I am considering buying a little camera to keep in the kitchen drawer, for taking pot shots at, er, my pots and things when I am cooking. I find that I do not like getting flour and dough all over my good cameras. So, advise me – recommend a good affordable compact that will produce no-fuss snapshots of …
Category archives: Cooking
Whoops Cake
Hmmm, maybe I’ll stop by the shop for some biscuits tomorrow. I expect the invention cake will be all right with a dollop of custard… Shawl pinned out (and looking like a dog’s breakfast) I’ve worked out what’s wrong. It’s Knitting Withdrawal. I should never have gone Cold Turkey on it. Maybe if I work …
Something worth remembering
I knit. You know that. I knit a lot. I know that. I knit and I knit and I knit… often to the exclusion of all else – witness the past couple of months. Sometimes, I knit so much and so often that I forget that my primary creative focus is, and always shall be …
Believe it or not
There was knitting this weekend! Fair enough, it was only a very little – but knitting there was. I added a few peaks to my Hap shawl while SpinningGill worked on her doyly. I think there may be further knitting later today as it’s one of those comfort-seeking days – though, to be honest, I …
Cheese Tart
I love Quiche days, when a gathering of leftovers from the ‘fridge turns, with the addition of a few home-grown fresh eggs, into a gastronomic delight (or what passes for such in these ‘ere parts.) There is a Parmesan pastry chilling in the ‘fridge already and I’ll be blind baking the case shortly, before deciding …
Um… yum
Now, there must be umpteen undocumented FOs lying about the place, must there not? I could write one of those up to get me out of this hole… Yes. The Hap is not yet completed – quite a way from it, in fact. The second corner is heaving into view and I am mightily bored, …