A Few Thoughts on Baking

I aspire to be the sort of person who produces freshly baked good each week. Whether it’s tasty cakes or traybakes to offer to guests or colleagues, or fresh bread to enjoy in the morning, I’d love to be making new things and impressing people with my baking skill. Sadly, like many people, when there’s a list of other things to be done baking falls to the bottom of my to-do list and I rarely actually get round to it. However, a day off recently provided me with the perfect opportunity to get stuck in. I planned to spend the day baking in advance, so I wouldn’t feel guilty about doing so, and to make sure I had all the right ingredients (although typically I still ended up doing a mad dash to the shop after running out of something halfway through weighing it), and I’d forgotten how much joy… View Post

Bank Holidays

Ah bank holiday weekends – a time that everyone looks forward to… Well actually, this is the first bank holiday weekend where I have been able to appreciate the fact that I get an extra day off work. In the past, I have either been working part time so it doesn’t make much difference, or I have worked in a pub and so the bank holiday has been spent working on one of the busiest days of the summer. This year however, I can sit back, relax and enjoy the weekend. View Post