Bristles in your buns?...

Whiskers in your waffles?...

Hairs in your hoagies?...

What’s to be done?...Bexley has the answers…


What-ho, food-fans!


Well now…to baking…

Regular Blog-followers will recall that I am absolutely devoted to The Great British Bake Off (see my posting for way back in September 2010)… Quite simply, it’s the greatest television programme in the world. Ever!

You will also recall how I was worried that, once the London 2012 Games and Paralympics were done and dusted, I’d be bereft of any stimulation…

What on earth will I watch on TV?...

How will I occupy my little grey cells?...

What on earth will fill that dark, howling void?...

Thank goodness, then, for the re-appearance of TGBBO (as we aficionados like to call it) and good old Mary Berry, and – my own particular favourite – the dapper, debonair Mr Paul Hollywood…Marvellous!



And yet, and yet…there’s something gnawing at me, a latent anxiety and sense of disquiet…

What is it?...Shall I tell you, dear readers?...
Well, it’s hairs and food – or, more specifically, beard hair and its proximity to baked goods…Eughhhh!

Now, much as I admire the work of Antony Worrall Thompson, and the Hairy Bikers, I do worry about Worrall’s whiskers and the Bikers’ bristles…

And then my worries continued to grow…what if there were even more bearded chefs around?...Hence, I set my Research Team the following task: - "Are there any more that I should worry about?"...

Luckily, they didn’t find many others – (only Captain Birdseye and Rick Stein’s dog) – so that was a relief!

What’s also a relief, is the discovery that my chums in Bexley’s Environmental Services have teamed up with the Food Standards Agency to reveal this: Hygiene ratings for food businesses in Bexley now available online

Marvellous, informative, and revealing…And it means that I can now sleep soundly in the twofold knowledge that The Great British Bake Off is back with us, AND that food standards in Bexley are being closely monitored. What a relief!

Now, if I could only persuade Mr Hollywood to go clean shaven…



TTFN!

Bexley, Baking, Books, Berry and Buns…

Bexley, Baking, Books, Berry and Buns…

What-ho! Welcome my old Bexley baking bibliophiles and crust-loving companions…
Close friends of the Blogbrarian will doubtless be aware that he is something of a `dab hand` at the art of the patisserie, whose cup-cakes have been `mentioned in despatches`, whose `Bedfordshire Clangers` are unlike any others, and whose macaroons have made strong men swoon…
So, like me, have you been left bereft now that the wonderful BBC series The Great British Bake Off has ended? Well, never fear, for some books are here that, I am certain, will rekindle your love affair with the bun and the bap, the pie and the pastry, the flan and the fairy cake…
Bake it by the book!

And how splendid to see Mary Berry in person on TV and in such rude health…Mary has been tempting book borrowers for many years with a range of tantalising titles, so here’s the chance to put her recipes to the taste test…

What else can Bexley Libraries tempt your taste buds with? A little morsel of fictional chocolat perhaps?
Or a more robust northern recipe, with pies & prejudice?
But I`m confident that Bexley readers will be able to suggest some other great books; you are, after all, such a well read and well bread bunch…

Well, that’s me done, my creative juices are spent, my inspiration has run dry…what I need now is a biscuit, a nice cup of tea and a sit down.

All that remains is to invite you, dear readers, to contribute any bookish or baking-related feedback using the comments box below.

TTFN