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preferably battered with chips and a pickled egg.

nuno and you should apply!

This!

Compete! Compete and win!

I got an application form, but I'm not filling it in until 'loveproductions.co.uk' sort their data protection out, the email they sent me had someones personal details attached at the bottom, muppets.

finally got my pics from my phone:
muffins:

Brownies (triple choco fudge of death):

Melissa Bakery in Hornsey - the tahini bread is lovely. The olive loaf is off the scale good. Reasonably priced and totally without pretension.

Im going to try the olive bread when I make it back up north. Im having tahini bread withdrawal symptoms, its been 4 days....

I tell you, the olive bread is superb. Tonnes of olives and some sweated shallot (pretty sure it wasn't onion) for sweetness, fresh soft loaf...best I've tasted. We ate the whole thing in the Crouch End branch of Barclays, leaving no tip.

finally got my pics from my phone:
muffins:

Brownies (triple choco fudge of death):

What are you talking about? They look great.

they tasted great.
left them in the moulds? for too long- which meant they collapsed.
rookie.

Didn't fold the mixture ;-)

oh I fucking origami'd that shit.

also I didn;t realise how much I missed my mums cooking till today.
Lentil Soup. amazing.
Partridge Pot Roast. Amazinger.

Too rough ;-)

mince pies, 3 batches of 24 done, another one to go. maybe more if I can be bothered to make more pastry and source some decent mincemeat

yummylicious, my mums recipe n all

oh and I've been getting better at the bread baking recently. made some love rye bread last night, a little underdone to be honest but not too dense.

anyone else getting on the bread? I've got a sourdough starter brewing away in the kitchen at the moment. made a couple of loafs from it but the cold weather has made it a bit temperamental. last loaf took over 24 hours to rise which was a bit of an arse. planning a pizza party for tuesday, might risk making sourdough bases, but a little worried it might go propper tits up.

Yup - make all my own bread. Can't stand the supermarket crap now, and half the stuff you get from bakeries is sugar and salt laden crap too. It's so good and easy, there's really no reason not to do it.

I'm making callos con garbanzos today... Tripe with chick peas (also includes chorizo, pigs feet, spare ribs and potatoes)... Should look a little bit like this...
I c a n ' t w a i t . . . Nom!

^ Looks like someone's eaten a full English with a hangover and thrown it up again shortly afterwards.

I mean... Looks lish.. ;-)

Yup - make all my own bread. Can't stand the supermarket crap now, and half the stuff you get from bakeries is sugar and salt laden crap too. It's so good and easy, there's really no reason not to do it.

+1 I still keep a sliced loaf in the freezer for those guests who want conventional rubbish. My two old bread tins have become my new best friends in the kitchen this year. Never wash them, just wipe out and go again.

TS I love that kinda thang. Johnny foreigner always cooks tripe 10x better than us Brits. This kind of weather demands slow cooking. Yesterday after a successful morning xmas shopping there was only one thing for it. Batten down the hatches, whack a pork belly in the oven, uncork a nice red, veg out.

With a soy, mirin and honey sauce, jasmine rice and fresh greens.

And yes. I scoffed that whole plateful.

^ That looks fantastic! :D

Aye burp. Also cut my first of this years batch of homebrew chorizo today.

Definitely my best effort yet.

^ That's something I've been meaning to do for years... My aunt makes fantastic chorizo back home so was gonna nick her recipe...

BTW Looks excellent, very well cured... The way it should be... ;]

^ making me so hungry..

i'm planning to cook 39 cloves of garlic baked dish with chicken breasts (plus chorizo) the original dish is by nigella lawson with calabrian stuffed onions (cibatta bread/pecorino cheese /capers/olives/basil/ parsley ) orginal dish is by antonio carluccio..

i always treat my kids as guinea pigs to this sort of stuff at weekends.. wish me luck

Coq au vin

Bun and cheese