Hi everyone!
Sorry for the delay in writing this, but I have been very busy.
Mr Langton is kindly going to let me know of any interesting food related programmes on TV each week. The Great British Menu is on every evening this week, BBC2 7.30, and you can always catch up on i player.
I like the Hairy Bikers which is on Tuesday Evenings. I particularly enjoyed the one where they toured Austria, watching or helping out with the preparation of many of Austria's famous pastries etc.
The Benedictine monks they visited in a beautiful monastery ate better than most of us, thanks to the skills of a little rotund cook who spoke no English but chuckled away while the bikers tried to make some pastries for the monks' breakfast!
I had another slight accident in food tech last week. I dropped a bottle of expensive vinaigre du miel (honey vinegar) which I bought in France last year. It rolled off the trolley and smashed to pieces during a Yr 7 workshop.
We soaked up all the vinegar with paper towels and carefully picked up the glass and binned it; we even steam mopped the floor with great excitement at yet another gadget being put to good use,  but the lingering smell in the bin and on the floor made visitors to food tech think we had opened a fish and chip shop!
I bought the vinegar in a shop on the site of a French 'place of interest' called 'the Abbey of living Bees'!
I mean, what are bees if they are not alive?!!! Visitors to the place were taken on a tour of bee hives. If bees are dead, there wouldn't be any honey would there?!!
The shop was wonderful though. They sold 4 different types of honey, because even though they are the same bees producing honey all year round, the honey differs according to the season. The pollen that they collect as they go foraging around the area is from different plants and flowers that are in season either in the Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.  Each of the 4 honeys were available to taste and each had a totally different flavour!  I bought some for my Dad who swears by the stuff and eats it every day on toast.
In the shop we also sampled delicious honey cake, made each day by the owner of the site. I speak reasonable french so I asked him for the recipe.  He wrote it down - the first ingredient was 20 kg flour!!
Then 10 jars of honey etc.!!  I realized that he must make about 60 cakes each morning so I had to divide his 'recette' by 60 to get a more realistic amount for one cake of my own!
Competition this week is to find Dr Ramillo and find out the Portuguse word for 'taste'/'flavour'. Come to me with the answer and win a chocolate bar.
Another prize is for the taking if you can tell me what my favourite animal is. The clues are all around the food tech room/building.
Disappointingly only a few year 7's entered the spelling competition but the 2 winners did extrememely well and scored high marks. They won Easter eggs.   Other boys only managed 7 out of 30!!  Obviously hadn't learned the spellings that I gave them in advance.  Hope they do better at remembering things in their exams next week!

I am just sorting out a few recipes to print on the blog each week; I hope you will try some of them when you have time.
I am also going to run a House Masterchef competition as I think I have already mentioned.
~Even a staff round!   
Keep blogging on to my blog, or else I'm just wasting my time doing it!!
JEP