Winter has set in with a vengeance - cold, dark and wet which has meant more time at home and even time to do a spot of baking. Made a small Dutch apple cake so I could make the right amount of pastry in my cute little Mini Whizz without doing it by hand or getting out the food processor.
The date loaf is easy to make too and can be done in a bowl with a wooden spoon. Last week I added fresh Christchurch walnuts I got from the Orewa Farmers Market , this week I used some Central Otago dried apricots as a taste or texture contrast.
Went to the lunchtime concert in the library this week. It was St Mary's College girls with their sweet voices , conducted by the ever-enthusiastic Carmel Carroll. ( Any relation, A?)
I enjoyed their rendition of various Rutter songs and borrowed some CDs from the library afterwards to extend and savour the experience at home.
Went to the movie Woman in gold yesterday , all about the quest to get back a Klimt painting which had been stolen by the Nazis. I remembered seeing several Klimt paintings, probably not this one,on our visit to Vienna some years ago when on a Danube Cruise.
Must read more about Klimt.
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