So, we have a new category on the blog. I am wondering which user to assign it to? It seems tidier to allocate chocolate-making to the kitchen user, even though she set out simply to make bread. The chocolate couverture finally got here on Monday morning. I calmed my impatience and spent some time in …
Tag archives: chocolate
Categorically
We need a new Category tag – one for chocolate-making. Can’t wait! Hotel Chocolat provided for our chocolate needs but we cancelled membership both to save money and because the postal system sometimes played havoc with my soft centres. Every now and again Mr L’s need for chocolate drives him to the local shop – …
OMG
OH.MY.GOODNESS Really. Nothing else to say. Words are insufficient. Click, gaze, read.
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 …
Whoops
Yesterday’s doughnuts were (technically speaking) a fail. A Big Fat Fail. Worth pursuing, though, as the flavour combination was sensational.
Some more odd memories
Following my comments in this post and this one on how food was in Fifties’ Britain, I found my synapses buzzing. I thought I’d just jot down a few extra random thoughts. I am confining my memories to when I lived in Sheffield, where I was born in 1953 and stayed until November 1962. Some …