This has been a good weekend!

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Pp has got into poached eggs, and would like to eat them with (English) muffins.

Asda had no muffins at all (they had about 7 different kinds of crumpet, and zero muffins), so I bought a bag of spelt flour instead and made these wholemeal spelt muffins instead: https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/wholemeal-spelt-english-muffins-recipe ;

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Yesterday, I saw a huge black crow eating a similarly huge dead white gull. It looked very Ominous.

Today I went for a swim and didn't get stung by a jellyfish, though one of the people I was swimming with did.

Pp and I decided we didn't know enough about the history of countries in Africa, so we're doing a blitz on African history doing a quick ( Read more... )

Saturday was Pp's birthday. I had promised to make a cake and a meal, which I did, with some success in the most important department (taste) but less success in the visuals. I intended to make a chocolate tower-cake, but my tower proved structurally unsound, and even the addition of a bamboo skewer did not entirely prevent listing and eventual ( Read more... )

New dishwasher arrived and was installed and they took away the old one very efficiently, all masked and with the windows wide open for a healthy draught. This year has been all about the healthy draughts so far, the whole thing of 'keeping the heat in' has rather blown away ( Read more... )

Is not behaving in quite the way the instructions suggested (ie, it rises, but not yet doubling in size) so so far, I have not tried making it into bread.

It does make good crumpets though. 

I missed out on the sourdough starter craze of early 2020 because we had some dried yeast in the cupboard during the Great Bread Shortage, and also the village post office which has its finger firmly on the pulse, almost immediately started selling yeast and bagged flour from the wholefoods supply place around the corner, so we were never really ( Read more... )

In my quest for foods that are a bit less carbohydratey, I have been ( Read more... )

The Milkman seems to have given up on delivering me the nice malty seedy bread I like, though he still brought dull white sliced for Pp.  Perhaps nice malty wholemeal is not considered essential.  I responded by making my own bread, which is white, but much nicer than the white sliced.  It was delicious.  I must get my act together and make some ( Read more... )

Yesterday, after canoeing, we stopped to eat at an ‘American themed’  cafe ( Read more... )