Happy Birthday Joe.
Joe and Rhonda came to see us last weekend. It had been Joe's Birthday during the week so we decided to have a little party for him.
We blew up balloons and went to town making lots of food we thought he would like. We started with Irish brown bread and salmon. Not as good as Mum makes it in Dublin but I can always blame the Australian flour can't I! Cian didnt seem to mind and tucked right in!
Then we made some cookies and a trifle with lots of custard and raspberries finished off with a load of cream and sprinkles. 
When Joe text to say he was running an hour late getting to us I decided I had time to try a new cake from an Australian recipe book Jane gave me. It was for a Dark Chocolate mud cake with Chilli Cherries! Yum! The recipe said to add some Bourbon to the cake or substitute with a favourite whiskey. Out came the bottle of good old Irish Jameson and a healthy amount went in the saucepan with the melting dark chocolate. We used chillies from our chilli tree in the garden and the chilli fumes coming out of the saucepan were killing us! The end result was a rich chocoholics dream with a spicy sting in the tail!
Happy Birthday Joe, We hope you didn't need to put the toilet paper in the fridge the next day!!!
