It has been about 4 years since a post was published on this blog. A lot has changed. Our boys are happily settled into school life and despite a few medical hiccups, Rose and I are becoming established in our new life in Cornwall.
The world has been dramatically changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are confined to the house and currently food stores near us are not very well stocked. However, for us little has changed; we are home and we continue to cook and make most food from scratch.
One thing that has changed is that I have been getting requests for information:
- How do you make your sourdough bread?
- What goes into those crisps you make?
- Udon noodles, can you really make them at home?
- Thai curry? Madras?
- Home made meat substitute?
- What can I make that’s gluten-free?
So… the blog is back.
As we cook, I am going to try to document what we do and post the recipe here. If you try any of them, please comment – let me know what you’ve done… did it work? Have you discovered enhancements? Are the instructions good enough or do you need more detail?
The first one will be udon noodles as I had a request yesterday; and are some images of things to look forward to…
Hiya! Looking forward to seeing your “how to” posts. Food looks yummy. Trouble is all the people in Godalming have decided to bake as well and bought all the flour ?. Stay safe all of you.
Hi Joani
I went to Tescos this morning and the staff told me that things had started to calm down… whereas before there was zero flour of any kind, I was able to buy plain flour today. I hope that the shelves will soon be re-stocked to previous levels. In the meantime, lots of people must have bought flour and maybe they can discover here what to do with it!
I love your info on getting starter going for sourdough- is this normal plain flour, any flour or strong plain flour? When I get flour I intend to get up and running. No flour in Sainsburys yesterday. Thank you
I use normal plain flour (the supermarket basic flour) for the starter… I do sometimes upgrade and get the strong flour for the bread (more details about that when I post the basic bread recipe)… hope you’ll get some flour in soon; we got some in Tescos this morning – phew.