I love reading a new recipe that sounds good, making it and finding that it is as delicious as imagined! This is Brownie Banana Bread ready for the volunteers at Community Roots tomorrow.
Eating a slice this evening, I was reminded of a poem we used to share with Ti, Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen. It became one of her favourites. Here is the start of it….
Last night’s concert was a success in so many ways. As I wrote last night, the audience loved us but perhaps even better was the generosity of everyone there. We were collecting for our two charities, ShelterBox and our local food bank, CPR. We collected £800 though tickets and raffles! We also asked everyone to bring a contribution for the food bank and when taken to the centre there were over two trollies full!
Thanks to Richard for the photo.
I collected 250g of Autumn fruiting raspberries from our allotment on Sunday on the same day that Nigel Slater published a delicious sounding recipe, Raspberry and Apple Crisp. It was delicious!
It was a quiet morning by the river in Penryn and the reflections were lovely, showing no sign of the storm to come. 
I do love a good pie! This one was Chicken and Leek and was delicious.
The storm is now on its way as shown by our Sailor’s barometer.
We left the hotel where we’ve been for a couple of delightful sunny and relaxing days but before we did, I took some photos of some of the lovely blooms in the garden.
On the way home we stopped off at Maenporth for a short walk on a very windy morning. 
It’s Pasty Day in town tomorrow so I made a Coffee Cake, as usual, for the special market.
The sewing team have been at it again and the boat is nearly full. There’s some finishing off but we’re nearly there. 
The lovely Mr S harvested another big pile of raspberries today from the allotment. Some we ate at lunchtime and some I baked into a Raspberry Meringue Cake – delicious.
It’s September already and here is this month’s Happiness Calendar for you all.
For lunch today we had just harvested home-grown corn-on-the-cob, very simply with a little salt and butter.
It was the birthday party of our lovely neighbour today and everyone contributed to a potluck birthday tea. I made a Lime and Ginger Cheesecake and decorated it with calendula flowers and beautiful blue borage flowers. You can find the recipe here. 
We went for an early morning walk with my camera.
Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillarHey everybody, it’s LiveWire3 and I’m glad to be back as the guest blogger. It was our first full day in Cornwall and me and my brother’s first time at surf school. We had waves of fun and exhaustion while tumbling and crashing. I almost stood up! LiveWire2 (my brother) however, was an expert, standing up on the waves like he ruled the world. As you can see we carried our surf boards back to base with hardship and determination.
Granny and I made a delicious lemon and chocolate cake (an unusual mix, I know)! I whizzed the batter until it was fluffy as a cloud, poured in the chocolate chips, folded them in and painted the lemon icing on the cake like an oil painting. It was perfectly tart and sweet, hitting a nerve in your brain that made you dream of heaven yet scrunch your nose up. Grandgrand mixed the icing!
I saw a recipe last week that looked and sounded delicious – Juicy Peach Raspberry Cake – and I made it today. It did taste good but didn’t look as good as the original. My peaches were white not orange which made a difference but I was able to use some of our own raspberry crop which is excellent this year.
Our Lily buds have opened at last. Their scent is filling the garden.
We went by Truro today and the flower display along the dual carriageway is wonderful. I took this photo from a moving car and although out of focus I love the serendipity of it looking as if the car has a roof full of flowers!
We harvested our own onions today at the allotment and put them out to cure.
Of course, there were more courgettes to harvest too so I’ve made more of Kath’s Soup and we had Courgette Bhajis with our evening meal.
There was a leaf like a tiny vertical sculpture in the front garden today.
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