Monday 26 October 2009

SUNDAY'S BREAKFAST

Scones on a Sunday morning :)
I know they are meant for tea...
Here is my recipe.
For 12 scones you'll need:
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 50g of salted butter
  • 1 cup of buttermilk
  • 1 and a half teaspoons of baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

Preheat the oven at 200C. Sift the flour, the baking powder and the bicarbonate of soda. Cut the butter in little cubes and add it to the flour. Rub in lightly using your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Make a well in the centre and pour in the buttermilk. Use a spatula to mix to a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface and knead lightly. Handle the mixture with a very light hand. If you knead the dough too much your scones will turn out very tough. With a rolling pin (or even by hand) press the dough out to a thickness of approx. 2cm. Then with a sharp cutter cut out your scones. I use a heart-shaped one :)

Place on an oven tray and bake for 10/12 minutes. I don't usally grease my tray and they never stick. Cool them for 10min. and serve them with strawberry jam and clotted cream.

Success guaranteed!

Thursday 22 October 2009

BUSY BEE :)

I have disappeared for a while ;)
I've got so many things going on in my life at the moment that sometimes I wish one day had more than 24 hours.
Halloween Soup!
It is good for you and for the bats, too!
Bafta hosted a series of screenings of new Japanese films. I got a couple of free tickets from the Japanese Embassy for "Teacher and Three Children", by venerable director Kaneto Shindo.

I also got tickets for Mental, a documentary about mental illness in Japan, by Kazuhiro Soda.
Both films were very good and I enjoyed them very much.


Royal Festival Hall. I was in for a treat...


A talk by Werner Herzog certainly means a big deal to me. I've been enjoying and admiring his work for something like 25 years!!! God, I'm getting old. I was 10 when I first saw "Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht".

He is a living legend yet very approachable and down to earth. Cool people are not stuck-up.

Very friendly and witty. A great mind, full of life and curiosity.
Genius!

Dinner by GP! Lovely :)

Lunch at Cafe Uno.