{"id":3784,"date":"2020-11-22T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2020-11-22T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T20:33:54","slug":"this-n-that-mainly-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3784","title":{"rendered":"This n That. Mainly Food."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, it’s not that I haven’t been working, it’s just that working is boring and food is much more exciting. Ben made pizza again, and we finally used the pizza shovel, which worked splendidly.<\/p>\n

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I only managed to get a blurry picture of his pizza though.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Julian has been on a Japanese cooking kick, so there have been anpan:<\/p>\n

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Anpan are a sort of brioche bun filled with sweetened mashed beans (I know, yum, right?)<\/p>\n

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Actually, they were amazing. Julian nailed the brioche dough and the filling technique.<\/p>\n

Julian also made some kind of soup bowl thing with dumplings, I forget the names:<\/p>\n

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And then they made sushi, which turned out amazing. We had to get some fancy stuff online but it actually wasn’t that hard.<\/p>\n

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Julian assembled them like a pro.<\/p>\n

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Some of the early attempts were a bit wonky, but the skill progression was clear.<\/p>\n

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And I made gyoza, which was a bit outside my comfort zone, but turned out to be pretty easy.<\/p>\n

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I made the wrappers<\/a> and the filling<\/a> from JustOneCookbook.com, which Julian has been using to all their recipes.<\/p>\n

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They turned out almost reasonable in appearance, and delicious, which is the point.<\/p>\n

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I am totally doing that again. Om nom nom.<\/p>\n

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If only we could have friends round, it really felt like the sort of thing you do for guests.<\/p>\n

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Aaaaannnnd in the world of actual work, I’ve been walling in my sewing and craft room.<\/p>\n

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The last wall to be framed! Except the other two. But they hardly count, they are more like partitions. This is the LAST WALL.<\/p>\n

Here’s a before picture:<\/p>\n

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And an after picture (with totally different lighting.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a slightly better before from inside the room, looking out over the piazza:<\/p>\n

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And the after shot, with a window so you can still look down on the piazza.<\/p>\n

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It’s a long way from done, but I do actually do a bit each day, which is pretty good going for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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