roast chicken and bill granger's gooey chocolate cake with raspberries

Thankfully after yesterday's extremely busy day, today we've only got two things on the horizon: Swimming at Brentford Fountains, and a late lunch/early dinner with the divine Miss Kate Smither. She's making her second appearance on the blog, which isn't bad for somebody who has been living in Melbourne for the past five years.

Anyway, swimming out of the way, we potter around whilst Ana makes what turns out to be the most complicated cake in the world ever. A cake which seems to require every bowl and sieve we've got. Despite it's genuinely Byzantine steps, it's an amazing triumph by Mrs Barnes!

I'm getting ahead of myself here though, *before* the cake we had a pretty hearty roast chicken dinner, with cauliflower cheese, cabbage, roast potatoes, honey roast parsnips and carrots. I even got to use my new gravy separator, although my suspected design flaw could have more to do with the fact we had to do three different runs to the off license.

The only way this evening can end any better is if we stay up to watch the midnight Miss Marple on ITV. Oh, yay!

sources
gooey chocolate cake with raspberries - Bill Granger, Feed Me Now, p230