Pane casareccio di Genzano
“Renowned for staying fresh for 7 days”. With Dan Leader’s guidance.
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5 Knee jobs give useful boost to Consultant’s Christmas shopping!
Consultant Sean O’Leary gave 5 anxious customers an early Christmas present by adding a Saturday morning to his busy operating schedule. Getting a knee-jobs done just before Christmas week meant his lucky patients were excused Christmas shopping. At £640 each for the 20 minute procedure O’Leary boosted his Christmas funds and, despite oversleeping, he himself
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Tokyo Jazz: Shibusashirazu Orchestra at ShinJuku Pit Inn
My guidebook describes the typical Tokyo jazz club program as ‘geriatric’. Not a comment on the music which can be as exciting and high quality as in any in the US or Europe, but rather on the hours they keep. This suits me just fine! With a sleep deficit and a slight fear of the
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Fish for ever! Tsukiji market.
Imagine a market. Not with one or two fish stalls, but one completely dedicated to fish. Walk through it to reach another the same. And then another. And then another. And yet more. At Tsukiji the fish seems to go on forever! Business starts early with auctions mostly of tuna – the record price this
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Saturday Bread
4 ‘Tartine’ style loaves, two tins with Stoates 100% organic wholemeal (foreground right), and two tempered with 15 % white plus 15% rye (back to right). Last month in Oslo I spent the nights on a mattress in my host’s library. The first of many temping volumes was Tartine Bread. The author Chad Robertson has
Baker’s delight
Getting great flour is not so difficult in this Internet age, but getting flour at a reasonable price is not so easy. I recently spotted the story of a home baker scaling up – Birch Cottage Bread. An interesting subject for me as my Kenwood mixer bought specially for preparing dough had stopped working, and I
TGO Photo Reflections #1
I gave up carry a big camera on walking trips some years ago when I discovered that this was a major source of back trouble. Now compact digital is the order of the day. Digital cameras don’t enjoy wet conditions however. My older Pentax Optio was often out of action for a few days after rain until it
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TGOC Morar to St Drostan’s – The Pictures
Morar & The Way East! Here’s some of the pictures. Click on any picture below …. you will probably a a zoomed image showing more detail. The location map feature is not available here. TGO blogs for following years include OS maps of the route which no longer work on the original Google’s Blogspot posts.
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Saturday Bread
After 2 weeks of withdrawal in the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands during the TGO Challenge its good to return to homemade bread and find the starter is still working!
2012 TGOC day 13 the east coast!
After Edzel it becomes a typical UK farming landscape with fields of green wheat and barley and the bright yellow of blooming rape. My final destination was St Cyrus and the route was along country lanes. One fellow clipping his hedge said ‘you’ll be the first today!’ – as if he and other locals follow
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