This Is Not My Home

Crispy crust, chewy sourdough middle, delicious! (Though I say so myself). Ingredients: 7g salt 125g strong white bread flour 250g ...

make guava sorbet! I inherited an old tin of guava halves. Feeling the need for sweet, fruity goodness, my mind turned to sorbet. Unfortun...

A couple of weeks ago, I went to stay with Lady Pink and Lord Fisherman. Since I was brought up never to arrive empty handed, I thought a ho...

I am sure at some point I had a plum cake recipe to share with you. However, I seem to have mislaid both the recipe and the picture. Th...

 The hyacinths are blooming (and releasing a fragrance that can be detected 3 rooms away!)  A quilt has been begun.  An app...

Beckie is revising. That is all. Normal service may be resumed shortly.

I was thinking today about how I am the latest in a long family line of eccentrics. My grandfather, for example, used to think that a double...

The first: chocolate swirl buns. Mr Peyton's sweet bun dough, with the addition of 25g of dark cocoa powder (and 25% less yeast, as I...

For a seasoned (sinful) worrier, such as me, this hymn holds great balm and sober reminders laced into its lines. What a friend we have in...

Dedicated readers of my blog (all four of you) have probably noticed "A New Name" in my blog reel/side-bar. I forget how I came t...

Yellow garden roses... In a measuring cylinder. I think it makes a rather fetching "single-stem" style vase. What do you think?

The husband of a friend from Theological College: Reverend Barr-Hamilton Inspire a generation? (via: The Vicar's Wife )

Most of the moving is over, although myriad boxes seem still to litter the house! Sometimes, however, time in the kitchen is more necessar...

Once again I am surround by boxes and bubble wrap (well, actually less of the latter than the former, because it's too much fun to pop) ...

This hymn by John Newton exemplifies how we can pray in complaint to the Lord, and His wonderful answer. I asked the Lord that I might gro...

This is a new song to me, but the Computer Geek was listening to it and I was struck by the lyrics. How few of our songs and hymns acknowled...

This Flickr group has been making me smile today. All sorts of exciting items made from the bits of fabric we normally throw out. Less wa...

Most of my recent posts have been rather cookery heavy, so I thought I'd take a break and show you something different. Pattern from...

The loaf. Half the Fabulous Baker Brothers recipe with twice as much salt (their recipe has so little salt it tastes a bit odd), in a li...

This is not speedy in the "reach into fridge and consume" sort of way, but in the "Jamie's 30-minute meals" sort of...