James The Baker

I decided that I should add to my already burgeoning variety of talents and learn how to make bread. This is the top half of the bread: And this is the bottom half: I guess I will be shopping for a new baking tray tomorrow. According to Jamie Oliver, making bread is a lot of fun.  For my blog readers perhaps. It doesn’t actually taste that bad, away from the burnt areas.

Breadless

I’ve heard a bit about people feeling better after giving up bread recently, and I have noticed that I always feel bloated on bread-eating days, so I decided that as an experiment, I would try to give it up, at least for a week, to see if there was any discernable difference in how I feel. On an average bread day, I used to have 4-8 slices, though at the weekend probably only 2. Or 0 if I went clubbing. Anyway, a week into it and I have to say it hasn’t been easy – I’ve been so used to … Continued