Cheese Festival, Anyone?

The Great British Cheese Festival at Cardiff Castle.

I want to go to there.

And yes, that is a model of Cardiff Castle made out of cheese (via Light Reading).

The Bee's Knees

I may have been incredibly inactive here over the last few months, but the weather is (sort of) cooling down now that September is here, which means I'm back up to my old tricks in the kitchen. I recently checked Richard Bertinet's Dough out of the library, and the first thing I made was his ridiculously good lavender and honey wheat bread. The best part, in my opinion, is that Bertinet prefers to do everything by hand, so I got to play around with a bowl full of flour, rubbing in the yeast and dried lavender. Can anyone say baking win?
And the finished product (which, incidentally, was fantastic with the lovely soup that my sister made the following day):