They worked, Kind of. I made my dough a little on the wet side, so the rolls look less than gorgeous, but they do eat very well. I made a standard 500g flour dough – with fresh yeast, olive oil, salt and black pepper; adding 1tsp each of brown and black mustard seeds, plus chopped …
Monthly archives: March 2013
Experimentation Sunday
We had roast pork yesterday, with all the trimmings: I made a pear chutney in lieu of apple sauce, a sage and onion gravy, roast tatties and parmesan roast parsnips, and some purple sprouting broccoli. After that there was a baked cheesecake with amaretto strawberries. Cheeses, biscuits and port to round off. So. Today we …
A Life Without Chocolate
Daily Prompt: Five a Day You’ve being exiled to a private island, and your captors will only supply you with five foods. What do you pick? I am going to assume that my captors merely wish to isolate me and not to kill me, so the island has an ample fresh water supply. There will be …
It’s Electric!
Prompts for the Promptless Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Counterintutition is a seemingly simple concept– it represents a truth that is contrary to common sense or the expectations of intuition. Some examples of counterintuitive situations: You burn calories when you’re sleeping, flailing around is exactly the wrong thing to do when drowning, and beautifully speckled dart …
Monday’s Baking
Another attempt on the Milk Loaf yesterday. This time I used the white bread flour from our local shop. I could see the dough in the peep hole in no time at all. The loaf almost filled the tin, but as usual, my shaping was not quite right and I have dimples at each end. …
Dilly dally, shilly shally, shall I… shall I?
Busy weekend with photo stuff – I finally tidied up my photo blog and have images everywhere that there should be images. Mostly the right ones too, I think. As I was in Photo Mood, I strapped a camera or two onto the tripod and played around for a while. It made me happy. It …
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