On Christine's menu today was:

Alison's Chocolate Tart (Alison runs the Ballymaloe Cafe)
Brown Yeast Bread
Indian Paratha Bread

Tart takes ages so had to make it refrigerate it, roll it out, line the flan ring, refrigerate it again, blind bake it with beans in it, take it out, egg wash it, make the filling, pour it in, bake it again, then leave it set. Wasnt ready til 2pm and started the whole process at 8.30am! Absolutely worth it tho!

While all the tart thing was going on I crumled yeast with treacle & water and left it bubble while mixing flour & salt. Mix it all up and throw it into a tin, then leave it rise & bake.

Then on to the paratha. Got a little flustered with this I must admit. Pan got too hot, burnt a paratha, pan got burnt, had to try clean it, used tissue to do this, tissue stuck to pan, had to wash it, kinda burned myself and then had to start all over again while being told that it was very late and I should be finished by now - fantastic!

I got to take me tart home tho - good stuff!!