The Susanne

First a happy sur­prise: last night mum bought tick­ets to Sicilia for The Sister and I! We leave on Tues­day and will be gone for a week. It still hasn’t really sunk in yet, in fact it feels like a bad case of morn­ing after anxi­ety. Like I was very drunk last night and may not be remem­ber­ing things cor­rectly. But it is true, we are going. Yey! I’ve never been to Sicilia before, nor to Italy at all, and I’m well excited! Will be bring­ing the camera but no com­puter, so there will most likely be about ten new posts up all at once in about two weeks time.. I’m excited to see some of the castles and things from medi­eval times. And the beaches, of course. And I can’t wait to sample the food! Ohhh my good­ness. My mouth is water­ing just at the thought of it!

Speak­ing of food — I woke up this morn­ing crav­ing scones. Now, that is itself is weird on sev­eral levels as 1) I don’t think I’ve ever actu­ally had scones before and 2) scones are made with loads of butter and milk, and thus inev­it­ably make me sick. But I scoured the inter­net for a simple recipe and found one at Smit­ten Kit­chen, and then I set to work. I’m not sure how the dough was sup­posed to be before cook­ing but I do have a feel­ing mine was a little runny. Well, maybe not runny but it was def­in­itely not dry and as soon as I got the scones in the oven they seemed to melt a little. And I know for sure that scones are sup­posed to be much higher than mine, which in fact turned out more like scone cook­ies. But they still tasted divine. Mmmm… I only man­aged one before my stom­ach felt like it was throw­ing some sort of satanic party and I was the guest of honour (read: sac­ri­fice) and I had to capit­u­late. But, it was worth it. It was so light and fluffy and deli­cious, lovely and crumbly yet moist at the same time. I had mine with straw­berry jam and it was simply per­fect. No wonder I craved it…

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