Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Breads, Biscuits and Sweet (Tea) Breads). Oatmeal Biscuits, Pumpkin Bread, Sandwich Bread and more….
Holiday’s are over, time to get back to work. Remember this room? This is, or will be, the Living Room. Part of restoring an old house whilst living in it is there’s no place to put stuff. It just gets piled up in whatever room isn’t currently being worked on. The first order of business … Continue reading…
The continuing Saga of Sedi, the (former) Bunny Slayer Sedi, the German Shepherd, jumped out of the car on the way to the mountains. She had an unplanned sit…. And couldn’t get up. Other than hold her tail up so she could pee, there was nothing we could do – poor old girl. We lifted … Continue reading…
To keep you entertained whilst I’m in the mountains… Here’s one from the archives: Fox Hunting is no longer legal in Britain. It is, of course, still perfectly legal to put on the pretty red jackets and go madly galloping across the countryside on horses, blowing horns. And, of course, it’s still perfectly legal to … Continue reading…
Well….. We’re not quite ready to move in the easy chairs… But progress is being made. It’s the little things that always puts one behind schedule, especially when working with an old house. He had to remove the door that goes into the pantry in order to lay the tiles. It took almost 2 hours … Continue reading…
I just love alliteration! I really love this bread! Monique, of Living On Bread and Water, our host kitchen for this month, gave us this most wonderful bread recipe. The only problem I had was finding the tin cans. Tin cans? Yes, this was meant to be baked in 1lb tin cans….. Whatever size that … Continue reading…
I’m playing with the Bread Baking Babes again! They didn’t kick me out of the sandbox, after all. Which wouldn’t have been a surprise considering my shocking behavior over the past year and a half…. What with moving house, being imprisoned in Vlad’s house without an oven then, when I finally get an oven, having … Continue reading…
The Bread Baking Babes took pity on poor little me this month and made a bread that didn’t require an oven. It did require Teff flour, which I didn’t have and couldn’t find. It did require indoor rising temperatures of 70F (21C) which I didn’t have and couldn’t conjure. But, hey… I’m a Babe and … Continue reading…