Saturday 12th September/Saurday 19th September, 2020 – Recipes (German Plum Cake, German Apple Cake) About 18 months ago I thought I’d found the perfect recipe for a German-style plum cake and I made a post about it with the intention of giving it a go if I couldn’t access the German Bakery on their van’s…
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Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 8 – 44)
Wednesday, September 16th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 8 – 44) I would have liked to keep on blogging the process of the dreaded extension build we’re in the middle of but things went badly wrong in mid-September when Lynne went out for a walk to avoid the cleaners (as part of…
Food 2020 – Haar at Home (Goan Lobster Box)
Saturday 12th September, 2020 – Haar at Home (Goan Lobster Box) After a lobster box from Côte, it was time to wheel out the big guns in September with a box from Haar. This is a restaurant in Scotland, headed up by Dean Banks, a former Masterchef finalist, who opened the restaurant a year ago….
Food 2020 – Recipes (Ragoût of Crayfish, Girolles, Fregola Pasta, Courgettes and Watercress Cream)
Saturday 8th August, 2020 – Recipes (Ragoût of Crayfish, Girolles, Fregola Pasta, Courgettes and Watercress Cream) Sometimes I get carried away with myself and end up buying stuff that then needs to be dealt with in quite labour intensive ways! A case in point is when the Scandi Kitchen’s repeated adverts for crayfish season prove…
Food 2020 РC̫te at Home (Lobster and Frites)
Saturday 1st August, 2020 – Côte at Home (Lobster and Frites) As people who usually go out to eat quite a lot, I’ve enjoyed doing my own more adventurous than normal cooking at home, but now and again it’s nice to let someone else do all the heavy lifting. A review in the Guardian in…
Food 2020 – Recipes (Easy Seeded Rye Bread)
Saturday 1st August, 2020 – Easy Seeded Rye Bread by Claus Meyer I’d been hunting around for a good rye loaf recipe, preferably similar to the sort of bread found in Germany, but I could only find sourdough recipes while digging around. We have enough animals in this house without acquiring a sourdough starter as…
Food 2020 – The Great British Chefs Cookbook Club (Falastin by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley)
July 2020 – Recipes (Rice with Yogurt, Roasted Cauliflower and Fried Garlic; Sfiha; Za’atar Rolls; Batata Bil Filfil; Prawn and Tomato Stew with Coriander Pesto; Red Shakshuka) Another month, another cookbook (I really hope they’re going to choose one I really don’t want to buy one of these months) from the people at The Great…
Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 6)
Monday, July 27th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 6) So, the tree is now gone, Rob, the Structural Engineer, has drawn up the necessary plans for dealing with the remnants (the roots mostly) and Mal the builder has been back for another look at the site now it no longer has a…
Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 4 & 5)
Thursday/Friday, July 23rd/24th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 4 & 5) On Thursday nothing much happened, but on Friday the offending tree went. If I’d left it to Jim (the architect) the gods only know how long we’d have had to wait. I didn’t, because the best man for the job is…
Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 3)
Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 3) Jim, the architect turned up unexpectedly today and spent some time staring at the tree. He is still of the opinion that the tree could just go and no one will turn a hair. Later on two separate tree surgeons turned up to…
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