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Sunday, 30 March 2014

Hi there its ME...on Mothering Sunday Simnel & Panettone - 30th March 2014...

There's just been too much cooking and eating with very little time-space for writing and keeping in touch!
My new writing space!

So...here's my catch-up communication for Mothering Sunday and....I'm simply longing to tell you all about my Simnel cake baking for this special day and my trialling the Panettone recipe of Paul Hollywood from BBC Food - bbc.co.uk/food and my second attempt at a recipe from "Bread" by Anne Sheasby - ISBN 978-1-84899-189-7 - of her Panettone on Page 161.



Making breakfast drop scones / pancakes with my grandsons, trying to answer the question - "so what's the difference between the two?  Then what makes American Pancakes "fluffy" or about Pikelets, Blinis etc. and the inter-connecting frisson between all of these!!!


Oh and what about breakfasts, hey?  So many differently delicious ideas, suggestions, ideas for this terribly important meal; why is it so many of us eat a daily bowl of cereal or slices of hot buttered toast?


Pancake Stack with lemon curd



Now I'm in favour of both these options but I want to explore others, starting with pancakes/drop scones to croissants, the Continental breakfast of cold meats, cheeses and fruit with coffee which we had in Salzburg and so on!

My father loved a huge rare steak with eggs "sunny-side-up"  - wonderful...and fried cold potato slices, halved tomatoes, kidneys and bacon and liver and bacon...!

Potted foods - vegetables, pounded or blended meats, happily sealed with melted butter, 'fridge-stored and just waiting to be added to jacket potatoes, pasta, hot buttered toast or crisp savoury biscuits.


Potted Beef

Strong White Sourdough Starter Bread
Breads of all sorts and gluten-free bread product alternatives.....!  Just love the whole idea of bread in all its fascinating stages, themes and ideas; the very essence of this essential food fires my imagination, making me yearn to try my hand at everything bread!!!   I wonder how far I'll get with the comfort
 crumb?

White Sourdough Starter Ripe Dough


Supper calls...let's chat later!!!

Daisy

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