Red Onion, Tomato and Fig Balsamic Chutney
It’s 11pm, and I’ve been trying to install imaging software on my laptop for hours now. It’s left me extremely grumpy and tired of staring at the screen, but I want to post something tonight before be,...
View ArticleThe Daring Bakers Challenge December 2011: Sourdough Bread
Our Daring Bakers Host for December 2011 was Jessica of My Recipe Project and she showed us how fun it is to create Sour Dough bread in our own kitchens! She provided us with Sour Dough recipes from...
View ArticleThe Year of Bread Part One: Bagels
Soooo Year of the Bento didn’t really work out – I had a few months of honeymoon time where I was really excited about it, then I had a week off work and never got back into the habit. It’s good to try...
View ArticleThe Year of Bread Part Two: Sourdough Bread Pretzels
Now, when I hear ‘pretzels’, I think of the salty, savoury, crackery kind of snacks that I could easily eat by the double handful. Bread pretzels are also, as it turns out, pretty awesome. I’ve made...
View ArticleThe Year of Bread Part Six: Tiny Rosemary and Olive Bread
Since coming round to olives, I’ve started keeping a jar of them in the fridge. Not fancy ones, just pitted black olives in brine – ‘ingredient’ olives, if you will. One of the supermarkets near me has...
View ArticleQuick Comparison – Metal v Plastic
This is more suited to Facebook, but until I can upload a gif… This is one batch of bread dough, split exactly in half (I weighed it out) and both risen in my usual way, in a bowl sealed with...
View ArticleThe Year of Bread Part Twenty: Guinness and Maca Powder Bread
I’m writing this post on my phone, and it seems utterly determined that it will disgrace me by correcting the word bread to breast. If that does happen, at least you’ve been pre-warned. This is more a...
View ArticleSainsbury’s Golden Multiseed Bread Mix
This post was made possible by Sainsbury’s, who sent me a pack of their Golden Multiseed Bread Mix to try. The opinions in the post are, as ever, mine, and the review is honest. They say you should...
View ArticleLeftovers Povitica (or, Thanksgiving Loaf and Crazy Cupboard Loaf)
This was another post made possible by Sainsbury’s. They’re such enablers. They asked me to come up with and blog these recipes in exchange for vouchers. I’d been considering making another batch of...
View ArticleQuick(ish) No-Knead Bread
This is my current favourite loaf, bar none. It’s easy to make – though the ‘quick’ part of the title definitely needs to be taken in context – but the end result is bread that’s full of flavour and...
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