong in the making of this dinner and all I had to do was crack and whisk an egg and turn on the oven, I think we'll be coming back for more.

Kitchen (Mis)Adventure - Breakfast Anytime.

When I was pregnant I craved a big breakfast of eggs, toast, sautéed mushroom, tomatoes and spinach. It would seem I still crave it. I don't have time to cook in the morning during the week so I today I had it for lunch. I've decided to cut down on dairy in case it's what's causing Chububby to have wind pains so instead of using full cream milk for my scrambled eggs I used soy milk.

I'm not sure soy milk is the way to go. It made the scrambled egg sweet. It wasn't bad but it's not the same. It's also not as fluffy and looked weird.

I was in such a hurry to eat that I forgot the smoked salmon until I've finished the lot.

I still have a bit of dairy in the form of butter and dessert. I said I was cutting down on dairy not eliminating it.