There's a brown-ish, seedy, malty load on the rise today. Gill delivered fresh yeast last night and I had no intention of allowing it to linger. I'm still using up a mix of flours that I tipped the ends of into a box together. It makes a good bread - there's seeded rustic flour in …
Plan A
Saturday was a dismal day. The rain simply tanked down. We got a good soaking at the bottle bank, did some shopping at the Community and Corses shops and then headed to a house-viewing appointment. I think that the house viewing was a success. It has toned down Mr L's ambition to move back to …
Cross-cultural soup
Today's soup was another cracker. I set out to make a lentil soup. I had onions, carrots, potatoes and over ripe tomatoes to hand and elected to flavour the soup with cumin and celery seeds. Garlic was involved of course, and also a little dried chopped parsley. It was the best lentil soup that I …
Golden Leftovers Soup
We had soup again today. I had some left over veg that needed to be used. This is really a note to self, so that I may reproduce the feat in the future --- because it was delicious. I had half a butternut squash and half a sweet potato in the salad drawer, along with …
Just for a change
You know how when things break down they are almost invariably just out of warranty? Well, just for a change, I have a different story to tell. We have a lot of bad luck with kettles. Every time that one fails on us we do extensive research in the hope of finding a good and …
Spelt and Linseed Revisited
Just a quick note to remark that the Spelt & Linseed loaf passed the second day test with flying colours. Even today it remains fit to eat. However, I also have to say that it makes the most fantastic toast. So good in fact that I'd consider making this recipe again specifically in order to …