29-03-25

Morning, everyone; welcome to a cold and frosty Saturday morning.  To be fair, it WAS cold and frosty earlier but by the time I had fed Bubbles and Squeak and cleared the mess, the frost was melting rapidly and it's all gone now, the sun is shining brightly and I'm looking forward to a very pleasant day with not an awful lot I HAVE to do.

SW was OK yesterday.  I gained a pound but I wasn't surprised as I've been a bit off track a few times last weekend and it didn't help that I dived face first into some cashews on Thursday evening.  Very healthy, yes, but not necessarily diet friendly, not the amount I managed to polish off.

Anyway, we move on, and I moved on to Morrisons for what I hopefully thought of as a 'small shop'.  Small it was, cheap it wasn't.  It never is nowadays!

I used the first of the sourdough bases to make this dinner with coleslaw on the side.

The pizza was, taken as a whole, really tasty but the base wasn't a 1--% success - the bits that weren't covered by topping were OK - quite solid and hard but OK - but the middle was really heavy and stodgy.  Edible, good flavour, just too heavy and, as I found out overnight, indigestible too.
Oh, well, you have to try!

I have another base in the freezer and I think I am going to try it as a calzone and see if baking it that way with a filling rather than a topping makes a difference.  Worth a go anyway.

(And while I am thinking pizza, I wholeheartedly recommend Mutti classico pizza sauce.  It's in a can, isn't cheap, is absolutely delicious and I have eight small pots of single portions for future pizzas, whether they be proper ones, or using a wrap or some pitta as a base - which make it much more economical than you would think at first).

I'm not giving in, mind you.  I think I will do what I should have done first time and follow the original recipe instead of trying to change anything.  And if that doesn't make any difference, I was write off that recipe and look for another one.  After all, this is a journey of discovery, isn't it?  A culinary education, part of lifelong learning.

I also found, just this morning, a recipe/detailed instructions for a 100% wholemeal sourdough loaf and I am going to follow it through, bit by bit.  

With these in mind, I have fed both Bubbles and Squeak to activate them and am trying both recipes, seeing as I have a free weekend and can be around.

The other thing I absolutely want to do today or, at the latest, tomorrow is go through March's finances.  I don't have any more expenses until April 1st so I can close that page.  There won't be anything to move into savings because of the extra expenses in April (car, hearing aids, glasses, holidays - eeeek) but I will know where I am and whether I can cover the costs without taking from short term savings.  Knowledge is power, isn't it?

Time to go so I will love you and leave you and wish you a very restful and/or enjoyable Saturday.  xx