My wee bubs in the morning....

 

Poor wee Nudgicles.....

We thought he was coming right, but no.  I consulted Juantiz. She's like a vet is our Juanitz.  She said she thought he was OK.   As long as he's drinking and eating, he's OK.  Poor wee blight.  The thing is, taking the wee guy to the vet right now is complicated.  One at a time, standing outside (or sit in the car hoping you'll know when you are called in). I admire our vet making things so absolute.  She is precise and super clean (and lovely)  but it becomes tricky right now if we need to take him to the vet.  Thanks Juanitz, we will continue to monitor the wee blight. 

Overproofed sourdough, the result inside....

 It might look OK but to me, it's a complete failure.  Disregard the blurred photo 😶.

This is not a good sourdough bread result.  The crust isn't there, the crumb is too tight (although still a good bread to eat).  It certainly didn't taste like a yested bread but it wasn't a great loaf.  It's quite technical and I am going to report my failures more.  

Overproofed sourdough....

 I completely overproofed my bread last night.  I meant to pop it into the fridge before bed but completely forgot.  I've forgotten a few times before but instead of letting it carry on as normal, tonight I just baked it as is.  It was OK.  

So a big fat lesson to me.  If I've overproofed my dough,  just bake it Nat.  It isn't as good.  The crust isn't as perfect but at least it's still a nice loaf of bread which I thought was completely fucked.  Wait until the next day and it's a disaster.  Whew.  Still learning......

Dinner tonight.....

Another gorgeous night in the cave.  Actually, we were happy not to go down there given it was the perfect 26deg but the wind was really strong, verging on pretty unpleasant.

 

We did another pasta dish, fresh pasta as we’ve been making, with a ragu sauce, charred flatbreads and salad.  We love this pasta.  It def makes home made pasta easy and servable but most of all absolutely delicious.  

 

Yum.    

 

Little Nudge has had a touch of the flu

But he's all good now, sort of.  He slept it off for 36 hours and his dry nose became wet again.  He's a wee trouper.  He's not 100% hence me being able to take this photo of him and his cuzzie bros.  And his dad.  

 

Our dinner tonight

I took the day off running and we went into the big smoke (Chaumont).  The reason was for Andy to get a blood test.  He went 1 week prior at 0900am to only find a huge line of people not distancing themselves and I mean huge lines and then the diagnostic clinic itself was stuffed full. So, he came back home immediately. 

Today we went together and pitched up at 7.30am only to find the same huge fucking line of people not just out of the clinic but in the clinic also.  We did some research. France is using diagnostic clinics to check for COVID.  I mean WTF?????

 

Anyway, Andy did not go in.  We did a drive-by.  The same as he did the previous round.  

 

There is no way we are risking catching COVID for a simple blood test.  Geez, France!! What’s up?

 

We went to the gorgeous E.leclerc supermarket in Chaumont and sat outside the place until it opened at 08.00am.  

We bought Gilt head bream, sea bream, dorade.  Whatever you call it it’s a gorgeous fish

and it was so fresh.  As fresh as fish gets.  

We were going to eat outside, but then a storm hit so we sent everything to the cave.  We cooked the fish on the big pan Philippe gave us and Andy had pre-seasoned.   It was a delicous dinner and really cool, sitting in the cave with the storm outside.