If you haven’t worked it out already I’m a bit of a baker at heart. I love bread and cakes, biscuits and tarts, and in the last few weeks I have been on a baking spree – which I should probably stop fairly soon in aid of trying to eat a bit healthier. Whilst I said before it’s not about deprivation, it’s also not about pre-mature cardiac arrest!
However I thought I would share a few baking/flour based cooking treats from the last few weeks.
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This week marked another craving… Pasta
Last year I probably had pasta three or four times a week, whereas so far this year I have had none. It has been nearly two months without the Italian shape-shifter, meaning I have missed out on around 28 pasta dishes and counting.
I was heading to my parents for the weekend, and knowing they had made pasta before and had a kitchen big enough to facilitate this sort of activity I decided this would be the weekend of pasta.
Throughout this entire week, everywhere I have gone I have smelt or seen bread. At home – bread. At work – bread. Even on the train – bread. I felt just like the woman I saw today staring longingly through the window of a nearby Pie Mash & Eel shop, her nose pressed firmly against the glass and with a substantial amount of drool dripping from her lips… only with bread.
Greetings fellow food lovers!
Welcome to Suppers from Scratch – my quest to get back to cooking fresh, delicious food filled with love.
Sometime in the middle of 2010 I had the idea to try and cook everything I eat for a year from scratch. Months quickly flew by and now I am at 31st December with a challenge, some porridge oats and the flu- about to embark on my culinary adventure…
