1st February 2026

So my January challenge is over and we ended the month by cooking 36 new recipes from 31 different books. I really enjoyed it actually, I was trying to make sure that our evening meals were ones that would not keep us in the kitchen too long after a long day, but also were healthy. All in all I think it went really well and in a weird way I am going to miss it. 

Matt was returning to uni today and we could not leave until lunchtime because he had work, so I new by the time I got home I was not going to feel like doing anything requiring lots of pan juggling and effort.  Getting Matt to uni even if everything works out perfectly is still a 2 hour round trip. Believe me I know it is not that bad and could be so much longer but driving is tiring. Then in the fridge was a block of red fox chilli and Rhona suggested a new spicy take on macaroni cheese. Oh my gosh did it work well! It was cheesy comforting, had a slight bite and just YUM! So yum I had to stop myself returning to the pot for more. The sign of a very good dish when you know you could quite happily dive in all over again.