Cooking

I found this excellent recipe for Aphid Toffee, and tried it out today: 3 table spoons of sugar 3 table spoons fresh greenfly 4oz of butter 3 desert spoons of milk 3 desert spoons of treacle a little vinegar Boil gently for 20 minutes until a little dropped into cold water forms a ball. Chewy and sweet - pretty damned fine in...
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I was behind in my cycling mileage for this fortnight, and had hardly been on the bike since the Warwick triathlon two weeks ago. Officially, this was a rest period, after doing three sprint triathlons in six weeks. But also, I’d just reached a level of burnout, where I just didn’t want to cycle...
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Fresh from my triumph in the pool yesterday, I headed out for my Sunday bike ride this morning. The alarm went off at 06:00 . . . and I woke with a start at 06:20. It then took me an hour to get going - breakfast of porridge, peanut butter & ginger marmalade, washed down...
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They give you . . . . um . . . . gas / wind / etc. It might have something to do with the quantity I’ve been eating - dunno. That’s all.
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So last week, after my disaster with fish and porridge, Zappoman pointed me in the direction of some more professionally designed recipes for protein bars. Keen to never again repeat my error, I followed his link over to Foodnetwork.com, and found the recipes from an episode of a programme called Good Eats. So a trip...
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