This weekend Sue and I are celebrating 48 years of living together – Sunday 13th October is the day but, no need to be that specific, it’s Friday and we’re starting now with a little prepping …
The bread was made yesterday already. Pain Niçoise packed with olives, sundried tomatoes, garlic, figs, herbs, and, a very old favourite, Brioche Provençale, a poor man’s brioche with cristalised fruits. Baguettes following this evening.
In the fridge is crab and plaice defrosting for tomorrow, not to mention a duck for Sunday. Might be a few other little treats – you never know …
The PArtisan Baker 
Congratulations old things!
Hi Bob – Really good to hear from you. At our time of life you get afraid to contact people. We are OK and sincerely hope you are! Still baking? Best wishes, Mick & Sue
Hello Mick and Sue, thanks for your message. I’m still standing, (only just,) and still baking. It’s a long, boring story, but the shortened boring version is – I had cancer and had surgery to remove about two thirds of my oesophagus and about the same amount of my stomach in 2020. It’s made the life I was used to a bit different! Anyway, my consultant gastroenterologist advised – no bread, it forms into a dough-ball and sticks in what’s left of my oesophagus. And so I took his advice, (for a while.) But the bread I bake isn’t like the pappy stuff that I’m sure a lot of his patients eat, and I love it so much that after a while I started baking and eating it again – although not quite as much as I used to. So the answer is yes, I am still baking! Unfortunately though, I am no longer able to indulge in some of the other stuff that I have loved these last 50 plus years – spicey foods and red wine. BUT, I am still standing and enjoying life most of the time.
All the best. Bob.
PS. Jacqui, who was 80 in March, celebrated by doing her first ever parachute jump!
congrats on your happy years together😊!! The breads looks very delicious need bake the Brioche at looks so delicious.
Hiya Marilyn – thanks as ever for your good wishes. The brioche is an old favourite!