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lift the crumpet ring off the pancake then flip the pancake over and cook for about 2 minutes the other side you will find the pancakes end up about the same height as your crumpet ring repeat until you have used all your batteries if the first ones have gone a bit cold you can pop them back into the pan for a few moments on each side you really won t want more than 2 per person 3 at the very most if you are having brunch instead of lunch enjoy with your favourite toppings any leftover pancakes freeze very well let me know if you try making them and what your favourite topping is love mimi xxx finding my way back to the teapot august 14 2025 august 14 2025 mimisparkletini leave a comment pour yourself a cup of tea help yourself to a biscuit and let s catch up it s strange to think that the last time i truly wrote here the world was in a very different place i was too back in 2021 i pressed publish and thought i d be back again soon but the months quietly stacked themselves into years life has a way of sweeping us along doesn t it in that time there have been busy seasons and quiet ones new routines and old comforts rediscovered my mornings have changed lately they ve included a jam jar coffee ritual that has become a small grounding joy yes coffee in a jam jar more on that in my last post but there s still tea always tea in the background of my days mugs clutched during phone calls teapots steeping in the afternoons the sound of water just reaching a boil work wise i ve had a change or two for a few years i was at holdfast credit union in a small office with just me and the wonderful steph helping to support our local community last november i left a bittersweet decision but i didn t go far from our little office upstairs in the church building i moved downstairs to the church office itself where i m now happily working part time as church administrator at home time seems to be running as fast as the kettle just before it boils jessica now prefers to go by jess and has finished primary school and is ready to start secondary she sailed through her sats with flying colours but i m still adjusting to the idea of my baby heading off in her smart new blazer meanwhile little alice is starting juniors at primary school and i couldn t be more proud of her once shy and a very restricted eater she has blossomed into such a happy little soul open curious and full of life and my poor husband is still working far too much so the moments we do have together feel all the more precious when i look back i realise blogging was once an anchor for me a way to slow down reflect and share life s small details before they slipped away i ve missed that i ve missed you so i m dusting off the corners of this little online home and settling back in i can t promise daily posts or perfectly polished essays but i can promise to show up more often with the same gentle curiosity that first brought me here if you ve stayed subscribed all this time thank you if you re new welcome let s share the quiet moments together again one little sip at a time like a teabag resting in warm water i think i ve been quietly steeping these past few years gathering flavour colour and depth without even realising it now it s time to pour a cup take a seat and begin again and she s off august 14 2025 august 14 2025 mimisparkletini leave a comment in dusting off little sips of tea i have just found this post sitting in drafts that same little girl who was taking her first steps as i wrote this post is now 7 years old but i remember this moment so well and it says so much about alice that i wanted to share it tonight is the eve of alice turning 15 months earlier i had been looking at some lovely instagram posts by a lady with a little girl who at several months younger is walking and talking and i was feeling a bit glum then just now upstairs in the spare room ensuite alice stood up stark naked and took two wibbly wobbly steps in pursuit of some loo rolls to eat she won t eat food at the moment just loo roll tissues socks i feel so happy i try not to worry and not to compare but i do a fair amount of both i am sure she might not do it again for a while but i know she can do it now the other thing she has very recently learnt to do is to kiss they are great big smackeroos slightly toothy and dribbly and they mean the world to me other lovely things from a day which started with very little sleep alice is teething tea with some school mum friends sharing the joy of celebration rings hearing that simple abundance has been updated and will be released next week oh and only tomorrow and we are on half term i can t wait jam jar lattes august 14 2025 mimisparkletini leave a comment tea will always be my first love but over the past few years i have drifted into starting my day with a coffee a summer or two ago i was making blended iced coffees in the morning in went coffee ice some frozen avocado a spoonful of various powders and potions which promised health benefits a date for sweetness chia seeds it was delicious but i just don t have the energy for that these days i ve been in quite an extended wintering phase my depression has not always been well controlled and i have a lot of brain fog and fatigue so this summer my iced lattes have been a lot simpler and while they may not have all the nutritional benefits of those that came before they are perhaps closer to being a true iced coffee since i discovered the jam jar method i ve really settled into enjoying the morning ritual of making it and here is how you can too jam jar salted honey iced latte i use a nespresso machine to make my coffee make it directly into your jam jar but before you do this add a little no more than 1tsp honey or maple syrup to the bottom of the jar along with a little cinnamon and a pinch of salt i like flaky maldon sea salt and not just because i grew up there dispense the coffee on top add some ice cubes screw on the kid then shake shake shake usually i just pour cold milk on top of this and give it another quick shake but today i frothed the cold milk with some more cinnamon then poured it over i drink it straight from the jar i like the bonne maman ones best you can make endless variations to this adding perhaps some vanilla or using nutmeg maybe but the cinnamon honey combination is one i keep coming back to january pleasures january 3 2025 mimisparkletini leave a comment and so here we are in january as big ben begins to chime midnight each december 31st i always feel suddenly a little unprepared not quite ready to leave the old year behind yet when i wake up on january 1st that feeling has passed and i am ready to settle in to all the cosy pleasures that january has to offer the temperature has dropped and the mornings are icy cold so hot water bottles soft slippers cosy blankets and steaming pots of tea are in order we missed a bus yesterday and had a half hour wait in the cold for the next one so i popped into a cafe to buy a coffee for myself and hot chocolates for my girls it came to just under 10 i think it is time to rummage out our thermos flasks and start taking our own hot drinks out with us partly because it adds up very quickly to buy drinks out and partly because it feels like a little act of self care to take with us what we may need in a similar vein i batch cooked a huge chicken stew last night and then portioned it out and frozen them flat in bags a great tip from the full freezer book the portions of stew will have different things added to each of them which will turn them into stroganoff ish pie curry and italian ish chicken it feels so lovely knowing that i have those recipes waiting for me when i need them i will be batch cooking mince ragu this evening which will be treated in the same way a big theme for me for the coming year is doing things to make life easier more organised to feel supported and nourished today i shall be taking my girls to visit my mum having a browse of our favourite independent bookshop and treating myself to a new jar of marmalade wherever you are i hope that your teapot is full and your heart is happy love mimi xxx thoughts upon endings and beginnings july 20 2021 mimisparkletini 1 comment yesterday was freedom day as it was billed here in england it didn t feel much different for me i am choosing to live in much the same way as before i had the choice not to i don t quite understand the rationale behind lifting restrictions when our cases are rocketing so rapidly the government have said that as restrictions are lifted it will cause further increases in cases of covid apart from not wanting to catch it myself i want to know that as far as possible i have not done anything to put anybody else at risk i know that we must each make our own choices and i am not judging those who choose differently to a point anyway nothing will convince me that the films of crammed nightclubs with people squashed in like sardines is anything other than irresponsible instead i am trying to remember that all of us have lived through extraordinary and often harrowing times you d think the lifting of restrictions meant that it is all over but it feels that it is very far from that so what should be the beginning of the end doesn t really feel like it to me today was also the last day of term for jessica and not only the last day of term but her last day of infants when she returns in september she will be in year 3 and juniors how can this be i always feel emotional at the end of term and even more so at the end of the school year every year we have been lucky enough to have a teacher we have been sad to leave behind i keep reminding myself that it is the end of the school year but also the start of the summer holidays and then that lovely new year feeling awaits us in september i have been chain reading the chief inspector gamache series by louise penny and have just one more to read before i reach the end although happily there is a new one being published in the autumn they are set in a small canadian village called three pines and heavens i could just move there it sounds so delightful and having read fifteen of the books almost back to back i feel like the bistro and bookstore are just around the corner and that i know armand jean guy myrna clara and ruth it feels strange coming to the end of the series although i am glad to know that there will be more to come alice is turning there on saturday which feels like the end of early childhood too suddenly she is more of a preschooler than a toddler i think she is close to being ready to learn to use a potty or toilet too so the end of another era is on the horizon now i sit and think about it it does all really feel like endings and beginnings thankfully the main fabric stays the same family and friends tea and books writing letters crochet garden flowers homemade cake in the cake tins vintage cups and saucers wherever you are i hope you are safe and well and remain that way love mini xxx viola shortbread biscuits june 1 2021 mimisparkletini leave a comment at last at last over the past few months and increasing in the last few weeks i have my cooking and baking spark back again for so long it felt like i was going through the motions wading through treacle and it sapped what little energy i had but happily i have really bounced back i recently borrowed a mary berry book from the library which led me to making homemade bourbons and sultana flapjacks it was lovely sending carl and jessica off camping with tins of home baking i love having something homemade to offer people now that we may have the occasional visitor again mum sent me an idea on pinterest for pansy topped shortbread biscuits when i read the method i could not believe how easy it was and decided to give them a try mum kindly brought me some violas from her garden we realised that pansies would be too big and this was the result i think they look beautiful and all you do is press your violas between kitchen paper in a heavy book while you make and bake your shortbread i used a recipe from alice through the year which you can find on her website but it would work with any shortbread recipe once you have taken the shortbread biscuits out of the oven gently press a pressed viola onto each biscuit you do it while they are hot and the heat from the biscuit bonds the viola to it it really is as simple as that i sprinkled a little caster sugar over them to finish them off but you don t have to now that charity shops are open again i am going to keep my eye open for cake or biscuit tins so i can give tins of these as gifts and have the tin be part of the gift candle ends and breakfast cake may 28 2021 mimisparkletini leave a comment half term starts early for us as we have a non pupil day today i had my second covid vaccination on wednesday and whilst i am very glad to have had it i am definitely feeling the effects more this time and am glad of a slower day as we don t have to be out of the door for the school run i decided to make a breakfast which takes a bit more time than i usually have i baked an apple scone ring i have shared the recipe here a few times over the years and it suddenly came to mind that as i learnt to make it at secondary school i have been making this from time to time over a span of some 25 years now time feels like it is telescoping somehow i will have been married for 14 years this year and it is so our 20th anniversary of getting together i don t understand where time has gone i love lightning a candle at mealtimes especially breakfast time i think it sets a nice tone for the day we have quiet music playing elizabeth mitchell features a lot and it feels good however when i tried to light the stubby end of my beeswax candle this morning it kept going out i haven t bought a new one yet i get them from myriad natural toys the dinner candle when i am feeling poor and the pillar candle when funds are more abundant so i rummaged out this little candle instead it is a scented one which i usually avoid at mealtimes but this one is the inspiritus scent from st eval and it smells like church incense to me and i love it it is the end of a candle again though but it did mange to keep burning through breakfast time and so starts another day and another half term break from school i cannot fathom how this will be jessica s last half term as an infant and that next week she will be seven now for the rest of my cup of tea before taking the girls out to get some baking provisions in days of dandelions and daisies may 24 2021 mimisparkletini leave a comment beauty matters doesn t it not as in feminine beauty which society seems to equate with cosmetics and such things but beauty as in the natural world around us music art the gurgling laugh of a baby it is a truth so intrinsic to me that i struggle to articulate why it matters but matter it does i am reading sarah clarkson s new book on beauty and she is giving me much to think about there is so muc...