It's been many decades since beer was last made here in our converted brewery home, although walking around the oldest part of the house, you can still see plenty of signs of what went on where. The Stoic Spouse made a token effort at authenticity last year when he bought an old wooden barrel to convert into a water butt, but we later discovered that it was actually a red wine barrel. Man, that barrel smelled good. Anyway, sometimes a lass needs peace and quiet, so last weekend I sent the Continue Reading
A Ludicrously Easy Bread Recipe (Before I Get Back To The Knitting)
OK, this post isn't strictly knitting, but... This bread recipe is so easy that it ought to be illegal, because such an extreme level of gorgeousness will make folk assume that you slaved over it for hours, and it's surely wrong to be the source of such deception. When I say that it takes two minutes* to put together, I'm not joking, and I say that as the person who looks at most recipes and thinks, "Yeah right is that gonna take a mere half hour to make: two hours, more like." So in case Continue Reading