So after all that posting about food books, I feel like I should post something about the food I make. And of all the food I make, the one I have the strongest feelings about is bread. I like bread a lot, and we eat a lot of it. But I don't rate shop bread, with a few exceptions, I find it unpleasant pappy soggy stuff that goes stale as soon as you ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Whatever artistic talent I may have with words, I have none when working with chocolate buttercream as my medium. This afternoon was spent making a birthday cake for Philomythulus, and although the train cake design is pretty simple, it started to look like a dog's breakfast once I tried to ice it. In my defence, I will say both that while I have ( Read more... )

Four years ago, I planted a half-standard plum tree outside my house. The first year it fruited, I had about six plums, and I think it took me about a day to eat them all. Last year I had maybe twenty plums, and we ate them over a couple of days. This year - well, I've picked somewhere between a third and half the plums so far, and that's over 5 ( Read more... )

I seem to be chatty this week. Have some more blether. ( food, WIPs and TV )