Volumes from Verulamium – 2.0

As the chick said when he saw the hen lay an orange. Tomorrow: We can haz marmalade. Am leaving to soak overnight ready to make the marmalade tomorrow evening. Technical notes: Nikon D90. Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Macro 1:1 Di 1/60 @ f/3.8 ISO 200. Built-in flash.

Well, not quite an addiction.  But mmmm, lovely coffee! Quite like this.  Going to try it again at some point but with a small amount of rear curtain flash to sharpen the foam without losing the effect of the stream of coffee flowing into the glasses.  And that reminds me, I must also descale the [...]

The diet bit the dust for the Christmas break.  Variously, I can recommend: Mary Berry’s Christmas Chocolate Log.  Recipe here. Picture of our version above. Nigella’s Roast squash and sweet potato soup with buttermilk blue cheese sauce. No need to peel the squash or the sweet potato; we used low fat yogurt instead of buttermilk. [...]

The last Sunday before Advent is often called ‘Stir-up Sunday.’  Traditionally it’s when Christmas pudding was made.  As we’re not having one of those this year, we made our cake instead.   I forgot to post this last week; the cake is now safely tucked away coming out only to be ‘fed’ with brandy on an [...]