This picture tells a 1000 words

So this picture sums up my week. Between the Rosh Hashanah table flowers and the birthday balloon is my lunch. Most days it's a sandwich, but as i've eaten so much Yomtov rubbish lately — will the honey cake ever end(?!) — I tried to pull together something a bit more healthy.

A bag of precooked freekeh, some halved cherry tomatoes, a tin of smoked tuna and some basil. Topped with just a squeeze of lemon, its the most balanced thing i've eaten in days. On Monday, supper was the remnants of the birthday tea — old fashioned sandwiches and cake plus some crudites to ease my sugar-guilt.

I had to throw out the malteser-flavoured icing as it was too tempting to scoop from its plastic container. The recipe is from the Hummingbird cookbook, if you're interested and yes, the cupcakes — pictured below — were AMAZING. I plonked happy birthday candles in them so we could sing happy birhday to her. The proper cake — she has requested an Emoji cake (sigh) will be baked for her party in a couple of weeks time. Once upon a time I'd have made more than one cake. Too, too busy now.