Food Joy
On Boxing Day our oven broke. This was, as I'm sure you can imagine, as annoying as hell. As we're renting this meant that we weren't actually able to do anything without permission from the landlord who we can't directly contact.
We called the letting agents but as it was bank holiday there was no answer, and no emergency number, so we emailed them. They didn't get back to us until after David had called them again, as it turns out they are in the process of being taking over by another letting agents and our broken oven had slipped under the radar.
They duly called the landlord who said he needed to decide whether to fix it or get a new oven. After a week David called them back again and they prodded the landlord who agreed to let and engineer come round.
On Wednesday said engineer came around and had it fixed within half an hour. Woo! Working oven! Boo, three weeks without one but as the hob, grill and george foreman were all still working we weren't without cooking appliances, I was just getting baking withdrawal symptoms.
I did make lots of new things whilst it was out of action though.
For Christmas we got a food processor from David's brother so we've been having fun with that. It's lead to the making of sweet potato and cumin soup:
From this:
To this:
Super yummy, warming and spicy. Lovely creamy texture too (helped byt he splash of cream I added no doubt).
We've also made welsh cakes a couple of times. This isn't a thing I've been able to do before as it's a pastryish dough and I am RUBBISH at rubbing butter into flour, horrifically heavy handed and it just doesn't work.
Fortunately the food processor can do this for me, hurrah!
Welsh cakes:
so I wasn't entirely without the making of cakey things.
I also made lots of scotch pancakes, though I don't seem to have photographed those, which is sad as the masses of pancakes, bacon and syrup from last sunday's breakfast was FAB!
Right now I'm in the process of making candied peel to attempt the Sour Lemon Scones I saw on picturing_food the other day. Hopefully they'll be yummy!
We called the letting agents but as it was bank holiday there was no answer, and no emergency number, so we emailed them. They didn't get back to us until after David had called them again, as it turns out they are in the process of being taking over by another letting agents and our broken oven had slipped under the radar.
They duly called the landlord who said he needed to decide whether to fix it or get a new oven. After a week David called them back again and they prodded the landlord who agreed to let and engineer come round.
On Wednesday said engineer came around and had it fixed within half an hour. Woo! Working oven! Boo, three weeks without one but as the hob, grill and george foreman were all still working we weren't without cooking appliances, I was just getting baking withdrawal symptoms.
I did make lots of new things whilst it was out of action though.
For Christmas we got a food processor from David's brother so we've been having fun with that. It's lead to the making of sweet potato and cumin soup:
From this:
To this:
Super yummy, warming and spicy. Lovely creamy texture too (helped byt he splash of cream I added no doubt).
We've also made welsh cakes a couple of times. This isn't a thing I've been able to do before as it's a pastryish dough and I am RUBBISH at rubbing butter into flour, horrifically heavy handed and it just doesn't work.
Fortunately the food processor can do this for me, hurrah!
Welsh cakes:
so I wasn't entirely without the making of cakey things.
I also made lots of scotch pancakes, though I don't seem to have photographed those, which is sad as the masses of pancakes, bacon and syrup from last sunday's breakfast was FAB!
Right now I'm in the process of making candied peel to attempt the Sour Lemon Scones I saw on picturing_food the other day. Hopefully they'll be yummy!