Hi there its ME.....on Sourdough Bread - Thursday, 20th March 2014.

I've been very busy these last two days making my sourdough starter bread; four loaves on Tuesday - two Wessex Mill Spelt Wholemeal flour loaves and two Allinson Strong White Bread Flour loaves.

Spelt Wholemeal Bread Flour from Wessex Mill

Two further loaves of the strong white bread flour loaves had to sit in my 'fridge overnight, but that didn't prevent them baking well on Wednesday, for it was just too late to go on waiting to see if they would prove any further!!

Sourdough Bread with Allinson Strong White Bread Flour 

So they were baked on Wednesday, and I just love eating slightly cooled bread, straight out-of-the oven, spread with either lemon curd, marmalade or my home-made turkey pate or potted beef.

That's what I've also cooked this week, Potted Beef, setting it into ramekins, and sealing it under a lovely crust of melted butter...just great for warm bread, jacket potatoes and swirling into hot, buttery pasta!

My just-potted-up Potted Beef

Then cooked beef into meat and vegetable turnover, and a pie of meat and roasted vegetables and potato chunks under a melting pastry cover.....hmm! it wasn't bad!  Certainly food to eat and enjoy but, there's always the opportunity for improving, for making things even better, and that's so much of what I enjoy about the whole process of creating good food to eat, testing and tasting and trialling new recipes, new ideas, new foods and new methods and preparations.

My beef and veggie turnover

Lovely hot white Spelt Sourdough Bread




And then...I also cooked Spaghetti Bolognaise, sausages and onions and tonight, Thursday, I made my first ever Panettone - de-licious!!!

Daisy