Posted in Baking, tagged Baking, bread, cake on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before I head off on my honeymoon* in Skye, I thought I would share with you today’s baking efforts:
Chocolate and zucchini cake, using courgettes from the allotment. The recipe is from the Chocolate and Zucchini cookbook, which I found (I think) via Chatirygirl. Seriously, if you love food and cooking, and you haven’t found the [...]
Posted in Baking, wedding, tagged Baking, wedding on July 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Remember the Very Important Cake?
Well, they (for there are three of them) are now finished!
After I finished baking them I wrapped them in greaseproof paper and foil and stuck them in a cupboard, getting them out every few weeks to “feed” them with more brandy. While we moved house they, along with other precious wedding [...]
Posted in Baking, Photography, knitting, wedding, tagged Baking, Photography, stole, wedding, wips on April 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The fruit had been soaking in brandy for over a week, the ingredients were all to hand, and after I got back from taekwon-do I had the whole afternoon without a pressing reason to leave the flat (apart from the sunshine, but hopefully that will still be there tomorrow). So it was time to start [...]
As a large part of the allotment has been taken over by strawberries, we’ve been experiencing something of a glut recently. I made strawberry sorbet and stuck it in the freezer, and still had some left over (not to mention some raspberries that I bought just before we found out about the allotment). On Tuesday [...]
Posted in Allotment, Baking, Uncategorized, tagged Allotment, Baking on July 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A while ago we signed up for an allotment. We knew the waiting list wasn’t too long, as the allotments in our town have only just got going again after falling into disuse back in the ’80s. Well, yesterday evening we got a phone call offering us a small half plot. Given the (slightly intimidating) [...]
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