Easter Sunday Lunch

Easter Sunday Lunch

Decided on slow cooked lamb shanks in Guinness and purée for Easter lunch.

A bit of prep and then into the slow cooker, looks impressive, but not that much effort. The best kind of lunch 😊

Chopping the onions trying not to cry too much 😊

Browning the lamb shanks.

Into the slow cooker and ready to ‘walk away’.

Pear

A quick study of a pair using the default pastel brushes.

Pastel Doodle

Even before I tried the Procreate tutorials, I opened the app occasionally to play around a bit.

I feel like there’s a bit of a double challenge, the app itself, switching to a digital format with layers and digital brushes has its own learning curve, but also just drawing itself. I haven’t really drawn in ages and almost feel I have to relearn how. Nothing like some practice and also remembering not to take things too seriously or get discouraged 😊

Used the default Procreate pastel brush for this “study of an apple”. Done sometime last year.

Purple Flower

Since there was a sale I decided to grab some watercolour brushes too. Followed Bardot’s short tutorial to get a sense of how they work.

Procreate Tutorial Two

Followed up with the second Procreate tutorial. Getting a little better at following the video instructions on this one.

Tomato Soup

I remember being quite bored with all the soups my mom made, then, once I was on my own I noticed how many soups I ended up making 😊

Most of the time I don’t really follow a strict recipe, although for this tomato one I use a Bobby Flay recipe I found online ages ago. The only real change is that I use an immersion blender, it saves a lot of cleaning.

Needed a lot of tomatoes so grabbed some from Costco. After some roasting I finished off the recipe on the stove, blended everything and it was ready to serve.