OneGuyFromBarlick

Tonight we will be sharing a baked Camembert.

I mixed a sourdough loaf yesterday and put it in the fridge for a slow rise overnight, It not done much in that regard so I have lifted it out to see if coming up to room temperature will help. Cant understand why it hasn't risen like it should, I fed my starter yesterday for the bake and it was very active when took out 125g for the dough, it smoothed out as normal with the stretch and folds before I set it up in the Banneton. No worries, it will not spoil for a longer slow rise.

For the bread for dipping I have changed tack and done a straight bloomer mix which is doing it's first prove as a I post. I will divide the dough into six when I knock it back and bake it off in my 6 x mini loaf tin. We can freeze any that we don't eat. I'll bake the sourdough when its argued with itself long enough.

I have pork sausages that I will roast to accompany the cheese and I think I will knock up a bit of a vine tomato and onion salsa for the side.

That sounds divine Ian, we're just having a roast beef dinner. I picked up a 1kg joint in Aldi yesterday.

I did a couple of Yorkshire puddings in the muffin tin too

Excellent Yorkshire Pudding there Kev.

PanBiker wrote: ↑06 Apr 2025, 14:10 Excellent Yorkshire Pudding there Kev.

Thank you Ian

I was titally unadventurous and had chicken and veggies X three. Oh, and fried my sweet potato chips as well....

Chicken and veggies X three. Three hot meals a day.....

Chicken and veggies X three and I cooked my pork belly and defatted it.

Yesterday I had meat and veggies for breakfast and tea but cheese and tomato on oatcakes for dinner.....

Same as yesterday, the light meal at dinner time seems to suit me! I'm still very slowly losing weight....

Stanley wrote: ↑11 Apr 2025, 02:32 I'm still very slowly losing weight....

I'm not - quite the opposite. Here's part of the reason why. . . . .

I had the long postponed Big Mac and fries on Wednesday. Must be several years since I had one. The experience wasn't a total success.
It's a drive through - and I was astounded by the level of traffic on the roads. It felt like a Friday evening rush hour.

I recklessly added an apple pie, and a Mc Flurry ice cream, and managed to speak to a hole in the wall with less embarassment than I ususally do. A quick tap of the card and I was instantly relieved of £10. 76. I drove straight home - about ten - fifteen minutes - and put the fries in the air fryer, to perk them up. They seem to have changed the Big Mac bun to a brioche type, which is quite sweet, and not an improvement. The sauce is of course unique and still very good. Why does the pickle taste better than any I can buy in a jar?

Post match analysis shows that from Aldi, I could have got a kilo of fries. to be thrown in the air fryer, a ribeye steak, and half a litre of chocolate brownie ice cream for a total of £8.80. (Lots of extras left for the next steak. so total cost per meal of about £7.00)

That's the way to go next time I'd say, and no driving involved.

As I told my Oncologist once.... "Food is far more addictive than any drug!" Hard luck David, I would put weight on with that diet as well!
I had meat and veggies for Breakfast and tea but oat cakes, a tomato and a knob of cheddar for dinner.

Same as yesterday.... It means I never feel full. That's the trick I think as you get older.

Its Hot Cross Bun season and the less cheap ones are 4 packs at M and S . Cheese ones . makes a change from a cheese scone, a bit chewy. Thought I would get Apple ones too, they still had raisens in them. Sweet and I could not be bothered to toast. Only really got them as M and S Food are at the hospital where I had to accompany mum on a day trip to have a suspect bit on her back looked at, its ok but I will have to up the washing and moisturising regieme a little bit

I had meat and veggies for breakfast and tea and my oatcake cheese and tomato snack for dinner.
For light entertainment I made savoury rice as an extender.....

Another light day with 2X meat and veggies but an oatcake snack at dinner time.

The topping for my oatcake snack at dinnertime yesterday was tinned mackerel in hot and spicy sauce with a boiled egg topping. I recommend it! Two helpings of meat and veggies for breakfast and tea.

Meat and veggies X three. I am getting last week's batch into a corner and will be roasting a chicken today.....

Meat and veggies X three, Veggie cooking today!

Pork joint will need to come out of the freezer today for Monday's tea.

PanBiker wrote: ↑18 Apr 2025, 09:37 Pork joint will need to come out of the freezer today for Monday's tea.

Love a bit of hog

Eldest offspring and his wife are coming for tea today, I am making focaccia and a seafood pasta. The shellfish has defrosted overnight in the fridge, the king prawns, haddock and salmon can be cooked from frozen. It'll be in a bechamel sauce with padano cheese, onions, garlic, basil and oregano served with rigatoni pasta. Pudding is cheese, grapes, strawberries, chocolate a shot of Limoncello and then coffee to finish.

There are focaccia pics in the Daily Bread Thread https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/vie ... &start=275

Very continental Kev, sound excellent even though I don't do seafood, enjoy

Grilled gammon for me with egg, tomato and air fried wedges as we have some redskin spuds to use up.

I had the very last helping of last week's batch for breakfast, nothing for dinner beyond nibbles of what I was cooking and straight veggies for tea from today's cooking. Very clean fresh taste. Carl delivered my meat, I have a slab of pork belly waiting in the fridge for it's moment! The next chicken and legs are in the freezer.

Fishy Pasta


Homemade Focaccia


Pudding