I’ll definitely be trying this methinks.
The following Italian sourdough starter, or biga, uses the wild yeast naturally present in grapes. The fruit also provides the sugar on which the yeast feeds.
And now I have my big pot I’ll also be trying some no-knead bread over the weekend.
There’s a lot happening in the next couple of weeks, next week is Birmingham’s Ball and the Final Fling, both of which I will be cocktail waiting at (though possibly a little more like this) and Saturday is the first Lions Test, which if I had to call my Test 22 right now I’d go for:
Byrne, Bowe, BOD, Roberts, Fitzgerald, Jones, Phillips, Jenkins, Mears, Murray, Wyn-Jones, O’Connell, Croft, Wallace, Heaslip // Rees, Vickery, Hines, Williams, Ellis, O’Gara, Kearney
Then the week after is AMSU conference (for which I need to reinvent Agenda magazine’s online persona) and then Glastonbury.
In amongst all of that I also need to:
Slight worryingly this is apparently what my Granda has for breakfast – I definitely remember the mound of various cereals and fruits but the 7up’s a new one on me.
Watched this on Channel 4 last night, I think I…
Could eat: Snake, Rat, Jewel Beetle (as long as it was in the paste they had it in) and I’ve already eaten Horse
Wouldn’t want to eat but could if I had to: Blackbirds (not too sure on crunching the brains, but fine with the rest of it) and maybe Elephant
Couldn’t eat: Maggot Cheese, Dog
I’m still undecided on Monkeys – until i saw the programme I thought I’d’ve been ok with them but they did look a bit too much like skinned babies for my liking – maybe if they were bigger?
For my lunch today I had:
