November 2014 posts

Monday, 24 November 2014
Wordless B&W Not-Wednesday: Vintage Wine
summary: Pauillac 'Chateau Grand Puy Lacoste' Saint Girons 1986 (grand cru); not for cats!; the grapes for this wine were just beginning to ripen in the vineyard on the day we met; experiments in sepia, black and white and colour; Photos taken on FujiFilm S3100 digital camera. Using Irfanview, to create the black and white, I desaturated by 100% to remove the colour, then upped the contrast and added -1R, 1G and 3B. To create the sepia version, I altered the colour again by adding 20R, 5G and -10B)

Monday, 17 November 2014
Mawwhat?? Ersatz Dhakai Bakharkhani (BBB November 2014)
summary: recipe for Dhakai Bakharkhani; a Bread Baking Babes project;

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Almost-Wordless Wednesday: but, it was going to be perfect!!
summary: Smells good. Nice and light weight. It looks really good, doesn't it? Well, turn it over.... Maybe if we cut off the burned part, we can rescue it;

Sunday, 2 November 2014
What we did with this year's Hallowe'en pumpkins
summary: Hallowe'en pumpkin carving; Golden Nugget squashes are difficult to carve but after they are baked, they taste fabulous; Sorauren Park Pumpkin festival;