It has been an odd week, a very odd week indeed. There has been some kind of bug around that manifested itself by making me feel both completely exhausted and totally disinterested in anything at all. There have been parcels and packages but none sent me scurrying oven-ward. In short, there has been moping. Today …
Category archives: Dear Diary
Chia Ambrosia
Before leaving to go to town on Friday I ate up what remained of the Chia pudding. It seemed to me that if the claims made for Chia are anything like truthful then it was just the fuel food required for my expedition. I can report that when the cafeteria on the boat opened I …
See you when I see you
I am off to town today – and not with any great enthusiasm. I am only going because there is a bit of a window in the weather and (mainly) because I have 4 tickets left that run out on Tuesday. Being a Yorkshire lass I have need of value for money and wish to …
La Cloche
I am getting a La Cloche bread dome. Anybody used one? Got any tips on using it? It’s an eBay bargain (thanks for the heads up, Gill) used, at £5.50 – Bakery Bits have them… at £47.49. I had discounted the La Cloche in my head until I read a review in which somebody says …
All Good Things
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 …
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 …