Picture(s) of the day....

[myglaren]

I'm an expert procrastinator so may be a while before another attempt.
My late wife did all our baking, bread, cakes and biscuits, as well as cooking everything from raw ingredients. She wouldn't let anything pre-made other than fish 'n chips over the threshold.

[NewcastleFalcon]

POTD One for the Brick Buffs

In the end of month awards were there to be a "best photograph of a brick category" this would currently be the front runner....

Click to enlarge a couple of times
and the location of the find is the North bank of the River Wansbeck just before the East Coast Main Line crosses the Wansbeck at the Bothal Viaduct (between Morpeth and Pegswood).

Walbottle Coal & Firebrick Co., Newburn, Newcastle upon Tyne. The brickworks, situated by the Percy Pit at Newburn, would later be associated with the red-shale 'Newburn' brand building brick, but its early production was the staple firebrick, examples of which still litter the former location (now a nature reserve) to this day!

Neil

[Vic Evans]

What's this green stuff taste like chaps?

[Vic Evans]

I do most of the baking in this house. Loaves, hot buns (agnostic hot X buns), Cornish pasties etc etc.
The white bread recipe I use is Bread flour, 60% luke warm water, dried yeast, very small amount of salt. Normally I use 1,200gm flour, 720 ml/gm water, 1/2 ts salt, 10gm yeast.
mix, cover & let rise in oven @40deg C. when doubled in size knock back & divide 7/12 for mine & 5/12 for her loaf. roll out & put in tins, let rise again in warm oven until well risen. Get oven up to about 200deg & start baking. Reduce temp to 180 after say 5 mins & bake for total time of approx 40 mins. I check it's ready by a thermometer probe when 92 deg internal temp is done.
Works every time.

[MattBLancs]

I'm an expert procrastinator so may be a while...

I watched this (and a good number of interesting TED talks) with my wife,
and at the end she turned to me and said:

Spoiler: show

"that's you, that is" !!

[myglaren]

My attempt was rough and ready and a combination of two recipes, one on the yeast packet and the other an online one but American, with their strange measurements.
Salt, flour, olive oil and water, mixed up, bashed about a bit, allowed to rise, bashed a bit more then incinerated gently.
Better than Hovis by a wide margin but not epicurean by an equally wide margin.
Should have had a second proving.

[NewcastleFalcon]

divide 7/12 for mine & 5/12 for her loaf. roll out & put in tins, let rise again in warm oven until well risen.

...Works every time.

Jim's not shy about putting his loaves on POTD Vic, why not join him with your hers and his loaves.
Maybe stage an attempt an arty food-mag type shot, loaves half uncut/half sliced on the bread board, toast on an adjacent plate, knife and melted butter....jar of honey/marmalade...

I was rather pleased with the loaf I baked this morning Kneading bread at 4am is a great warmup for an 11K run on a cold and frosty morning

Neil

[myglaren]

I'm an expert procrastinator so may be a while...

I watched this (and a good number of interesting TED talks) with my wife,
and at the end she turned to me and said:

Spoiler: show

"that's you, that is" !!

Pretty accurate and quite watchable as he isn't too American.

[NewcastleFalcon]

POTD has just passed 770,000 views today and since Saturday has averaged 6,000 views per day. Certainly the most active thread on the FCF. Viewers need entertaining and blessed are the content providers for they do provide the entertainment.

So if you are a viewer, join the band of content providers and shove one of your photo's up on the thread.
Always nice when a debutant becomes a regular contributor...for example...

This was regular content provider Mickthemaverick's original picture as a debutant in 2019 on the thread. Click the pics and the links still work and the little pics enlarge!

Taken 5 minutes ago out of my kitchen window:



But this has to be the ultimate "Couldn't care less" shot!!

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

And just to make sure they remain accessible I'll embed them here, I couldn't do it then!!

Dinner time

I couldn't car less

[CitroJim]

Happy to see these today whilst out on my bike...

Work taking place to repair a massive and lethal pothole...

[CitroJim]

Looking east from the top of Bury Field Common early this morning...

During a long, breezy training run carrying my full ultra marathon pack containing mandatory survival kit. On the big day I'll also be wearing a GPS tracker!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nice atmospheric photo Jim I like a bit of silhouetting

Now if my eyes were set up like my point and shoots sensor I would see purple as this shade of blue.

Straight out of the tin

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Hmmm! a sign of things to come methinks!!

I wish I knew where I was!!

[Peter.N.]

You look as though you are on safari Jim - or in our back garden.

Peter