The very last recipe!!!!

Yesterday - February 9 th - and my very last recipe from The Kitchen Diaries Two was completed. A sad day, the whole year has been a wonderful learning curve, my skills have improved enormously and so has my confidence. It has taken many hours of researching to find some ingredients, lots and lots of washing up, time spent enjoying the cooking and the tasting and trying out new recipes on friends. 

So yesterday and a chapter headed "A little brown stew for a little brown day" , the recipe, A little brown stew of mushrooms and spelt. 

The stew is made with mushrooms and spelt ( a grain we have used before and really like) Mushrooms are my husband's favourite, and following a rather wet and chilly walk in the sculpture park this morning, this was the ideal lunch. Quick to prepare and cook ( about 30 mins) this is a tasty, filling and quite rich meal 

And so now, what next? A whole year and 247 recipes completed, most of them photographed and all of them blogged about. 

Mr Slater says he is a " quietly enthusiastic and slightly greedy...." cook and that he " ...cares about what he feeds himself and others " I quite agree, making good food is a pleasure and with his help I no longer need a picture of the recipe to inspire me ( and of course taste is better than appearance !!!!) 

But what will I do with my time now ( it has been very time consuming, becoming an all enveloping hobby ) ?

I will keep cooking, perhaps trying to invent recipes of my own and I will keep blogging. 

Did I mention my husband bought me Eat - The little book of fast food by Nigel Slater !!!!!!!