Kerry Beal

Shall check it out if time allows.

Life is tough!

What ever I can find to go 'with it'! Or as Anna says 'pullet' - as in pull the bread apart.

Never fear - we have our priorities!

Our Little Italys

Eggs and wiffit for lunch today.

Some of the remaining buttermilk went into this lovely moist sheet cake for the clinic today.

Oops forgot to post dinner last night!

You must understand the angst we suffer – if when we arrive and everything is crammed in the closet – and we can't get to the booze for a day or two. Not being able to get to the good knives is difficult enough. Putting a couple of bottles of premixed cocktails on the floor at the front of the closet is the difference between sanity and insanity.

UPS - and his name is Greg. And he likes chocolate! I've seen him drive by in the morning when my car isn't there for some reason - and he returns when he sees my car.

Always a sad day when you need to pack up the liquor cabinet! Tomorrow's Little Italy (perhaps better called a Little Canada) - jarred and ready to pour tomorrow. Next summer's 'barrel' aged negroni.

Voyageur.

The fridge contained some green beans cooked with tomato - made the same night as the roasted cauliflower. Not to let them go to waste I had them stand in for shakshuka for breakfast. Few bits of left over pork roast in there to 'season' it. Was very surprised I was able to get it out into a bowl successfully.

Where do you suppose the lecithin fits in?

The nurses feel sorry for me today

Rounds today

Bourrotes aux Pommes with my 'foraged' apples.

I suspect you don't see them because not a lot of people are making liquor chocolates these days. They are a bit of a PIA. With the fruit purees you just need to account for the decrease in percentage of alcohol when you calculate out the amount of sugar. I do find that the shells tend to get leaky.

You'll need to send samples - LOL!

That would be bacon - damn you autocorrect!

Shrimp, tomatoes, bachon, garlic and cream on zoodles and kelp noodles.

Dejah - was that actually cap on AAA that you got for $4.77/lb?

So is there anything else out there that has a similar inside texture that those of us on the other side of the world would recognize? Have you ever come up with an inside texture that is right but the outside isn't? If so perhaps spraying with a mist of water before frying would get the blistery result you are after on the surface?

It's enough to drive me to drink!

Andi's Dundee cake sans sliced almonds. One of the three things I plan to make for tomorrow.