Kitchen Chemist

Slightly late, as the box arrived last Thursday, but here's my soon to be weekly veg box post. This weeks veg box contained (in addition to the weekly potatoes, carrots and onions): Kale Leek (a whopper) Broccoli Cauliflower By now most has been used, but pretending I wrote this last Thursday... here's my planned menu. Rabbit stew Haddock with a tomato sauce Roast beef Chicken and leek casserole Pasta arrabiata Cornish pasty Wild Boar stroganoff Plus Stilton and Broccoli soup & black-pudding scotch eggs.

First meal to use up some black pudding. This one-tray-only bake is nice and simple and the mix of vegetables makes for a more colorful meal. 1/2 butternut squash 4 carrots (small)  1 onion 1 celery stick 2 potatoes (small) 3 sausages 2 oz (50 g) black pudding 1 tsp fennel seeds 1 tsp rosemary Dice the vegetables, season with salt, pepper, fennel & rosemary and drizzle with oil. Roast at 180 °C for 40 mins, stir to ensure it crisps after 20 mins. Remove the sausage meat from the skins and blend with the black pudding. Roll into approximately 16 balls and add to the roasting veg for a further 20 mins cooking.

No veg box to blog about until Thursday but I have the assorted leftovers of New Year to use up this week. Meat (not able to be frozen unless cooked) : bacon x 4, sausages x 4, black pudding 450g Veg : cabbage, brocolli, leeks, butternut squash, peppers, celery, carrots, spud and onions. Cheese : brie, camembert, stilton, black sticks, dolcelatta, cheddar 12 eggs The plan (subject to change). Stilton and brocolli soup Brie sandwich Bacon, cheese and pepper flan Sausage, black pudding and butternut squash bake Beef stew (what I bought the leeks for) Black pudding scotch eggs (baked, using recipe in new cookbook)

Perhaps this coming year I'll make better use of my blog.

I originally intended to write this on Sunday evening, but time didn't allow it. A successful weekend of cooking. My first proper soughdough loaf on Friday. The starter has been growing for 10 days on Thursday when I took ~ 100g and added 200g of white flour and 240 g of water. Left overnight, I added a further 200g of wholemeal spelt/malted grain, a tsp of salt and some olive oil. By the afternoon it was ready for shaping and it was baked a couple of hours later.

I've just taken advantage of an offer on Amazon for a returned Kenwood Mixer attachment for £37 in Like New condition.

24 hours after mixing 30 g of organic spelt flour with water and leaving to do it's thing. I've now added 20 g of organic white and a little more water.