1) Make more desserts
2) Drink more dessert wine (maybe that should be enjoy more..?)
3) Have more dinner parties
4) Drink less during the week
5) Get my 5km time to sub 30 mins
6) Do a Triathlon!
So you can see a couple of running themes - the first, to do with cooking and entertaining, and then the second to do with not getting fat whilst doing all that entertaining lol!
Why making more desserts - well actually this resolution could read 'Make desserts, don't buy them or get people to bring them' as that's generally where I get to at dinner parties, general parties or generic events.
I'm not a good finisher of anything and after planning savoury snacks and meals, cooking them and washing up, I can't face additional cooking. Now thinking about it maybe I'm just not a good planner as most desserts (as I'm learning!) require precise planning - the quantity of ingredients is key, especially when baking, and a lot need to be made ahead to set etc
So perhaps I'm not a great planner (or finisher?? hmm maybe being too drunk when hosting a party could be blamed for that - resolution 2 won't help this then!), anyway I've realised that my usual style of chucking what I've got in the pot/tray doesn't work with desserts and baking, and sometimes it doesn't work with savoury stuff either lol!
To keep me from ballooning over the course of attempting resolutions 1 & 2 the dinner party is a necessity - this allows to me to cook a 3 course meal and then not be eating the same food for a week - always a plus as otherwise I'll be throwing it out when I get bored....
Resolution 4 to drink less in the week is mainly as I've come to realise I can't bounce back from mid week hangovers anymore - work is just hell, so why do it?!! Think this will take a lot more practise and for New Zealand wine tastings to be scheduled on weekends rather than Tuesday nights before I can master this one - but its a good aim!
Which brings me to the 'active' resolutions, 4 &5 - I intend to get more into my running in 2012 seeing as I seem to have made progress on my knee injury from last autumn. So aiming to get my speed up, rather than endurance, but also to incorporate a range of disciplines such as cycling and swimming for an all over body work out.
Can't be bad that this extra exercise will allow me to sample my desserts!
So to look forward to from January 2012 I have:
Chocolate Torte (flourless chocolate cake from Gordon Ramsey)
Chocolate Mousse
Turkish Delight jellies
And Macaroon Madness!
The Camden Road Cook x
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