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Madeira cake from scratch

The ingredients assembled: Caster sugar, caraway seeds, plain flour, lemon, self-raising flour, unsalted butter, eggs


Preparation of the lemon: juice and zest


The butter as removed from the pack


After a good bit of softening with the spoon, the sugar is added


Once the sugar and lemon zest is fully creamed in, the first egg is added with some flour


All three eggs have been added


All the flour has been added


Close-up showing the caraway seeds, which were added with the lemon juice


In the baking tin, the top smoothed with a spoon


After one hour or so at 150 degrees, fan-assisted


Close up


Cut end


The recipe is from Nigella Lawson, How to be a domestic goddess

Roast leg of pork

Here it is as purchased

Rubbed with salt and with a few carroway seeds and cloves added

About to be covered in foil and go into the oven. In the roasting tin is a sliced onion and some water

After 90 minutes cooking under foil

(No picture for it after a further thirty minutes not under foil, sorry)
The pan juices get some white wine and flour to make gravy

On the plate with leeks and carrots, a glass of rosé accompanies

(The gravy was pretty much ruined by me using too much salt)

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My own one:

A spider's meal

Barbecued black bream

Here it is raw. The slits are stuffed with tarragon. The whole thing has been rubbed with salt. There's more tarragon in the gut cavity, as well as two squeezed-out lemon halves that were left from an accompanying salad.


And in close-up

Here it is on the barbecue.

First side is cooked and has had lime juice squirted on it.

That cooked side in close-up

It tasted good.