This week the weather was miserable and so the Sisters came to mine for lunch.  I was planning to try and recreate our afternoon tea from Prested Hall – without the frozen scones and stale sandwiches (or maybe with, just for an authentic experience!) – but decided it was too tall an order last minute so I opted for one of my current favourites: pasta in a creamy, cheesy pesto sauce with peas and garlic flatbread.  The pasta element is basically a steal from the Pioneer Woman  – https://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/pasta-with-pesto-cream-sauce/ – with a few tweaks: walnut-basil pesto and cheddar as well as parmesan.  It is pretty yummy, and probably pretty calorific too!!

For the flatbread I used this recipe – https://www.recipetineats.com/easy-soft-flatbread-yeast/ – which is really easy and yeast-free.  These were premade and had already been fried so I just smothered it in garlic butter before letting it sizzle in the oven for 10 minutes.

    

Sister Y’s offspring had finally forgiven her for her faux pas of last week and she celebrated by bringing her fave cake from Aldi – Sicilian Lemon Swiss Roll – which was really scrummy for a shop bought cake.  So scrummy, in fact, that we ate the whole lot .. oops!  To be fair, I did cut three modest portions but we decided there was no point leaving any for my lot to fight over so we did the sensible thing and polished it off!

So, carbed up to the max, we somehow got on to the subject of Theresa May’s dancing – don’t ask me how.  We don’t really do politics in the Sisterhood as we are all fairly different in our political views but we were all in firm agreement that, regardless of her performance on Brexit or other political conduct, we felt sorry for her on a purely human level with all the negative backlash.  The poor woman was basically damned if she did and damned if she didn’t.  Had she stood and watched, motionless and detached, people would have said she was boring and miserable.  So we of the Sisterhood applaud you, Theresa, for attempting to get your groove on and then being able to laugh at yourself for it (and obviously our opinion is of great importance) – ‘keeeeeeep dancing!’ xx