23 April 2011
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Yesterday’s baking handiwork: I made two twists on the recipe. The crosses were made with poppy seeds (pressed into crosses I had painted with milk). I then slashed down the centre of each line to give some expansion room although, … Continue reading
16 April 2011
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I failed in my attempt to whip up a quick hollandaise sauce last night. I thought I could make it work in a similar manner to the lemon curd recipe (which I am fairly confident with now), using the slow … Continue reading
8 April 2011
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I was listening to The Average White Band’s classic funk track, Pick Up the Pieces, earlier this week but that only serves to give me a title for this post. I have made another of my slow-cooker lemon curds (yes, … Continue reading
1 March 2011
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Last month, I described how I attempted a lemon curd recipe and ended up with scrambled curd instead. Yesterday I returned to the fray, employing what I learned from that experience. This time I blended the lemon and sugar on … Continue reading
7 February 2011
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I had lemon curd on toast this morning, made doubly delicious by being the product of my own labour. The inspiration to cook it up, yesterday evening, came from having browsed the pages of our slow cooker book and spotted … Continue reading
2 February 2011
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We like pretty things in our garden but they get extra points if you can eat them too. That’s why we are experimenting with a myrtle (Myrtus communis) hedge at the front of the house. It is evergreen, fragrant, produces … Continue reading
27 January 2011
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I made another loaf of bread last night with two twists in the recipe. Firstly, I ground up some rice to make flour and combined that with the strong bread flour I normally use. The combination was about 85% white … Continue reading
12 January 2011
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I think I might get back into adding a small amount of fat to the bread I cook. My typical recipe is just bread flour, water, yeast and salt in the ratio 100:70:2:2 but, on Monday night, I substituted about … Continue reading
2 January 2011
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A few days ago I went on a walk with Jane and Magnus and gathered half a pot of rose hips from a bush I had observed a few weeks earlier. Roughly following Katey’s recipe, I washed the hips, removed … Continue reading
15 December 2010
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Yesterday evening’s performance went very well (and then a pleasure to sit and enjoy the sounds of the Afropean Choir to round off the evening). However, today’s big event is the revealing of the results of my experiments in cooking … Continue reading