getting a punnet of cherries at a roadside stall, putting them on the passenger seat and then eating cherries whilst driving with the hood down on a beautiful day on country roads (and disposing of the stones by shooting them out of the car with a u-shaped tongue - but I wouldn't tell you that).
I can never see or eat a cherry without thinking about the series of posts that Katherine wrote here which started with a punnet of cherries and ended with a painting .
It was another of Katherine's posts a few days ago which pointed me in the direction of a recipe here on Cro Magnon Man's blog. It was for bread which looked rather tasty and easy to make. This evening I decided that I was going to have a dinner of fresh bread and cheese and tomato and lovely things like that. I make most of my own bread in Eagleton but I use a breadmaker. I got this one decidedly wrong. Firstly I made it a bit too moist and secondly I discovered that my oven's 200℃ and a real 200℃ are quite far apart. The bread tasted good but was decidedly overdone.
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That bread could have been "me"! I do have a tendency to overdo stuff in the oven, out of fear it could be "not quite ready yet" inside when you cut the cake, bread or whatever it is.
ReplyDeleteAs for the cherries - ah, sweet reminder of June. Only another half year to go.
I'm happy with my gas oven in Eagleton Meike but I haven't got the measure of the electric oven here in NZ and I don't really use it often enough for things where the temperature is critical. Not long to cherries. In the UK cherries are available all the year round in the supermarket and the novelty of newly coming into season, as with many foods, has gone.
Deleteja niet alles lukt zoals wij zouden willen maar als het maar lekker is.
ReplyDeleteIt would be good stiefbeen if things did go as we would like but they don't. In the UK there is a saying that life is not always a bowl of cherries. Sorry I don't think this is translatable easily. I hope, though, that you may understand it anyway.
Deleteaw, I dislike overbaking anything, but especially bread! now I'm off to check out the recipe.
ReplyDeleteI think the recipe is good Norma. Just my ability that isn't.
DeleteThat's bread that was eaten by early man, was subsequently, fosslilsed, and has been recently exhumed. Experto crede. I'd sell it to a museum, GB.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha! Love it Frances! The Loaf of Scone? Actually, it looked ok to me GB she says hurriedly.
DeleteThank you Frances for your, erm, kind? words. But I have a thick skin. In fact I'm just pretty thick.
DeleteIt was actually edible Katherine but it was definitely overdone, very overdone.
Marmite to the rescue!!! The bread will be gone in no time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for painting that wonderful picture of you driving along country roads with the hood down, enjoying a punnet of cherries and u-spitting the stones as you drove along......now a dog on the seat beside you with his ears flapping in the wind, and the picture would be complete....smile.
The bread has gone Virginia. What I didn't eat today has gone in the bin. There is a limit. If I could draw I'd love to have done a cartoon of that which you describe.
DeleteI tried to stop for roadside cherries yesterday but couldn't do a u turn. Not happy. Love doing that eating them in the car :)
ReplyDeleteFiona I stopped on a whim when I saw the cherry sign but it was on my side of the road with a good pull-off.
DeleteI've had the pleasure of the cherry eating experience but not in a convertible. It sounds like a great bread recipe.
ReplyDeleteEating cherries in a convertible Red just makes getting rid of the stones easier.
DeleteCheery cherries! They are my favourite food after crayfish. Probably just have never had too much of either.
ReplyDeleteKatherine cherries are certainly one of my favourite fruits possibly vying with raspberries for the first place. Oh and water melon (in the right circumstances).
DeleteI remember Katherine's cherry painting :) And I love the taste of the real thing as well! As for the bread, I remember baking soda bread way back in the past. But I used to do mine in flat roasting pan. Must be over 20 years since I last made any - before I got lactose intolerant.
DeleteYes! The cherries bring happiness to me too!
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DeleteI love cherries too, second only to mangos ( mangoes ? - yes that looks better ) ! I gave the bread a go but was not happy with the result either. I found it was rather heavy. A bit like our damper but not as good. Not a bread -like texture anyway but I've no experience with making bread so it was probably just inexperience and ineptitude !!
ReplyDeleteHelsie thanks for visiting. I make bread all the time in Scotland but I use a bread-maker. I shall give this recipe one more try. I'll post the result when I eventually do it.
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