So as I have already said I am trying to be a bit healthier for lent. This didn’t stop me eyeing up a ice cream shop on my way back home this afternoon. Luckily for my stomach and wallet, it was closed, so no harm done.
Healthy food can sometimes take a bit of a beating from the old taste bud police, because lets face it everything tastes better with butter and salt. It just does.
So after my ode to pancakes last week, I thought it was time to put hands to computer and discuss the other side of pancake day – Lent. Regardless of whether you are religious, the next few weeks up to Easter offer a great motivational opportunity to try out a new habit that you have been attempting to pick up.
People try all sorts of things from exercise to new hobbies. Nonetheless more often than not people choose something to do with food.
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After a recent trip to Amsterdam, where I decided that the international cuisine must be pancakes, coupled with the fact that next week it is pancake day I have been getting very excited about those thin discs of heaven.
So here we are on the first day of the Suppers From Scratch Challenge week. So exciting!
I am not going to write an epic on how great the week will be, how nice the food will be, how it doesn’t matter that it takes a bit longer because the satisfaction is so much greater once you have done it.
That’s all true.
Well I know this post is a bit later than promised but my New Year started with a bang and not the nicest one. So I am only getting my head together now and realise that I never shared my mouth watering meal with you.
Despite this set back I know this year is going to be an exciting one. There are still loads of recipes to master, cheeses to make and chocolate to perfect. And of course now the challenge is spreading.
So here we are. The last day of my From Scratch Challenge.
I can’t believe we are here already. It doesn’t seem very long ago since I started back in January with the Flu. But when you look back a lot has happened this year.
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After my recent dairy failures it was with great trepidation I attempted yoghurt. Yogurt is apparently ‘really easy’ so if I couldn’t get this right then I think my career in attempting to make dairy From Scratch would be well and truly over.
But determined/stupid as ever I was convinced I could at least get this one right.
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Monday morning – time to do battle with curd. Just to be clear, I am talking about From Scratch Cheese!
It’s been a long time since I have sat down with some crackers and sunk my teeth into some delectably creamy offering. I would akin my love for cheese close to that of Wallace, and if I had a Gromit there would be Wensleydale oozing out after every meal.
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I have been getting cabin fever lately, spending way too much time inside. So last Wednesday I decided enough was enough, I was going to get out.
I decided a trip to the V&A for some inspiration for my projects would be a good plan. However on my journey to the museum I saw this fantastic display for National Baking Week….
Bethnal Cream? Genius!
It’s here! The From Scratch Christmas Countdown has arrived. You might think it’s early but now Justin Bieber’s released a christmas song we are well and truly on our way.
