The sidewalk and the street, the concrete and the clay

[venta]

Last night's hurried bung-it-in-the-oven dinner was intended to be baked haddock with a herby crust. Breadcrumbs, mix in chopped herbs and olive oil, slap on top of fish, shove in oven. Done.

Except... well. The sliced bread had gone all pernicious. It looked fine, but had stealthily gone colourfully and fluffily off behind all the opaque bits of the plastic bag. No breadcrumbs :(

Except, lurking in the bread bin, overlooked, was the tiny, nobbly end of Saturday's baguette. Baguettes go a bit hard and dry when you've had them more than 35 minutes, so Saturday's French bready-product was rock solid.

I normally make breadcrumbs from fresh bread, rubbing slices between my hands. Occasionally, if I'm feeling very together, I put the slices out to go a little stale first. But four day old baguette? Not a chance.

On a whim, I tried grating it with a coarse grater. Bingo! A suitable-sized pile of breadcrumbs in no time. Probably even easier than normal.

Maybe everyone else already makes breadcrumbs like this. I just thought I'd mention it :)

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

My old blender used to have a another bit (instead of the jug) which was intended to be a small grinder and was brilliant for doing breadcrumbs. My current blender fits on top of a Kenwood, and is a bit rubbish for making breadcrumbs. It does the job, but not terribly satisfactorily.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was thinking the coffee grinder fitting for my blender would probably do well.
(it isn't the Kevin Rowland version, is it?)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't know who Kevin Rowland is :) My blender is a standard Kenwood attachment. I don't know if they do a coffee grinder to fit my model (Kenwood do make a food processor attachment, but it only fits snazzier and more upmarket models than mine).

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Singer with Dexys Midnight Runners (now just Dexys, I gather; I don't know if they follow the rule), released a very peculiar solo album of covers in 1999, of which that was a highlight. Famously disturbing album cover.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah, you weren't asking about the version of the blender. I was a bit puzzled :)

NP: Kevin Rowland - Concrete And Clay

No, I've never heard that before. I just know the Unit4+2 version.

I do recognise the album cover, though. Mostly from its repeated appearance on "terrible album cover" lists :)

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

In my era, it was Randy Edelman. He also did Uptown Uptempo Woman. As in "You're an uptown, uptempo woman, I'm a downtown, downbeat guy."

As for crumbs, baguettes and fishy stuff, I have nowt to say.

[dave [earth.li] (from livejournal.com)]

When you say 'On top of a kenwood', would One of these (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenwood-AT320A-Chopper-Attachment-Additional/dp/B000C3MOCM/ref=sr_1_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1340957272&sr=1-1) fit on the same kenwood? It's not cheap but smaller than another whole device, and comes with sealable jars.