Baking

Hi everyone!

Just a quick post before I fly away to beautiful India :)

I just wanted to share this foolproof recipe for a quick and easy pie crust, ready to use straight away!

Ingredients:
310g flour (I use self-raising)
1/2 tsp salt
(a few tbsp of sugar if you're making a sweet pie)
125g soft butter, cut in small cubes
1 egg
1 to 1 1/2 tbsp milk or water (chilled)

Mix the dry ingredients first in a large mixing bowl. Add the butter all in one go (it has to be at room temperature, if straight from the fridge, soften it in the microwave for about 45 seconds on the lowest setting), then mix the two with your fingertips. Rub the butter in the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs.

Add the egg to the flour-butter mixture until it is well combined. Add 1 tbsp of milk or water to bind the dough together. If needed, add another 1/2 tbsp of milk or water to retrieve the last crumbs at the bottom of your mixing bowl. Shape the dough into a ball.

Lightly flour your clean and dry workstation. Flatten your dough ball in between your palms to form a disc; put your dough on the workstation, then use a floured rolling pin to finish shaping your dough into the perfect circle of the required diameter, turning the dough over regularly.

That's you done, and it works every time!

Hope you're all having a great evening, and I shall write soon, with news of marvellous Mumbai :)

Lovingly yours :)

Hi again

Wooh, lots of posts in a short space of time.

Don't worry about its dark undertones, it just came to me earlier on today, while we were discussing zombies in movies of all things!

My muse is deserting me nowadays, but I hope I'll catch up to her soon.

Frigid nights have descended upon us, so may it be additional motivation to stay home and cosy up to my computer and get writing!!!

Faithfully.

Darkness comes

The Sun does not give out warmth any longer.

Its light is blinding, my head should be pounding, but I am impervious to all of it. My body remains stationary, my hands and feet are numb.

Suddenly, clouds cover the Sun. The light goes out, the sky darkens. The land goes still, and so am I.

Earth falls on my bed, falls until I cannot see anything anymore. For ever.

For you, all my thanks

I go along the walk of life on my own.
One day you came, and with a smile and a kind word, you kept me company.
Even if it can only be for a short while, I am glad we are walking it side-by-side.