steak

Posts here are a bit like buses, aren’t they? – none for weeks, then three in a day. That’s because downstairs I now use an iPad rather than a laptop, and a) I can’t remember the password, and b) it’s too slow to type a lot. I do have a bluetooth keyboard for it, so…

rough brown bread

This is yet another Irish soda bread recipe, and the one I make most often. It’s very forgiving of ingredients and mix, but here’s how I did it today. If you have milk or cream that’s gone over, use that. Or yoghurt is fine too (plain, not fruit, obviously, unless you like weird flavoured bread!)….

lamb, leek and barley soup

I don’t normally bother with recipes for soup – they’re a bit mongrel here. But I’ve started tracking what I eat on MyFitnessPal, so it’s worth writing stuff up, just for that. So hopefully there’ll be a lot more appearing here now. We make this quite often, as Morrisons do three lamb bones for about…