My latest kitchen toy is a dehydrator. So while the starter was been being built, this has been put to use drying out slices of apple from the tree – mainly the good bits of damaged fruit. Having dried them they were rehydrated in Weston’s finest Henry Weston cider which also made up about half […]

Read More P d’A III – The Proof

Right, all bets are off (see previous post): That was after about 28 hours. It rose nearly to the arch in the glass before I went to bed. By morning it had fallen back and has now been refreshed at 1:1:1 (starter:water:flour by weight). To be continued.

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Remember Woolworths? A lot of years ago I bought Sue an apple tree as a valentine from Woolworths and brought it back on the bus from Bangor. Produces lovely sharp Coxes some of which we keep till New Year to use in Faisin a la Normande. Our neighbours provide the pheasants. Anyway, Marcus was recently […]

Read More Pommes d’Amour

Sorry it’s been nothing but barbies but I’ve been been moonlighting on egullet http://forums.egullet.org/topic/149435-baking-bread-from-scratch-in-france/ for the past five weeks. On a whim I thought I would make a starter and see how far I could get with it on holiday and then when we got back a little action feature on reviving my real starter […]

Read More Moonlightin’

… is another mans bollocks. But, you know, after all this fishy stuff, we had to go for some macho red meat: I know that doesn’t look very big but that is a T-Bone steak weighing just over a kilo and, as I had to admit to Sue, it cost 26 euros. It wasn’t really […]

Read More One Mans Cojones …

Well, technically it’s not fish porn but it’s a definite seafood orgy. Paella on the barbie: Prawns, mussels, squid and crab. Never coming home.  

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Especially for Stig’s daughter Eve, a little fish fetishism: A handsome sea bass as arranged by Sue. The finest fish and chips this side of Dover. The batter could be regarded as a very thin sourdough.

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A visit here: means I can have a couple of days bake free (although I do have a batch of pizza dough ready to go in the fridge). This has been the year of the barbie. I managed to persuade an incredulous Sue that I really did want a big Weber for my Christmas (and […]

Read More A Barbue on the Barbie

I’m probably being a bit indiscreet letting you in on this but I’m actually over here doing a bit of undercover work for Le Front pour le Pain Vrai promoting pain au levain worldwide for one month only – it’s all a bit, ‘ow you say, ‘ush ‘ush. So I’ve been parachuted in (well, it’s […]

Read More Sourdough Septembre