I made homemade lentil soup for dinner tonight, served with homemade granary bread and Guernsey butter. I can’t for the life of me remember where this recipe came from, but it was so delicious I just had to share …
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This is the second part of my 2011 Round Up covering July to December – I hope you enjoy it! You can check out yesterday’s round up (the first half of 2011) here.
Image details – Truffles by David Leggett, via Flickr On Tuesday night, my dear crafty pal Jo and I attended a chocolate truffle making workshop. It was good fun, although I must confess, I don’t think we are ‘natural’ truffle makers. Clearly, the gorgeous truffles in the photograph above were not made by us! It was quite a messy experience and we spent most of the evening covered in melted chocolate. But it was a giggle! I recorded a little audioboo about it for you and also took a few photos. Enjoy…
In yesterday’s blog post there was some talk of ‘the promise of biscuits’. I thought it would be rude not to share my biscuits with you!
Now Autumn is well and truly here, it’s time for warming, hearty dinners. One of hubby’s favourites is chilli, not least because I tend to make a large batch and put at least half in the freezer. This recipe came from my mother-in-law and has been tweaked a little along the way. I hope you like it.
It’s all about food in my household at the moment. I’ll be back to my traditional knitting/sewing/etc craft this weekend, all being well, but for now, it seems my blog is something of a food fest.
I have become mildly obsessed with conquering my fear of yeast cookery, ever since I couldn’t quite master Guernsey Gache. So this time I thought I’d have a go at making bread from a packet. Basically the mix is all the dry ingredients and you make the bread from that. You can use these bread mixes to make bread by hand or in a bread maker. I opted for ‘by hand’ and this is how I got on…
I can’t believe I can make bread. I really do feel like a domestic goddess now! And the best bit about this bread recipe is that it has no yeast in it. The reason this is good news is that I find yeast a little tricky to work with (I refer to my previous post First Attempt: Making Guernsey Gache). It also means that there is no resting time required for this loaf – it’s ready in under an hour. It’s also easy-peasy. I must just say thank you to Kate from the A Playful Day podcast for giving me the idea of making soda bread. She shares a fabulous recipe for it in her most recent episode (here) which would be ideal for anyone with certain food intolerances. It’s a great podcast too, so please check it out. What follows is my version with a few suggested alternatives.
I’ve been having lots of fun in the kitchen over the past few weeks. Whilst I have always considered myself a foodie, I have never been particularly adventurous and always assumed I was too busy to make certain things when it was quicker, easier and often cheaper to buy them. This is mildly ironic when you consider I like knitting socks! So this is the first of 2 recipe posts. The recipes are ‘things you can buy in the shop but taste 10 times better if you make them’ type recipes. |
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