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For those of you that are sick of mince pie reviews and want to see more of Samuel I’ve included a collage of pictures.
The bottom left is the most recent with top middle being the oldest.
Sainsbury's Mincemeat Puffs
We were back at Sainsbury’s again today and couldn’t find a new pie to try so ended up buying these.
Jessica:
Lovely pastry with nice chunky bits of sugar and sweet mince meat make this a tasty alternative to traditional mince pies. 4 out of 5
Richard:
I’m not totally convinced by this seasonal snack – it feels closer to a sausage roll than a mince pie. 3 out of 5
We had some announcements today at work and I can now say that I work at BBC Research & Development (again).
Exceedingly Merry
Today we have a Mr Kipling exceedingly merry mince pie.
Jessica:
I like the Christmas tree on top but the pie itself is not the best 2 out of 5
Richard:
The pastry is very nice but far too crumbly and the filling is deep but not as juicy as I would like. I expected more from the Kipling 2.5 out of 5
Overall, a dissapointing pie – I expected so much more 🙁
For all those interested in Sam’s weight gain I thought I would start posting about it here. I’ll also try to include a new picture of Sam to make it more interesting.
Drum roll please…
Sam is now at the grand weight of: 4.12kg!
During the past year I’ve let my blog get all dusty and unloved, life has been hectic and sorting out the blog was one of the things that fell off my to-do list. Hopefully all that will now be changing as my life now should give me enough time to do a little blogging – however I may not have too much worth posting about as for the moment my social life is a little limited. Rich has set me up with this new shiny WordPress blog which should hopefully be a lot easier to update (once a few bugs have been ironed out) than my old blog was where I hand coded every post.
Why is my social life limited at the moment? Because I have a beautiful baby boy to look after! Baby Sam is a fantastically cute and super intelligent little boy (I may be a tiny bit biased here… but only a tiny bit) who is now about 2 months old. The birth was not much fun (I won’t get into the detail here – but if you are curious check out my husband’s account of it on his blog) thankfully Sam was healthy and we are now both doing really well. This blog may well become a bit of a record of Sam’s early life as right now that is all I have to talk about really – but hopefully there will be other news to report as well.
Sainsbury's Pie
This time we have bought a more standard mince pie from Sainsburys in-store bakery and have a guest reviewer.
Jessica:
Crumbly and delicious… you can taste the shortbread goodness. 4 out of 5
Richard:
More traditional than the previous offering from Sainsburys. A little shallow but very nice pastry. 4 out of 5
Guest rating (Richard B):
Better than the standard Sainsburys ones. 3.5 out of 5
Sainsbury's Pie
This time we have a pie kindly bought for us by Steve. The pie is from Sainsbury’s in-store bakery.
Jessica:
Flake-tastic… lovely buttery flakey pastry with a sweet mincemeat inside. 5 out of 5
Richard:
Lovely sweet pastry with a hint of coconut. Not a huge amount of mince and unsure whether it is really a pie but still deserves 5 out of 5.
Trying out the WordPress application for the iPhone. Will try adding a picture of snowy Kingswood.
Hi, just wanted to share this picture of Sam at Christmas. Jessica crocheted this lovely hat for him. As always, click on the image below for a full size version.
