AspiringLuddite @AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host

In the medieval period, brawn referred to meat in general, often pork. Modern brawn is typically made by simmering a pig's head and trotters, and keeping it in the gelatin produced. It is called head cheese in North America. The hardest part of making it can be sourcing the head in the first place.

Good though.

Pizza with store-bought mozarella and home-made pesto (spinach, garlic, ground almonds, olive oil, and home-made cheese) about to go in the oven. I'm pleased with the result.

@yann brought my new coronet with him this past weekend. Let the wails of envy commence ....

Fear me, for I have made a decent pie crust. Pie crust, home-made cheese with garlic, a leek, a courgette, three eggs, some salt and pepper.

This was the worst snowstorm of the year in Cambridge ;-)

The mighty hunter and her prey ...

A certain degree of feline detente has been reached ...

While we were at Coronation, the new cat leveled up in Escapology, and we were forced to improvise ...

I am not well known as a baker, and as a cake decorator even less so. But I made this for my wife, because she asked me to, and I love her ..
#cooking

And a near-perfect turn-out. #cooking

As I walked into this charity shop - http://www.wnda.org.uk/pages/what-we-do/no8-the-old-bookshop.php - the man said, 'Are you the fellow that was in last week and looked at the Terry Pratchett hardbacks.?'

'I am,' I replied.

'Look here,' he said, and as I did he went to see if there were any more in the back.

I'm starting to feel like I belong here;-)
#discworld

The tiny cat is still in purdah in the guest room, but the other cat knows she's there ...