I’m baking cake today (the yeast is all gone). I am tackling the somewhat extravagant Poppy Seed Torte from the Guardian’s 10 best Seed Recipes. The thing is, I am not feeling too god and am really not on top of things today, and have ended up making the cake all wrong. It was the …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
My Little Pink Cloud
Daily Prompt: Charitable You’ve inherited $5 million, with instructions that you must give it all away — but you can choose any organizations you like to be the beneficiaries. Where does the money go? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiWomXklfv8 Oh, this is an easy one. I would start my own charitable trust. I have long wanted to be rich enough …
Loose
Jingle jangle
Day in, Day out
Once upon a time I would happily have approached this prompt with an elegy to Autumn.
Bitza and Buns
I need a new oven. Rolls and bread made from the same batch of dough – behaved entirely differently on top and bottom shelf. The buns “peaked”. There is something very wrong with that oven. Has it anything to do with the kitchen knife that was jammed in the fan blades, I wonder. Whatever – …
Bits of this, bits of that
I have Bitza Bread under way this morning – it’s made of bits of this and bits of that, using my flour ends. So there is some of the Malted Blend, some of the Rustic country and some of the Unbleached White… with extra malty bits thrown in. The dough seems very well-tempered. It’s a …