The usual combination, two days of strong winds form the north (and some heavy rain) so today it turned round and a southerly front came through with thunderstorms and heavy rain.

In the gap I managed to pull up all the past-their-best plants from the southern vege bed and get a row of peas in. I also pulled almost the last of the carrots and made chilled carrot and orange soup. Which, with fresh rye bread, was a damned fine lunch.



The bread is a current favourite; I've finally found a good rye recipe. The trick is burnt sugar and caraway seeds, plus it's only 25% rye flour :) Today's loaves were baked baguette style, so sprayed with water every two minutes at the beginning and cooked really hot.

It's been a cooking couple of days, yesterday I made the best ever date scones and I know I'll never manage to reproduce them. They were made with dodgy old dates (soaked in orange juice) and the dough was way too wet – so a lucky accident I think.

Then, to continue the theme, I spent the evening shelling the last of the broad beans. Once they're blanched for freezing they lose the colour, but at least until then they're beautiful!

Tags: Veges, Bread, Beans