#WearnKitchenMakeover - Cooking in Chaos

I am currently between ovens - as we're mid way in the 2 week kitchen renovation - which I know is a terribly short time in the scheme of things, but it doesn't help. It boils down to this - you don't notice how much you use the hob, or the grill till you don't have one.

We've set up a makeshift kitchen, set up in the dining room - all the essentials - microwave, toaster, kettle, toastie maker, coffee grinder - and the dishwasher is still working - which is good since what little room around the sink is full of ramekins full of nails.

The worst of it is the not being able to find things - the dining room is currently full of boxes, which also means there's no room to put anything, or do anything - it took me 10 mins of going through bags of things to find chocolate spread to put on some french bread for pudding (I gave up trying to find a bread knife, so I tore it in satisfying hunks of baguette)

I know it will end soon - I'm not entirely sure when the plumber / gas man is returning to connect the new/old cooker - but as soon as the kitchen is tiled at least we'll have room to prep food etc. I'm already working on what to cook first in my oven =D

GBBO 2012 - Links, Twitter & Blogs

Right a round up of twitter accounts and other people's blog posts about this years Great British Bake Off -Feel free to add things I've missed in the comments BBC website Official site - http://www.thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/ The Guardian Great British Bake Off: which bakers are rising to the top? - 7/09/12 Great British Bake Off: what do you make of the finalists? - 10/10/13 Twitter British Bake Off ‏ @BritishBakeOff Paul Hollywood ‏ @Hollywoodbaker James Morton ‏ @bakingjames John Whaite ‏ @flour_and_eggs Ryan Chong @RyanChongUk Cathryn Dresser @cat_dresser Sarah-Jane Willis @sj_willis Manisha Parmar @2000manisha Daniele Bryden @DannytheBaker Stuart Marston-Smith @StuMarstonSmith Brendan Lynch @brendanbakes Bake Off Owl ‏ @gbbo_owl # GBBO

Tofu Recipe Round Up

More for my own benefit then anything else I'm going to round up my favourite go-to weeknight tofu recipes. This is different from my pinterest board which is full of things I haven't necessarily tried yet but look yummy. Vegan Tofu Taco Crumbles Vietnamese Fried Tofu w/ Tomato Sauce – Dau Sot Ca Chua (I airfry the tofu for this one) I also like to slather it in BBQ sauce and bake it for about 40 mins with peppers and onions before adding it to wraps with some salad. I've also found it's a great substitute for paneer in things - it's not quite there but it's close oh, and if I do need to press it, and I haven't got time (which is almost always) I used the microwave method from this chirpy little video

The Fish Graveyard

I suppose I should update you on the fish - we've currently got 3 Isambard*, Nietzsche , Vince - they seem fine. The extreme cold did a few in and they probably need some proper TLC. Anyway - Pete and I were trying to recall other fish we'd had over the years so I started scanning the blog for fish related posts and I came across the fish graveyard from an old bit of my website that still floating around the tubes of the internet... So here it is - in memory of of the valiant pets of old. And for the ones that don't have little grave markers (or dates) Darnell Bertrand Pushkin Heisenburg I should possibly make a marker for the tomb of the unknown goldfish because I'm sure we've forgotten one... .. time for some more fish? Any ideas for names?? *We were slightly uncertain for a while if it was Heisenburg or Isambard that had survived

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