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Gluten-free Oat Loaf Bread with Seeds and Walnuts

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I have been working on an oat loaf for a while. I shall be adding the recipe shortly.

I made many experiments and variations of this bread, playing back and forth with moisture and texture. Adding an egg white here, subtracting some yoghurt there, increasing and decreasing the oats, chopping, blending, or combining them. I wanted to reliably bake a savoury bread that didn’t go mudbrick or soggy on me. The thing that finally made the loaf come together was adding a tablespoon of ground flaxseeds. That’s one tip I shall keep in mind for future projects.

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Gingersnap Cookies

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I have been on the lookout for a good recipe for ginger snaps, and found it at Joy of Cooking. Less butter, more taste.

I did double up on the ginger, and the cloves, used salted butter, and added some sunflower seeds, because I like savoury. I also like my cookies very chewy, so I take them out of the oven as soon as they begin to firm up at the edges.

Revisions

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I am currently revising content on my blog and mini-sites. Some material has been taken down, but will be re-introduced shortly.

The Long Return

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I have not had the time to tend my website for a long while. During this winter and spring I have been immersed in the task of completing my MA thesis. The title is “Romantic Attitudes and Aesthetic Strategies in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, The Counsellor and The Road“. It is an account and analysis of McCarthy’s expression of the Romantic attitudes to death, life and materialism and the application and effect of bildung and Romantic irony and allegory in his recent works.

I have received an A for my efforts, so I am singularly pleased. That’s one – very significant – item I can check off on my list. Having, finally, completed my education is not only a reward in itself, but a confirmation and validation of my ability and the persistence with which I have pursued it, despite the challenge, I have had to face during my student years, in the form of chronic pain.

Of course, with this result, invariably I must ask myself – PhD?