Monday 29 September 2014

Cancer fight again

I have had two years of good progress after brain surgery and radiotherapy,  a few weeks ago I started to feel a little unwell and had a few seizures. 
After a few days in hospital with a change in meds and a chat with my medical team, it was decided that I should start Chemotherapy as soon as possible. It's not as bad as you see on TV as I only had to have an IV of chemo to start with that lasted no longer than 10 minutes. I also have tablets to take at home every day and steroid tablets so eating lots :) made a sourdough today keeping up normality as much as I can. 
I am also hoping to return to college soon and other activities so watch this space.

Thanks to everyone for their suppport over the years especially Belfast Cookery School and Mourne Seafood bar 

Saturday 6 September 2014

Bread and Butter

 Last Saturday while I was in London I visited Crystal Palace Food Market http://www.crystalpalacefoodmarket.co.uk/sample-page/ this is what I came away with.


As well as a lot of inspiration after talking to organisers and producer and bakers thank you all. 
Oh nearly forgot 4 LPs all for £1 playing now perfect Stevie Wonder Songs in the key of life. 

So a few days later I still had some amazing Sourdough left some butter and a small tub of raw cream, bread and butter a must make.
All I need was organic eggs, I had raisens in the cupboard as well as marmalade. 
The cream was solid a wonderful thick grassy fruity tasting cream, I whisked it together with two egg and added a little water just to losen it slightly and a teaspoon of sugar.  
Cut the remaining sourdough spread it thickly with butter and marmalade then layered it in a Pyrex dish with raisens and poured over the custard mix pressed down the bread so it soaked up all the wonderful raw goodness. Set it in the fridge for a few hours to allow the sourdough to soak up the custard. Before baking I let the pudding get to room temp and sprinkled a few teaspoons of brown sugar on top. Then baked it for about 35 mins at 165 oC I kept a good eye on it as I had never used the oven before, I would recomend adding a ban Marie but didn't have a dish suitable in the rented apartment. 
Served on its own wonderfully rich.