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Every so often now I catch myself making a comment about just about any yeast-based dough recipes and saying, “ach I can do that”. I say catch myself because as regular readers here will know, there was a time when making bread seemed like some sort of magical, dark art to me. […]
Everyone has one of those lists that they want to tick off, you know the ones I mean, the ones where you list all the things you want to do before you’re 30, 40, 50 etc. So when the garden gave me a massive glut of basil, it was a […]
As part of our healthier lifestyle thing, we notice an awful lot of “fashionable” things appear and disappear. Sometimes they are good and we add them to our repertoire and other times they are one of those pretend this is as good as the version you know cause you are […]
Hygge comfort returnsIt’s that time of year again, it’s cold, blooming freezing, and it’s dark most of the time. It’s really easy during the cold autumn and winter months to get a bit low or blue and pine away wishing for spring. So to combat that, over the past couple […]
I have been on the most epic adventure over the last few weeks. Well I say few weeks, in truth this adventure started last year but it didn’t pan out, so I’ve chosen to completely gloss over it and pretend it didn’t happen. So last few weeks it is, and […]
If you are a regular follower of my blog, you’ll know that I am a complete muffin fiend. I can’t help it, I love eating fluffy muffins and I love baking them too. One of the things which always surprises me though is the lack of savoury muffins on offer […]
We decided that as one of our experiments this year, we’d grow our own gherkins for pickling. Specifically cornichon de paris which I really enjoy on a sandwich. A bit of research on the interweb made it all sound so simple and there were lots of recipes to choose from for […]
Happy St George’s Day to all our Ar Bruadair readers who are celebrating! After the success of our St Patrick’s day and St David’s day posts, we knew we had to come up with something great for St George’s day but boy was it difficult to come up with a celebration […]
We did a couple of posts a while back about all the fun we were having with our pasta machine, making ravioli and Chinese dumplings. Last night the machine was dragged out again, this time to make tagliatelle. Fun with a pasta machine More fun with a pasta machine So if you […]
Much like beetroot and tomatoes, when you grow your own chillies you get an awful lot of the little blighters and can’t always use them up so the solution is to dry them, that way you have loads of dried chilli flakes to use at will and they last. I […]
