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 …

Baking this week

Breadmaking this week has been limited to quick and easy plain methods. There have been two batches of bread made with the seeded flour. I made the first in the Lakeland oblong loaf baker  and the second in the Lakeland round baker.  No idea why it should be any different but we both preferred the …