Anyway, so on Sunday, I baked a batch of all butter cookies with much less sugar, so they are Lawi friendly. he's more and more curious about what we eat, and wants in on the experience too, so baking my own means I can offer him a bit without worrying about the ingredients too much. His portion only amounts to something like 2 grams of sugar, and he has 1-2/day, so not too bad there (yes, I did a rough calculation, scales were involved, and no, I'm not obsessive, I just like to know, and I'm not being defensive here either, just trying to explain my reasons :-/). Well, the cookies are yummy, and there's still one left in the cookie tin and there's a roll of dough in the fridge for another batch to be made ASAP (possibly tomorrow though).
Yesterday (Monday), thanks to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's 'River Cottage Everyday' hardback, I finally took the plunge and started a bread starter. I've been baking my own bread, albeit irregularly for years, with the help of a bread making machine, but I've wanted to have my own starter going for over a year, since reading about it in a paper on the train home from work over a year ago. What I did not know, till [my locavore hero] Hugh opened my eyes to it, is that I could make my own starter. Saw the recipe weeks ago but been ooooh-ing and aaaah-ing about the work of feeding it and not killing it etc, but decided enough is enough and did it. After all, I've kept a kombucha SCOBY alive for over 2 years, surely I have some experience in keeping fermenting organisms alive - for a while?! *Whispers* killed my kefir grains last year after a year and a half of keeping them going *oops!*. In my defence, I was pregnant, and I developed an aversion to the poor kefir grains.
Anyway 24 hours into it, I've started feeding it (feels wrong calling it 'it', should give 'her' a name, like the lady I can't name as I did not 'bookmark' her name, who sowed the seed into my head in the daily paper I cannot remember...) and she's blossoming just fine. This I know because she had that
Another recipe I really want to try, is home made corned beef. Again, I first became aware of the fact I can actually make my very own good quality corned beef , thanks to HFW's wonderful recipe from The River Cottage Meat Book. I still have no possession of this book, but it's on my wish list for my birthday in October - hubby is well aware. I'm not waiting till then to get my corned beef done though, thanks to this wonderful tool at my disposal, called the internet. I just need to get a good organic brisket and the ingredients and I'll be set.
Hmmmmm, what about my Raw Flirtation? Well, that's still on too. It's all about balance for me. Admittedly, living on a high raw diet is much more difficult for me right now, as I need to invest in the tools that will make it easier for me... new blender (mine died a few months ago), new juicer (current one struggling), a food processor (never owned one) , and they are expensive. I still juice though, and eat lots of salads and fruit and go through periods where all I want is an abundance of raw foods. I've tried forcing it and feel like I fail but I need to be kind to me. I've come to realise that if it does not come easy to me, I don't force it till it does, otherwise I'm being dishonest. Being healthy for me, involves all of the above. I cannot lie to me. I'm a die hard carnivore, I love meat. I love cooked food generally. I also love raw foods. This is the real me. Good food, cooked, raw, all well grown and well reared.
Next update on the bread starter, she'll have a name. Feel free to throw some at me if you've any ideas!
Till next time. Stay brightly blessed.
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