After the piss-pouring rain put a damper on my pottering about in the garden, I decided to do a spot of baking. I don’t have much in the way of ingredients so I made scones, which are about the simplest thing you can bake. I found the original recipe in the Vegetarian Student Cookbook — [...]
I have quite a lot to say about my experiments with food and gardening of late but I’m a little concerned about scaring off the majority of you who’re here to read the geeky bits. As I don’t have the time to start and maintain a separate blog it’s a case of “tough titty”: you [...]
I realised last week that I’d not updated you all since my post from March where I contemplated doing a spot of gardening. Well, t’was not long after that I turned my bathroom into a makeshift greenhouse for a variety of seedlings, etc. I have still got the outside plastic one, but find that if [...]
I’ve just got online — it’s 7:30pm — after having spent most of the afternoon in garden centre type places looking for plants for my front garden. It’s north-facing so shadowy and damp most of the time, which presented a bit of a problem (I’ve brought back some Fuschia).
Anyway, upon opening my inbox I find [...]
I decided — a spur of the moment thing — to do some baking today. It’s been a while, but after raiding my Mum’s for baking tins and a reminder about ingredient quantities I set to it.
The cake itself is based on a traditional British pound cake, so named because it was originally created [...]
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