Potato Topped Cauliflower Cheese With Meatballs And Pesto

Wednesday was any ordinary day I had planned what we were going to eat but the jar of white sauce I was going to use was horrifically out of date it said October 2013. My powers of time travel are some what limited so going back in time wasn't going to work this time.

1 cauliflower 

500ml of semi skimmed or skimmed milk

4 tablespoons of plain flour

50 g of low fat spread 

12 meatballs 

3 medium potatoes 

50g low fat cheese grated.

2 tablespoons of pesto .

First sieve the flour into a saucepan

Add the 500 ml of milk

Add the 50 g of low fat spread 

Gently heat 

As the spread starts to melt whisk for 2 minutes.

And your sauce should come together smoothly.

Add your 50 g of low fat cheese.

If you find your sauce is to thick just add a little more milk till it is the consistency that you want it to be. Set the sauce to one side

Next cook your chopped up cauliflower around 5 minutes should do it.

Put your cauliflower at the bottom of an oven proof dish.

You can if you wish flour your meatballs first and gently brown them off in a frying pan.

Add to the cauliflower cheese mixture.

Layer the sliced potato over the mixture .

Put the completed dish in the oven for 45 minutes to an hour. 

About 15 minutes before the end of your cooking time drizzle pesto over your dish and return to the oven.

Moments That Mattered

My 2013 for the most part was horrible and it wasn't till my holiday in Florida Orlando that I began to relax all that tension just flooded away into the Florida blue skies. Even thing looks better in sunshine ; like sunshine on a rainy day . I bet you feel like singing now don't you?

So my life had gone from zero to hero again I was my families hero again .

Dear Family 

I am sorry I robbed you of joy and happiness for so long, it was a situation I couldn't cope with, it was if you didn't know who you were living with. I wasn't a wife and I didn't feel life a mother I felt like a prisoner in my soul. I felt as if I had failed you and had built up walls between us I felt sad.

 I knew that you were there but I had a fog over my eyes that didn't lift till we were on holiday. And then my walls of resentment and hurt began to crumble ; moments of importance had been lost in the fog of my worry and woe before.

And now I saw our moments as moments that mattered ,our holiday mattered and I did my utmost to make it work and it did. I smiled, I laughed I even let my picture be taken, I fed a stingray I didn't panic when I lost something . We were family; we were the ones we mattered, it was our moments mattered and I look back at bad times only a little just a little knowing I can move further forward.

I look forward to our holiday this year and making more moments that matter. And you have me a wife a mother and moments that mattered from last year and yet to come.

Yours Claire

Thank you to Lloyds Bank for helping me relive my moments that mattered. I am being sent some vouchers in conjunction with this post.

Yale Home Security

Yale the home security firm that's helping me put confidence back in me feeling secure in my home . My sense of security was violated earlier this month ; when someone attempted to break into my home in the early hours of the morning . I have since stepped up my security even more from security lights outside to door chair and a letter box restrictor.

The Yale letterplate restrictor allows you to restrict the opening of the letter-plate on the inside of your external doors, rendering any letter-plate related security threats ineffective and reducing the risk of access to internal locks and keys. The restrictor also prevents anyone from looking inside your house through the letterbox. This device is adjustable to allow full closure, part restriction, or full opening.

• Restricts the opening of the letter plate on the inside of the door
• Prevent visibility of occupancy
• Reduce the risk of access to internal locks and keys
• Adjustable to allow full closure, part restriction or full opening
• Surface mounted and simple to fit

Disclosure I was sent the letterbox restrictor but I brought the door chain myself.

A Bag Of Nervous Nuns

Though honestly I am more relaxed.

It still seems.

That people think I'm a bag of nervous nuns.

I think I must need to practice my humorous faces.

SO how to you practice an outwardly I'm ok face ... even though you are ok inside.

But have a reputation for being more nervous that a chocolate tea pot .

Yours puzzled

Silly Cycle Silliness Matters

Blowing the cobwebs away .

A simple cycle .

May not be exciting to some .

But to me it's pure joy , elation and sets my mind joyfully free.


And when no one is looking .


And I am on one of the lanes that I love.


I start at the top of the little hill take my feet off the petals.

And go wheeeeeeeeeeee ....


Because quite frankly silly things matter.


Yours Claire aged a lot more than 4 a shimmy past 20 and a massive gallop past 30.