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Pastry is fast becoming my favourite thing to bake

Pastry is fast becoming my favourite thing to bake - there’s something so luxurious about buttery pastry. This Galette des Rois was my first proper attempt at puff pastry and I am so chuffed with the flakiness (and a little bit in disbelief that it puffed up)☁️ I gave this bake away but kept a mini version for me (@sue_fuller_18 i’ll make one that we can share when I can visit) which I comfort ate after we finished Normal People, which I just think is so beautifully filmed and did the book complete justice. (I’m also obsessed with Marianne’s wardrobe which has prompted a lot of online browsing of second-hand/vintage shops).

So far I’m keeping up with my two bakes a week a

So far I’m keeping up with my two bakes a week as part of The Berry Project (in case you missed my last post, I’m aiming to bake my way through Mary Berry’s Baking Bible!)
I’ve ticked off the list Victoria Sponge, Basic White Meringue, Traditional Parkin and now Lemon Yoghurt Cake 🍋
If you look closely, you can see I had a slight battle getting it out of the tin and I managed to accidentally caramelise my candied lemon peel by taking my eyes off the saucepan for literally TWO minutes 🙈
That aside, this is my favourite Mary Berry bake so far - perfect if you have surplus yoghurt that needs using up. Blog post coming soon... 👩🏻‍🍳

Since lockdown started, baking is something that’s become part of my daily routine. It gives a kind of structure to my day and I’m loving learning new techniques and trying out new recipes, which I’m finding incredibly therapeutic (even when they don’t turn out as pictured in the cookbooks!) 👩🏻‍🍳 As I’m furloughed until July, I wanted to create a project to focus on. After watching Julie and Julia on Netflix (highly recommend if you haven’t seen it), I was thinking about who the equivalent to Julia Childs is in the baking world and for me, it has to be Mary Berry. She’s such a classy cook and has such a wealth of experience behind her. So over the course of two years, I’m going to be baking my way through her Baking Bible (which equates to about two bakes a week) and am going to be documenting each recipe on my blog - disasters as well as successes (of which they have already been a few). It’s a change in the content I usually make but as it’s become such an important, creative outlet it seems odd not to make it part of Edits of Jo.
I’m very much a home-cook and in no way an expert so I hope it will give you some inspiration as well as some giggles along the way!

It’s my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary in

It’s my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary in a few weeks time and we’ve been looking through some photos of when they were first married all those years ago.
The hairstyles, the 70’s clothing and the glasses have had us in giggles and it’s so interesting to see pictures of them in their youth after always knowing them as hugely loveable grandparents. They really epitomise what love is, standing by each other in sickness and in health.
I can’t wait to give them the biggest cuddle and hold them close when lockdown is over and it’s safe to do so 💛

Yesterday when sorting out another corner of our h

Yesterday when sorting out another corner of our home, I stumbled across some more film pictures of our time in Brighton. I quite like the moodiness of the shot, which must have been taken towards sunset time. It made me reminisce all over again about our trip there, which coincidently you can read all about on Edits Of Jo for a little travel daydream 🏖

Since being furloughed, I’ve had a bit more time

Since being furloughed, I’ve had a bit more time of my hands to do some more of the things I love.
It’s fair to say that with wedding planning and with lots going on at work, the blog has been neglected for a little while.
I’ve now had a chance to get back into writing which I’m so enjoying. I’ve just posted a piece about Brighton (link in bio) - I debated whether to hang on to post this as we’re still in lock-down in the UK and should be avoiding travelling but thought it might be nice to read as a form of escapism and might give you some inspiration if you’re planning a future trip there!
I’ve had a few waves of creativity in the past week and some thoughts about what direction I’d like the blog to go in so definitely watch this space ✨

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