Food
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Bread and Soup
Yesterday I made some bread. The ingredients for it are flour, salt and yeast. Today it is a bit hard but ok for toast. Tomorrow it will be so hard as to be…
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Who does this?
I’ll be the first to admit that I am not one for watching every penny that I spend. We’re not badly off and I don’t take the pleasure some people (J is one…
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From ancient to modern
I had to use up the last bit of my slow cooker box. It was a lamb flank and I have never used this cut of meat before. I can’t say I liked…
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Flatbreads
I think we have been eating too much meat recently – I ordered a big box from the Blackface Meat Company for the freezer and we seem to have been dipping into it…
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A delightful lunch
I have had limited luck with buying meat around here. The supermarket stuff is well, supermarket stuff, and the one joint I had from a local butcher was expensive and rather mediocre. So…
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A poor person’s shop
Back in the day (twenty odd years ago) when R and I lived in Livingston, we would very occasionally go to Aldi. It was crap – the sort of bargain basement shop that…
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My Dad would have been proud
My Dad (who died aged 93 two years ago) would have been very proud of my accomplishment this week. He was a jam and jelly maker (and eater) par excellence, and no year…
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Some Victorian images for the kitchen
We were lucky enough to find some original images of some of the inhabitants of the house from the 1870s. Obviously they were in sepia, but I carefully hand tinted them to achieve…
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Dragon Fruit
This is a Dragon Fruit. I saw it at the Farmers’ Market and bought it because it looked spectacular and I had never tried one. TLDR – don’t bother. Like many exotic fruit,…
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