Do I really need to spell out what this last pic is about? Mwahahahaha!
I bought all of these pretties from the little Vietnamese bakery in the Research shops [right down the end near the roundabout]. I was really impressed by the plastic screen installed in front of the cash register and the restraint of the two guys behind me. One was just inside the door – well over 2 metres from me. The second was outside the door, a safe distance from customer no. 1. And we were ALL wearing masks.
“Today is turning into a very good day,” says Meeks as she licks her chops.
December 16th, 2020 at 1:36 pm
You decadent wench, you! 😀
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December 16th, 2020 at 3:28 am
Oh, breadbreadbreadbreadbread! I can resist doughnuts, but bread? Good bread? No. Can’t be done.
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December 16th, 2020 at 7:14 am
lmao! Kindred spirit. 🙂 I cannot tell you how wonderful this bread tastes. And we’ve made a most unexpected discovery: it defrosts beautifully! I thought I’d have to pop the defrosted bread in the oven for a minute or two…to ‘freshen it up’. But…the inside was just as light and fluffy as before AND…the crust was crunchy. Can you believe that?
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December 16th, 2020 at 10:54 am
:0 That’s amazing!! Want!
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December 15th, 2020 at 9:51 am
Mmmmmm… 😍
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December 15th, 2020 at 1:17 am
Enjoy! And whether you know it or not, jelly donuts are the traditional sweet of Chanukah. A nice confluence of cultures and baking.
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December 15th, 2020 at 10:29 am
OMG!?! I didn’t know. A nice confluence indeed. So…happy Chanukah?
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December 14th, 2020 at 6:22 pm
They all look delicious.
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December 14th, 2020 at 10:25 pm
They are. The jam donots are gone, as is 3/4 of one loaf. The rest have gone into the freezer. They won’t be as delicious thawed, but I pop them in the oven for a few minutes and they’re almost as good. 🙂
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December 14th, 2020 at 4:55 pm
Looks delicious – enjoy! 🙂
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December 14th, 2020 at 10:27 pm
Thank you, we did. 🙂 How are things going in Poland? Haven’t heard anything in a while.
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December 15th, 2020 at 7:08 am
Been meaning to drop you a line but time passes so quickly. All ok here, just juggling work/family and trying to write. Thus it ever was! *hugs*
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December 15th, 2020 at 10:22 am
lol – that’s a good normal. How are you managing the work part? Working from home? Or is Poland not as badly affected as other parts of Europe seem to be?
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December 16th, 2020 at 5:54 am
Things are quite strict here, but I don’t mind. I cycle to the office mainly to try to keep fit which will only work until the snow arrives. Have been tardy with the blog too as I’d rather keep going with the next book… Hope you’re writing over there, my dear 😉
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December 16th, 2020 at 7:11 am
That’s good news, Chris. Strict may not be fun, but it works, something far too many Western countries can’t, or won’t, accept.
I haven’t written a word in weeks, or done much on the blog either, because I’ve been getting my block fire ready. Honestly? I’m so tired every day, I fall into bed and barely have the energy to read for a minute or two. Hoping I’ll have things fully prepped before xmas. After that it’ll just be maintenance and hopefully I’ll be able to get back to writing.
The Repulse Chronicles – what book are you up to now? Second last?
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December 14th, 2020 at 12:38 pm
I’m drooling!
Hugs
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December 14th, 2020 at 4:23 pm
-grin- was yummy!
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December 14th, 2020 at 12:24 pm
Omg jelly donuts…my favorite favorite!
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December 14th, 2020 at 12:32 pm
-giggles- that always cracks me up. For us, jelly is the sweet wobbly stuff!
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December 15th, 2020 at 5:55 am
yup, the sweet wobbly stuff. Jelly is clear, while Jam is cooked fruit that isn’t strained, also called preserves.
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December 15th, 2020 at 10:28 am
Wait…now I really am confused. So jelly is the same jelly we think of? With no fruit in it at all?
We call anything that’s been preserved a ‘preserve’. E.g. compote, tomatoes, vegetables etc. language really is bizarre.
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December 18th, 2020 at 1:47 am
There was an old song that goes: “it must be jelly, ’cause jam don’t shake like that’…” (referring to a girl dancing.) ‘Preserves’ and refers to fruit cooked then allowed to gel without straining. Jelly is clear. Do you have Jell-O brand dessert. (I find that I have a lot to say about jelly/jam…been saving up a blog for years.) 🙂
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December 18th, 2020 at 9:17 am
Mmm…we /do/ have packet jellies that turn into a wibbly wobbly desert. But…I’ve read of people having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I assumed that meant PB and /jam/. How do you get a jelly to stay in a sandwich?
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December 19th, 2020 at 4:28 am
Scott, who is an expert on such matters, just advised: you put peanut butter on both sides of the bread, then spread jelly in between. The peanut butter keeps the jelly from seeping through and gumming up the bread.
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December 19th, 2020 at 8:30 am
Oh! Thank you, Scott! You two have solved a couple of long standing, culinary mysteries for me. 😀
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December 20th, 2020 at 6:17 am
Scott’s sister, Dau1, is opposed to jelly in the middle…so I guess its an international thing. I just spread jelly or (usually) jam on one slice of bread, and the peanut butter on the other.
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December 20th, 2020 at 7:47 am
lmao – I have to confess that I can’t stand peanut butter so I’m never going to give this particular taste sensation a try, but the Offspring might. 🙂
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December 19th, 2020 at 4:35 am
Jell-O is still a favorite dessert…and we also use it for salads. Lime jello with crush pineapple and grated carrots…very festive! (Some people add little marshmallows to both the salad or the dessert. Red Jello with fruit cocktail; Jello made with less water makes a substance that can be cut into squares and even eaten with the fingers. as a snack. Whip Jello when it is nearly set and mix in whipped cream or Cool-Whip. Yummy! I even like to put milk on the jello chunks and eat that…but that’s just me. 🙂
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December 19th, 2020 at 8:29 am
So your jello really is like our jelly! Actually, an Australian neighbour from my childhood used to make that whipped jelly dessert. She called it a ‘flummery’. We always thought it was a very ‘English’ kind of thing, but I loved it.
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December 20th, 2020 at 6:15 am
Jello-O is a name brand of gelatin dessert. There are other brands, and plain gelatin powder has its own uses. I never did anything with it but make Jell-O. I have heard the word “flummery” but not sure of the context. That whipped jelly is yummy, as I remember it, nice and creamy almost like yogurt. I should make some…
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December 20th, 2020 at 7:48 am
You may have heard of flummery while you were in the UK?
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December 20th, 2020 at 8:26 am
I just googled (actually used “bing”) to search the word “flummery.” Zounds! as we used to say in high school! Such a treasury of yummies right out of the King’s English Cookbook. I made that up, I have no idea if there is really a KEC Cookbook. All about Flummeries…figgy puddings…Christmas Puddings…plum puddings…oh my! My Englishness seeps out now and then, My mouth is watering! yikes Upon some thought, I suspect a lot of flummery (pun intended, I hear its a cuss-word of sorts too.) comes from our English settler heritage…
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December 20th, 2020 at 10:24 am
-giggles- my work is done. Flummery rules!
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December 20th, 2020 at 8:30 am
Now I’ll be singing that dratted song with the “bring out the figgy pudding, and bring it out now…we won’t go until we get some, we won’t go until we get some…so bring out etc. etc.”
I am an absolute grouch… or Grinch… about Christmas. I have always had love-hate relationship with Christmas stuff…. long story There’s nothing like baking Christmas cookies to bring out the bah-humbug in me!
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December 20th, 2020 at 10:23 am
I don’t know that song…but I think I’m glad! lol
I have a love/hate relationship with xmas as well. I used to love it when the Offspring was little, but now that all the kids are grown up it’s just…another day but with more housework and a better dessert.
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December 21st, 2020 at 8:16 am
I sometimes think that the less money we had for holiday spending, the happier the occasion when the kids were little.
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December 22nd, 2020 at 9:58 am
Yes! I remember making xmas decorations, some of which I still have. It was a challenge making xmas great on a tight budget but, it was also strangely satisfying. 🙂
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December 23rd, 2020 at 3:15 am
One year I had $25 total to spend on Christmas for my little kids, from a baby to a nine-year-old. I actually succeeded, thanks to mid-60s prices and Barbie dolls, coloring books and crayons, little toys for the four others who were under age 5. We also made tree decorations and the like. I did a lot of sewing then anyway, so I made doll clothes, etc.
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December 23rd, 2020 at 9:50 am
You made doll clothes? That’s fantastic. I bet Daughter #1 remembers that Christmas as one of the best. -hugs-
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December 20th, 2020 at 8:31 am
I’m adding the word flummery to my daily useage. Another F word lol.
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December 20th, 2020 at 10:22 am
lol – but at least it has eight letters!
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December 21st, 2020 at 8:12 am
flummery and falderol…and all that
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December 21st, 2020 at 8:15 am
Gotta love those eights!
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December 21st, 2020 at 8:17 am
ah ha…we seem to be chatting in real time
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December 22nd, 2020 at 9:57 am
Isn’t it nice when it happens? 🙂
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December 23rd, 2020 at 3:16 am
serendipity
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December 21st, 2020 at 8:18 am
less than that
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