Recipe of the week - Easy Peasy Baba Ganoush

 Homemade baba ganoush

 Served with sticky ribs, chargrilled curried chicken and salad

Super sunny blossom in our garden

This Sunday saw the passing of our first BBQ of the year, any sign of sun and Honey's daddy is marinading meats and soaking wooden skewers for any chance of a BBQ which we have now added a new accompaniment to.
This super easy baba ganoush not only looks like you've made a huge effort whilst entertaining but is super easy, delicious and healthy. Charring the aubergines over a direct flame gives the dip a lovely smokey flavour.
It is perfect for picnic food, scrummy as a starter to dip warm flatbread in and amazing with sweet, barbecued lamb.

Ingredients
3 large aubergines,
2 crushed garlic,
Juice of a small lemon,
2 large tbsps tahini
3 large glugs/tbsps olive oil
Pinch of cayenne pepper
Handful of chopped parsley
Salt and pepper to taste

Pierce the skins of the aubergines with a fork then grill for 10 minutes over a hot coal BBQ or place directly onto the flame of a gas hob, till the skin has charred and the flesh is very soft.
Let them cool for 5 minutes then peel the charred skin from the aubergines. Finely chop the flesh and mix with the rest of the ingredients, garlic, lemon juice, tahini paste, pinch of cayenne, chopped parsley and olive oil and a grinding of salt and pepper to taste.
Serve trickled with olive oil, a few parsley leaves and pomegranate seeds.

First hair cut

It was a momentous week this week, not only has Honey's daddy had his bicep reattached after snapping it in a rugby game, but Honey had her first hair cut. I don't know why it made me emotional but seeing her sitting there all grown up in the hairdressers chair seemed to signalled the end of the baby era and the start of the toddler in a couple of snips of the scissors. And that is all it really was, a couple of snips as the hairdresser cut her a "side-sweeping fringe" (I didn't want too much off or she may have resembled a Lego man crossed with Susan Boyle, never a good look). So we left the Trotters, the baby hairdresser with a First Haircut certificate in hand and a toddler in the other; bring on the terrible twos.

Review - Waitrose Baby Bottom Butter

Last week I purchased my first (yes I know a little behind the times) pot of Waitrose' sell-out Baby Bottom Butter, but to be fair I didn't have a baby to pretend to buy it for before now, and when ordering it on Ocado, is always out of stock, grrr. Anyway, sneakily pretending I had bought it to smooth and pamper Honeys bot, I have been secretly slathering it on my face on an evening. It is divine I'm not going to lie. It is light and smooth to the touch, uber pure (only four ingredients including olive oil, vanilla and camomile oil), not at all heavy and sinks in to leave my skin feeling plump and youthful, perfect now winter is just round the corner. At £2.49 it really is a bargain and feels like a heavenly little secret I have been let in on now I am in the mummy club. Oh and it does also keep Honeys bottom in tip top shape when the sudocrem has run out!