I’ve been on my own this week. When that happens, I don’t cook a great deal, mainly because the routine disappears. When the routine goes, so does my will to cook anything much at all. I get too easily distracted by Other Projects that eat up the evenings, other things that need doing. Time slips [...]
I made a couple of sourdough loaves yesterday. They started out the night before in a mixing bowl, a ladleful of starter mixed with flour and water. More flour in the morning, salt, kneading, proving, shaping, baking. 24 hours of waiting went into those loaves. Slow food, indeed. This batch was different from the last. [...]
A while ago, I had a run-in with a particularly nasty woman on a forum over attitudes to copyright issues. If I remember correctly, and of course, I do, because her attitude PISSED ME OFF, she ran a food blog and fancied herself quite the photographer. It all blew out of nothing, as these things [...]
We went out for dinner the other evening. The food was brilliant, all fusion noodles and tempura and big Thai curries. Proper South East Asian food that could maybe have had a slightly bigger chilli kick, but I am a Bradfordian, after all. We like our chillis. The restaurant is in one of those converted warehouse-type [...]
I had a spare half hour last Wednesday lunchtime, so I decided to idly fiddle around with the layout of this site, tweaking the width of the sidebar to make it fit an ad unit more neatly. All very easy stuff, all done from within the Wordpress console through a couple of settings adjustments to [...]