Smoked Mackerel Pate on Toast

Was it really three days ago that I last blogged? In some ways it seems ages ago. In others it seems like the blink of an eye. Time passes in strange ways when you are busy.

Yesterday’s trip to Peterborough seemed to take twice as long as usual. That is easier to explain – it took approximately three hours, which is about twice as long as usual.

First there was the hold up to cross the Trent. As soon as I got into it I remembered there had been notices up about a cycling event. Probably a triathlon as they seem to be more popular these days. The queue was long, so we turned off and went via Newark. That added around 10 miles, and would have been Ok if it hadn’t been for the hold up at a roundabout while a motorcyclist and a van driver exchanged details and discussed their accident. Then, just as I was saying to Julia that I hoped we wouldn’t be held up again . . .

Welsh Rarebit on sourdough toast

According to the Internet there was a two vehicle crash near Grantham. So we took a detour through the town to go round it. Grantham was jammed up as it already had roadworks and the extra cars going through brought it to a standstill. Nobody seems to have been hurt, which is good.

After that it was fairly easy. To be honest, by the time we reached Grantham I would have been happy to go home, but we had a carful of stuff and didn’t want to have to unload it all again.

And that was my Sunday. Load car. Queue. Unload car.

We finally worked out how to use the new grill and made cheese on toast when we arrived as a (very) late lunch. We still don’t have the new toaster calibrated. I used it for the initial toasting, producing what was essentially warm bread. It’s on 3.5 now. On 4 it produces dry charred toast. I may nudge it up another quarter, or I may admit defeat. The margin between warm bread and burnt seems very small. I then put the cheese on and used the grill for the last bit.  It’s more powerful than our current grill and I just managed to catch it before it reached incenertion point.

There’s more to moving house than meets the eye.

Toasted Teacakes

This is my entire stock of toast photos.