I had my first experiment with Chia today. I made a pudding, using a tin of coconut milk as the base. Added flavours: cocoa, cinnamon, maple syrup so, that’s why I am calling it All Good Things Pudding Makes 2 generous or 4 small portions. Three people may be moderate pigs. Believers in Chia as …
Monthly archives: February 2013
Grapefruit
Another pithy food memory post. We opened a tin of grapefruit the other morning and ate it for breakfast. I commented that grapefruit might be the one thing that I might possibly enjoy more from a tin than I do fresh. Not that I don’t like it fresh, because I do – but tinned grapefruit …
The Baking Bucket List
This should probably be a Page and not a Post, so that I can look back and refer to it easily from time to time. I may convert it later – for now it is just a random jotting. As promised, I am making a list of things I haven’t tried yet. I have been …
Tear and Share
Tomorrow’s outline plan was to make an onion-ish or garlicky tear and share loaf to dunk into our Chilli non Carne. I have been Googling around and cannot find a recipe that lines up with what I had in my head, so it looks like I shall be extemporising. I was surprised at how many …
No-bake days
No baking today. I fancied a Spanakopita for lunch but as we are trying to be good about our diet I am leaving the pastry out, so I suppose that we are having a spanakofrittata instead! I love the combo of Feta and Spinach and am now toying with notions of some kind of tasty …
Ben Bread 1
Ben Bread 1 – sourdough white loaf. Starter originally from the Wild Yeast Bakery – the San Francisco culture. Fed and nurtured in Orkney by Fenella and passed on to me. I think Fenella had been feeding the culture with wholemeal flour. I gave it two feeds of stoneground white before use. When I taste-tested …