baking..

i made a pizza from scratch the other night, using hugh fearnley-whittingstall's recipe in the guardian t'other week..now, i normally trust hugh implicitly, having followed a good few of his delicious recipes in the past to great success (my favourite's probably the spicy bean stew w/ sausages..brilliant in winter)..

..however, my trust was somewhat shaken when the pizza dough recipe he suggested produced nothing more than a sticky, glutinous mess, which was only saved by the arrival of a friend of mark's, who has plenty of pizza making experience and just added a shedload of flour..i probably would have worked it out on my own eventually, but more likely i would have just thrown it in the bin and opted for beans on toast..i shouldn't be too harsh on hugh, though - after all, it wasn't really his dough recipe, just one of his mates'..another saving grace was his guide to making roasted tomato pizza sauce..yum....it all worked out ok in the end:


the following night i baked my first cookies..oatmeal..and they were freaking sweet:


i did make more than this, but they were so assome that they were almost all gone before i had the chance to record them for posterity..