Tonight I've been cooking Samosa's with Alex's fiancee, she wanted to learn so we had a go cooking this evening. After about an hour of preparation and cooking we had a selection of potato and pea samosas and marginally smaller cheese ones - ok, they weren't quite triangular, not all of them, some were more pastry than filling, but hey! it was our first attempt.
The reason for all our hard work was to prepare a feast for our pre-creaster buffet tonight. What is Creaster? I hear you ask, well, in order for you to understand my thinking, you have to learn a bit of family history. I am Muslim in belief and have been so for the last 3 years - however, no-one else in my family is of any particular religious jurisdiction. I am also self employed as a Maternity Practitioner (a newborn specialized Mary Poppins) and tend to work away from the family home for several weeks at a time.
Tom (my eldest) is now fully ensconced in Acting school (I'm not allowed to call it University for some odd reason) and Alex has other interests on his mind (fiancee) and therefore Christmas last year was apparently a bit of a limp affair. It's now March and Easter will soon be upon us - but again, no-one's going to be around, so I thought we'd lump the two events together even though we don't celebrate the religious aspect, we do tend to celebrate, just because we're a family. So, this year - we're having easter eggs on top of the yule log, I'm wrapping my gifts brought from afar even though they're just tee-shirts saying " I woz in Paris!" or some such slogan, and camel ornaments etc, and tomorrow we'll have turkey and all the trimmings (just because I'm muslim, why can't I go mad and cook a massive christmas dinner?) and call it Creaster! Religiously, it means nothing, personally it means the world as it means my (rapidly expanding) family are together and I'm once again a happy mother, "clucking" around her children.
The reason for all our hard work was to prepare a feast for our pre-creaster buffet tonight. What is Creaster? I hear you ask, well, in order for you to understand my thinking, you have to learn a bit of family history. I am Muslim in belief and have been so for the last 3 years - however, no-one else in my family is of any particular religious jurisdiction. I am also self employed as a Maternity Practitioner (a newborn specialized Mary Poppins) and tend to work away from the family home for several weeks at a time.
Tom (my eldest) is now fully ensconced in Acting school (I'm not allowed to call it University for some odd reason) and Alex has other interests on his mind (fiancee) and therefore Christmas last year was apparently a bit of a limp affair. It's now March and Easter will soon be upon us - but again, no-one's going to be around, so I thought we'd lump the two events together even though we don't celebrate the religious aspect, we do tend to celebrate, just because we're a family. So, this year - we're having easter eggs on top of the yule log, I'm wrapping my gifts brought from afar even though they're just tee-shirts saying " I woz in Paris!" or some such slogan, and camel ornaments etc, and tomorrow we'll have turkey and all the trimmings (just because I'm muslim, why can't I go mad and cook a massive christmas dinner?) and call it Creaster! Religiously, it means nothing, personally it means the world as it means my (rapidly expanding) family are together and I'm once again a happy mother, "clucking" around her children.
Samosas needed more curry flavoring - I'm off to get more filo pastry and I'll make some more - I'm never one to give up easily :)
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