January 2009 Archives - American Mom in England

Blueberry Muffins

Posted 30 January 2009 by Erin Lee

So at last I’ve found a blueberry muffin recipe that I really, realy like. It’s not too sweet or too tangy, but just right! It’s from this cookbook:

The recipe follows below with some minor changes. . . =)

Ingredients: 55 g Butter or Margarine (1/4 Cup) 225 g Plain Flour (2 Cups) [Read more...]

Music, life and never-ending dishes. . .

Posted 29 January 2009 by Erin Lee

This past week at my house things have simply been sort of ‘blah’. . .

Nicholas has a cold that won’t budge, and the dishes that need washing up simply seem to keep multiplying when I leave the room. . .

Monday morning, Nicholas and I went and got pastries for breakfast, got the [Read more...]

Simple Devotion: 28 January 2009

Posted 28 January 2009 by Erin Lee

For Today…Dear Lord,

I bring you my shortcomings… my struggles to keep my house neat and clean. . . and failings at not making a daily devotional time for myself. . . help me to change!

I bring you my worship and praise… thank you for a son who is very good almost all [Read more...]

This will be the third week I’ve planned a menu and made my grocery list off of it. . . and I must say that at the end of the week we’re now longer throwing out fresh vegetables that have gone bad! This makes me really happy and makes my budget happy as [Read more...]

Pissaladiere

Posted 23 January 2009 by Erin Lee

For the first time tonight I made pissaladiere which my cookbook describes like this: A French Mediterranean classic. This is a delicious and colourful tart full of punchy flavour. I must say that I agree.

This is what mine looked like:

As I almost never stick exactly to a recipe, I’m going to [Read more...]

Introductions. . .

Posted 23 January 2009 by Erin Lee

I love to cook and bake and try out new recipes from both sides of the Atlantic and I needed a place to record my culinary adventures so Transatlantic Recipes has been born.

When I post recipes, I will try to post both UK and US measurements and ingredients. Since the UK measures [Read more...]

A little blue car, the bus, and tears. . .

Posted 21 January 2009 by Erin Lee

So, this week has been going fairly well. I’ve been sticking to our meal plan and we’ve all really enjoyed it. On the house cleaning front I’m almost back on top of the kitchen again and the livingroom will be great again once we find a home for all the stuff we pulled out [Read more...]