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Turned yet more green tomatoes into ketchup, with some chillis. Also made a ginger loaf, but it sunk in the middle. Peach and raspberry cobbler at the Community Kitchen.
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- Finished Bodies.
- Had a bit of an intense co-op week; only worked two days, but it felt like a very long week indeed.
- Chilli forest and accompanying aphids moved into my living room for the winter.
- The weather picked up again, back to normal programming for November in Fife.
- Made pumpkin pie (which was actually squash and sweet potato) at the Community Kitchen, and chocolate ginger tart for N's birthday.
- Foraged blewits, cloud agaric, agricus.
- Went to Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair, saw some talks on climate stuff, and bought many books.
- Wrote, on the beach, in the hammock, and in various Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh cafes.
- Swam in the sea.
- Week two off work.
- Dramatic skies.
- A trip to Linlithgow market, and theatre and dinner in Glasgow.
- Removed the builtin hallway cupboards, finally, but the person who asked for them changed their mind after actually bothering to measure their space, so now they're taking up space in the stairwell >:( R helped me to plaster the gaps.
- Harvested... and resorted to fermenting everything.
- Made chocolate raspberry cakes at the Community Kitchen; seitan pepperoni at home for pizza; raspberry and blueberry scones; a ton of summer fruit compote.
- First of two weeks off. Fully off. Managed, eventually, to stoically ignore work emails.
- Braw sunny days.
- Swam in the sea.
- Made apple crumble and tons of raspberry compote at the Community Kitchen, and excellent bean curry and chanterelle risotto at home.
- Helped K&M with painting and Lowenna walkies.
- Visited J and co in Helensburgh.
- Went to A&D's wedding anniversary party.
- Tagged onto the last day of the Kirkcaldy Walking Festival.
- Tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and courgettes still going strong.
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The buttercream lessons of last week paid off, and I successfully frosted the Community Kitchen rose and orange sponge. Also made rose and almond jelly/panna cotta puddings... The rose water from the summer really needed to be used up.
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Due to being behind on my NaNoWriMo wordcount I had a pressing need to find out if jelly made an acceptable sponge cake filling, and also to decorate a two layer cake in elaborate buttercream frosting.
My first mistake was not skimming the domed top from one of the layers. My second mistake was to use the layer that had already split as the top layer instead of the bottom. My third, was not mixing the buttercream thick enough. My fourth was not mixing the new buttercream thin enough. My fifth was not doing a crumb layer of buttercream before the top coat. And overall I should not be trying to frost cakes late at night.
It looked like it'd been dropped, but it tasted good. I can confirm, jelly is an acceptable sponge cake filling.
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Pear and almond tart at the Community Kitchen.
Week in review: 6th - 12th November
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Cooking with agarics and blewits from the woods.
Fancy chocolate tart with ginger and rose for N's birthday.
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Apple cake, and there was some leftover puff pastry so I made a strudel with apple and homemade (not by me) fig jam.
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Fancy pear and almond tart, and beet brownie at the Community Kitchen.
Chanterelles in dahl (criminal right, but I've had so many chanterelles..), with inkcaps on top.
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Made many mushroom pies with ceps and cloud agarics and chestnuts, most went in the freezer.
Used my new silicon bundt tray to make a very fancy cake. I started with an orange polenta cake recipe, and substituted almost every ingredient (including orange - with lemon and lime, and polenta - with maize). It was still gluten free and vegan and delicious, and looked pretty too.
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Made peach cobbler at the Community Kitchen (and hear later it was a big hit!).
An excellent lasagne at home with tomato/lentil/chanterelle sauce, and entire layers of ceps because we finally found enough to be extravagant.
Plus a rather fantastic apple pie with a super simple shortbread crust (was craving shortbread, and had so many apples to use up... and it was way faster than pastry. Will make again!).
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Bread and butter pudding at the Community Kitchen. Summer fruit jelly at home, with the leftovers from bottling.
Week in review: 28th August - 3rd September
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Chocolate chip raspberry muffins at the Community Kitchen.
Seitan pepperoni for pizza. Acquired some vegan cheese, so had some exciting toasted wraps on my new grill pan.
Had a handful of raspberries and blueberries from the garden, so I put them in scones.
Processed a load of other berries into mixed fruit compote.
Week in review: 21st - 27th August
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Apple crumble. A phonecall from a local business asking if we'd take 12kg of defrosting raspberries. I said I'd stay late to process them into compote, how could we say no?!?
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Beetroot brownies and apple crumbles at the Community Kitchen