Introducing myself to online blogging

I've been wanting to start blogging online for many months but was always to unsure how to start or what I could write about.  However, so many times friends/acquaintences would to reply to to my emails commenting with a "thanks for the chatty letter" or a "... see you still as chatty as ever".  Oh dear I thought which was made worse with hubby agreeing that I always end up writing a book and not a couple of lines! So I'm going to take this opportunity of apologising to all those recipients and hope that by blogging it will use up all my writing energy!

To try and be creative with my blogging address has taken all afternoon as I scoured the internet to find a suitable African name but all the ones I wanted were taken.  Eventually I came up with "am-ikhaya" which roughly translated from Xhosa means "my home" or "my family" and that's what my blog is hopefully going to be about.  My home life and my sometimes crazy family!

Today I am craving chocolate and there is nothing in the house! I have gone for a whole week without chocolate in my desperate attempt to loose the festive period weight that somehow found its way to my stomach, hips and thighs.  Then I remembered a recipe that a friend emailed me many years ago - chocolate pudding in a mug! But I've lost the recipe as my old PC crashed last week but thank you, thank you internet as I've found it.  All I need to do is pop out for the chocolate and ice cream and then I'm away.  Thought I would share the recipe:

Chocolate Pudding in a Mug

Ingredients:

4 tbsp self-raising flour                                                           4 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp cocoa                                                                          1 egg

3 tbsp milk                                                                             3 tbsp oil

3 tbsp chocolate chips                                                            1 tsp vanilla

1 tbsp liqueur of your choice (optional)

Method:

Get a big mug.  Add flour, sugar, cocoa and mix well.  Add egg and mix again followed by milk and oil. Mix well.  Add chocolate chips and vanilla mixing well before placing in microwave on a plate.  Cook for ± 2 to 2½ minutes.  Don't panic if it goes over the top.

Your chocolate pudding is now ready eat. You can do so straight from the mug (need I remind you it will be hot?) or tip out onto the plate and serve with cream, or ice cream or whatever you fancy. Enjoy