The rain began in the night but Storm Bert didn't arrive here until mid-day when it certainly got very wild and wet. What has been most noticeable has been the incredible warmth brought in by a weather system from the south. Later in the afternoon I saw three surfers out in the bay but although there was some enormous swell I don't think they managed to catch any waves.
This was the perfect day to devote to making truffle centres. I now have about 100 centres; plain, ginger, salted caramel and fudge in the freezer. The ganache needed stirring every 5 minutes and Speedy soon learnt to jump off my lap when the kitchen timer rang. It's easier making a bigger batch and there was only one messy process, rolling each centre by hand to make some approximation of a ball. Now that's done I can have a break from the kitchen and nearer to time I will dip them in chocolate which is something I've finally got the hang of doing without covering everything in chocolate drips.
Once I'd cleared up after the truffles I went on to make a large vegetable korma which will do for several meals. Not completely from scratch but I checked the ingredients on the sauce jar and they seemed acceptable. We usually avoid processed foods as a lot of the ingredients are so unhealthy. I can make naans as they're so simple to make, yoghurt, self raising flour, mix, knead a bit and dry fry but I won't tonight as we're having vegetable pakoras and I've had enough time in the kitchen. They're the Morrisons deli ones which were double reduced from £2.75 to 69p for four. Again they might be verging towards the processed foods but I'm definitely not deep frying anything.
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Gosh that sea looks rough i hope the storm is not too bad on the Welsh coast. We are having floods round here, with only one main road through the valley, flooding makes it impassable so people drive from up on the tops and come down the small lanes as near as they can get to the town. Truffles are sounding delicious.
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