Mork & Mindy

the heart is upside down, can you flip your head?

I awoke early this morning with a mission. A mission to make some scones for Mandy as part of my Valentine’s gift. Scones are surprisingly easy to make. Preparation was about 15 minutes, cooking the same.

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk

Method

1. Set oven at 220 C
2. Rub butter into flour and salt using fingertips
3. Mix into a soft dough using most of the milk. Add a little more of the milk if required
4. Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead for a short time, until smooth
5. Roll out until 2cm thick and cut into 12 shapes using a round cutter
6. Arrange on oven tray and glaze tops with milk
7. Bake for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown. To test, see if the sides of the scone are set
8. Cool on a tray

As an extra feature, I mixed together some flour, water and pink food die to make some ‘food ink’ that I then used to draw heart shaped patterns on top of the scones.

Bundled the scones together with some cream and jam, and then met Mandy in a park near her house to eat them. It was a lovely breakfast, and she seemed happy with the effort I put in.

Mark and I had a very fun Valentines Day doing not much and eating lots.

My present for him was felt dolls of me and him, which I had spent about 2 weeks on!  The stitching was pretty bad (and visible to boot) but I guess they were good enough.  Mark seemed happy to receive them :)

v-day present for Mark; felt heart card

I made a little bag out of flannel material I found in my grandmother’s scrap fabric box.  In it I put the dolls and also a little red felt heart.

Dolls - Mark and Mandy

We made lamb burgers for lunch – super tasty! :D  Toast with tomatoes, lettuce, lamb mince patties, cheese and sauce in between.  I put double cheese on mine because I’m a glutton. The burger was far too large for my mouth, and I ended up getting globs of sauce all over my face!

Burgers - the taller one is mine! (of course)