Slow Sunday

After all the sunshine yesterday,  the evening was punctuated with heavy rain storms. Heavy summer rain is a different beast to the rain of other seasons. The pungency of the scent of wet dust; the amplification of the rain falling through open windows, the drop in temperature as the rain breaks the humidity.

It certainly felt a cooler day today.

Our day started slowly with us all catching up on much needed sleep. I had invited friends gor lunch, but was a bit horrified when I looked in the fridge to find how few ingredients there were.... lots of eggs though!

I managed to pull together another frittata, (with potatoes from a pot in the garden!) Melanzana Parmagiano, a cous cous salad and some polenta chips. (They were not a great success as they fell apart in the frying pan!

Our friends brought lots of lovely dips, crisps and bread, so it ended up being a very substantial meal!

My lovely 10 YO is getting more adventurous with her baking by the day and made a delicious blackcurrant and redcurrant almond cake.

Sunday swim for the small girl who seemed to be having a relapse today,  but said "swimming always makes me feel happy" I can relate to that!


I haven't got a picture of the cake,  just the blackcurrants and redcurrants.