Walking Commentary
Thoughts and cycling from Manchester to Rome in 2023
We excite our olfactory senses each time we open a spice jar. This cook’s book documents some of the spices and flavourings I found exciting in our kitchen. These photographs of latent ingredients can’t convey the fragrances but your recognition of them may evoke their aromas.
It’s hard to imagine that the sourdough you are creating will be shared across a family network a decade in the future.
But that’s what happened and today I baked a loaf based on a sourdough starter that was 8 years old. This one started from the fermentation of Kilmullen Farm apple juice left over from a wedding and started in the Gate Lodge where the couple lived at the time.
[Read more…] about Sourdough BlissMost nights, Mum will read to her six year old at bedtime. Perhaps a story, perhaps a poem about things that are hard to explain:
‘No one can tell me,One of the few disappointments in relocating to Dublin is the lack of decent vegetarian restaurants. That’s possibly because living in London has spoiled me. In London, it seems that vegetarians and vegans cook for vegetarians and vegans. In Dublin, there are just a couple of such places, Cornucopia the best known. Let’s not name many names but once you get out into the suburbs, the vegetarian still needs to select several vegetable dishes in order to eat with their carnivorous friends.
[Read more…] about Vegetarianism