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Today, to go with the spaghetti and meatballs I'm making, I'm trying the Herbed Foccacia Sheet from The Bread Bible. It's a rather interesting recipe--the water percentage is 113%! (In bread recipes, the flour is set to 100% and all the others are relative. So this means more water than flour.) The recipe did say it needed to be beaten for 20 mins with the paddle (it's so soupy it has to be beaten with the paddle, not the hook!) before it would form a ball. Mine didn't. I kept beating. Nope. Turned it up a little, more beating... finally! The recipe said #4 on a KitchenAid, and my Kenwood (which I used for the first time today) sounded really noisy on #2, and quite fast. Plus, the KA goes from 0-10, the Kenwood from 0-7. Anyway, now I know that "medium (#4 on a KitchenAid)" is really #3 on a Kenwood.

We'll see if it rises and bakes properly. :) I discovered that a half size sheet pan, or rather the closest equivalent I could find (40x30cm baking tray) just fits in my oven. I miss American size ovens... some of them will even fit a full size sheet pan! (16"x24", or 40x60cm.) I have just realised, though, that this pan MIGHT work as a substitute for an American jelly-roll (swiss-roll) pan, which is normally either 11"x17" or 13"x18" (sometimes you also see 10"x15", it's very confusing). Neither would fit, but 12"x16" is close enough and does. Question is the sides; not sure they're quite as high. British Swiss-roll tins are 8"x12", so it's a pain when you have an American recipe. Sometimes you can just halve it, but not always.

Barnet Primary Care Trust:
Quality of Services: Weak
Use of Resources: Fair

Barnet & Chase Farm Hospitals Trust:
QoS: Weak
UoR: Weak

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust:
QoS: Fair
UoR: Weak

Oh, and they're still buggering around with the Barnet & Chase Farm re-organisation plans. One idea isn't bad, though: Barnet should be linked with the Royal Free Hampstead instead of Chase Farm. It would probably provide better services for Barnet residents, since these are the two hospitals we use (for people at the southern end of the borough, the RFH is much closer than Barnet).

Local rag also report that Barnet hospital want to cut the breast-feeding coordinator. Good news for me, eh? :(

ETA: Barnet and Chase Farm was one of only 24 trusts (out of 570) to score "weak" in both categories! No wonder my care has been so shambolic...