I stranded myself in Orkney with a spinning wheel and a quantity of fleece and there just didn’t seem to be much time for baking. What comes around, goes around. There is a creative cycle in my life and it keeps on turning and places me back in the kitchen, the home of my first …
Monthly archives: November 2012
Feta & Thyme Soda Bread
Three of my favourite things: soda bread, feta, thyme. I would go make this right now if there were any fresh thyme in the house (we always have feta). Love the idea of drizzling with honey. Mmmmffff! Go. Read. Cook.
Leek and Potato Soup
Few things partner good fresh bread better than a hearty bowl of home-made soup. I need an early and light lunch today as I plan to walk out immediately after and head to my Knit & Natter group meeting. Soup and a roll usually fits that bill. A quick root in the refrigerator revealed some …
How we got to this point (Part 2)
So, there we were, in Darlo, baking bread daily and me with a bun in the oven. The bread strike over, I kept on baking, and baking, and baking… The bread was great, and great bread deserves great butter — lashings of Lurpak. It began to tell on our waistlines and we made a difficult …
How we got to this point (part 1)
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse— and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— And Wilderness is Paradise enow. Omar Khayyam was not wrong, the best pleasures are the simple ones. My favourite simple pleasures, like his, include a loaf of good bread. However, …
Bread Photography
See Francine Zaslow’s amazing bread images here.