A New Someone In Our Cottage

 No we haven’t acquired a new pet, or adopted a child…Meet Little Dorrit…my sourdough starter.

Here she was a mere infant…since then she has grown many loaves of delicious bread, some Chelsea buns, chocolate brownies, pizza bases and today I’m trying some dumplings from her excess.

The first offspring from Little Dorrit

Went something like this…

Nearly gone then the next thing we knew…

Nothing but crumbs left…we did have the family from next door in I hasten to add!!

Very chocolatey, very squidgy brownies…delicious.

And finally the pizza we ate last evening.

In other news, and apart from being three sizes bigger than I was we have succumbed to the nasty lurgy here. It started last week with a real whopper of a headache, then progressed to a sore throat which felt like I’d swallowed a pinch of tin-tacks, next to arrive were the aches and shivers, along with the old faithful fatigue…but oh the best was yet to come. Let’s just say I was up and down the stairs A LOT for three days. Finally what seems much like a head cold has emerged. Blooming knackered just looking at the housework that needs doing. Thankfully work have been very understanding and pretty quickly suggested I didn’t attempt to get back this week. It was the right call. I’m off on annual leave next week so hopefully will have a good amount of time to recover. Even better hubby started with a headache the night before last…oh so the joy continues!

Put it this way I took out some beef skirt earlier intending to make stew..I didn’t have the strength to cut it up like normal, so in it went…two great lumps…beef casserole anyone?!

Eldest popped in a short while ago and commented on the lovely smell so maybe things will turn out alright in the end.

Hoping to stay awake long enough this afternoon to do some blog catch up reading.

Until next time, blessings, J. x