what to do with Stilton

I bought a big lump of Stilton for the festive table. It’s untouched. www.stiltoncheese.com looks very useful.

another year over

we had a very quiet festering season, which is exactly what we wanted. We collected kalunina from Temple Meads on Friday afternoon, and apart from a brief foray to North Street for veg and brunch on Saturday, we didn’t stir out of the house again* until we returned her to Bristol Parkway (why she used…

I said I wasn't much of a baker

But I’m quite pleased with this – it’ s a work in progress, but it’s coming along nicely. it has a sort of amateur charm, don’t you think?

Go me!

I’m a good cook, but I’m not great at baking. And I’m lousy at pastry. however, inspired by this recipe which claimed to be “easy flaky pastry”, I thought I’d give it a go. I had to get perlmonger to come and grate for a while – it was hard work. But *I* rolled out…

Stepford Wife

Today, I have been mostly baking. I made a fabulous gruyere and cracked peppercorn bread. Or, at least, it would have been fabulous had I had a decent loaf tin instead of the ancient old things I use. It wasn’t quite cooked through, but we toasted it, and it was delicious. And I made some…

yum

We had homemade walnut bread for lunch.

weekend 2/3 dec 06

Saturday evening was a tub of mutton and date tagine from the freezer, and X-Factor. Good riddance to the dreadful McDonalds, I say. Sunday morning I made a batch of carrot and coriander muffins for breakfast, then faffed about for a bit before being Good, and taking the plastics to Sainsburys for recycling, and doing…

a book review

In Search of Perfection, by Heston Blumenthal, reviewed by John Crace in the Guardian. Glorious stuff – read it here.