oursin | Culinary

This week's bread: Len Deighton's Mixed Wholemeal from The Sunday Times Book of Real Bread: 3:1:1 wholemeal flour, strong white flour, mixture of wheatgerm, coarse cornmeal, pinhead oatmeal, splosh of sunflower oil: v nice.

Saturday breakfast rolls: the ones loosely based on James Beard's mother's raisin bread, made with strong brown flour: not the best these have ever come out (?not enough mace).

Today's lunch: game crumble - game casserole mix (pheasant, partridge, venison) cooked with garlic, onion, bayleaf, salt, pepper and red wine in a low oven for an hour or so, then a crumble topping of 2:1:1 strong wholemeal flour/strong white flour/pinhead oatmeal + butter + seasoning + crushed coriander seeds spread on and baked in a moderate oven for a further 30 minutes; served with slow-cooked broccoli florets, and baby leeks vinaigrette - gave them rather longer simmering, a dressing of olive oil, white wine vinegar and wholegrain mustard, and toasted breadcrumbs, rather good.

With that we had the traditional anniversary champagne - 40 YEARS!!!

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tigerflower

Mazel tov on your anniversary!

oursin

Thank you!

choirwoman

Oh wow, happy anniversary! (we hit 31 in July, we'll never catch up with you)

brokenallbroken

Happy anniversary!

kotturinn

Happy Anniversary.

nou

violsva

Happy Anniversary!

pameladean

Happy anniversary! I don't think that I've noticed before that David and I are in the same approximate time space with you and partner -- we celebrated our 40th anniversary back in December. We ordered sushi, as has become traditional.

P.