Archive for the 'food' Category
A******** is in E****** now
According to this BBC web site article, the UK builds the smallest homes in Europe. According to the graphic (scroll down), Australia is in Europe now.
When you read stuff like this, it’s so depressing. I guess we’d feel better if Japan was part of Europe, too. I can’t imagine their houses are any bigger than [...]
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Result!
A miscellaneous post, with three separate topics.
I’m enjoying Life, on ITV3, starring Damian Lewis as Charlie Crews, a cop released from jail after a miscarriage of justice. In spite of his huge compensation payout, he chooses to return to his job. He has survived his ordeal by adopting the precepts of Zen/Confucianism, and he infuriates [...]
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Tags: fuel prices, winter, woodburner
Great Bakes
Foodies like to rave about artisan bakers, which is all very well if you happen to have one round the corner – but what about the rest of us?
Last year in France, my brother-in-law informed me that the local bakery in the village near where we were staying (it happened to be in the Dordogne) [...]
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Tags: baking, banette, bread, France
I think we know
A blast from the past
Residents of Buckingham were queuing up today outside the Tesco Express on the high street in order to spit in the doorway on their way to the new Waitrose, which has replaced the defunct Budgens in the Meadow Walk shopping centre.
Rumours had been rife for over a year that we’d be [...]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, Nostalgia, The Seventies, food, happiness, marketing, sixties | 5 Comments
Tags: shopping, Supermarkets, Tesco, Waitrose
super, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
Just got back from a week on the island of Noirmoutier, off the Atlantic coast of France. Last night, because we’d been avoiding French-style seafood for a week (huitres, moules-frites, fruits de la mer etc.), we decided to have a proper fish supper. Two large cod, two medium, three large chippy-chips. [...]
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Tags: economy, fish, fishermen, fuel crisis, fuel prices, seafood, Supermarkets
Sunday Tea
It’s traditional in our family to have a pizza for Saturday tea, especially if Doctor Who is on. One of the other traditional teatime meals from my childhood is Welsh Rarebit. There are seventeen billion different versions of this particular dish, but the one I like is the one that is most like my childhood [...]
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Tags: baking, bread
Smokin’
Yesterday’s bread was made with a new product from Bacheldre Watermill: Oak Smoked Stoneground Strong Malted Blend Flour. There are a lot of different flour products on the shelves now, which is quite exciting (I’m sure you agree). I’ve tried Spelt flour in the past, though the results were disappointingly stone-like. I couldn’t resist the [...]
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Tags: baking, bread, flour
Wheat Petite
There’s a kid at my school with diabetes and celiac, a double whammy of can’t-eat-that diseases, who has been told he won’t live far into his 20s.
Gluten is funny stuff. In my search for the perfect home-baked loaf (and I’m a long way off achieving this), I’ve often been nonplussed by the food fact that [...]
Filed under: ambitions in life, food, health | 2 Comments
Pump it Up (Coffee Fads Part 3)
I’ve got two pieces of news for coffee gadget fans.
First of all, I’ve by now actually tried the Melitta roll-your-own coffee pod filters. These do of course defeat the object of the Senseo pod system, which is designed to consistently make a decent cup of coffee with the minimum of fuss and mess. Start trying [...]
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Tags: coffee, espresso, gadgets, pods
Paranoid Bloggers Unite
Is it a coincidence I wonder that I blog a couple of times about baking a sourdough loaf a couple of weeks ago and this weekend the Guardian group newspapers decide to publish baking supplements? I wonder how that idea was presented to the editor? “Yeah, just woke up one day and it came to [...]
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