{"id":3124,"date":"2022-02-19T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2022-02-19T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T09:20:02","slug":"candlelit-dinner-with-storm-eunice-in-the-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2022\/02\/19\/candlelit-dinner-with-storm-eunice-in-the-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlelit dinner with storm Eunice in the background."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst storms in decades is enjoying itself all over British Isles this weekend, the schools were closed today and people were generally advised to stay at home. I hate this sort of weather, but I made the most of it by baking before lunch, good timing too, as after lunch there was a massive power cut that lasted until 7pm. I managed to bake some delicious bread though, which we had for lunch, against our dietary recommendations. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_125432928.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_125432928.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3127\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_125432928.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?attachment_id=3127\" class=\"wp-image-3127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_125432928.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_125432928-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recipe was from Good Food mag, from Nadia Hussein, I purchased chipotle chili flakes from souschef.co.uk especially for this loaf and also some halloumi cheese, with which I was pleasantly surprised. I used 500 g of strong bread flour and did 2 small loaves, as Izzie is not a major chili fan just yet. 7 g of dry yeast, a tsp each of salt and caster sugar, 25 g of very soft butter, kitchen aid did the work and it proved for 2 hours, while lots of little chores got done, including a work out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once more than doubled in size I divided the dough in two, added 125 g of grated halloumi to both and chili flakes to one, dried oregano to the other. Formed to sexy loaves and left to prove again for over an hour. Once ready, I baked them in 220 degrees for a bit more than 20 minutes. The loaf with chili is sensational, I wish I could eat more bread, but still counting calories these days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dinner this evening  was cooked in semi darkness, with the help of a torch and two small candles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_174928059.MP_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_174928059.MP_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_174928059.MP_.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2022\/02\/PXL_20220218_174928059.MP_-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I made us a risotto from bediet&#8217;s list, which turned out really nicely, even Izzie had a bowl. I made it my way, of course, not bediet&#8217;s way, featuring tomato paste as a main ingredient- my base was made of chopped shallot, courgette, a generous handful of skinned cherry tomatoes, all nicely cooked down and then 150 g of arborio in. No white wine this time, only chicken stock. Cooked till I was pleased with the texture, then finished off with a little butter and some parmesan- which never gets a mention in bediet&#8217;s recipe suggestions, I can&#8217;t do a good risotto without it.  Also on top a few pieces of torn buffalo mozzarella ( allowed) and some fresh basil. Really, really nice. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst storms in decades is enjoying itself all over British Isles this weekend, the schools were closed today and people were generally advised to stay at home. I hate this sort of weather, but I made the most of it by baking before lunch, good timing too, as after lunch there was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2022\/02\/19\/candlelit-dinner-with-storm-eunice-in-the-background\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Candlelit dinner with storm Eunice in the background.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-food","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}