Archive for the 'Recipes' Category
Great Bakes
Foodies like to rave about artisan bakers, which is all very well if you happen to have one round the corner – but what about the rest of us?
Last year in France, my brother-in-law informed me that the local bakery in the village near where we were staying (it happened to be in the Dordogne) [...]
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Tags: baking, banette, bread, France
Sunday Tea
It’s traditional in our family to have a pizza for Saturday tea, especially if Doctor Who is on. One of the other traditional teatime meals from my childhood is Welsh Rarebit. There are seventeen billion different versions of this particular dish, but the one I like is the one that is most like my childhood [...]
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Tags: baking, bread
Paranoid Bloggers Unite
Is it a coincidence I wonder that I blog a couple of times about baking a sourdough loaf a couple of weeks ago and this weekend the Guardian group newspapers decide to publish baking supplements? I wonder how that idea was presented to the editor? “Yeah, just woke up one day and it came to [...]
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I started my first sourdough on Friday evening, following the instructions that came with the Freebake dried sourdough culture. This involved mixing the culture with warm water, flour, and a little salt. You then have to leave the mixture to ferment/prove for 18-24 hours.
I was conservative this time around: using white bread flour to do [...]
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Tags: baking, bread, sourdough
Secret Ingredients
I’ve been able to make a decent loaf of bread or batch of rolls since I was about 10 years old. I’ve also got a fairly decent grasp of how to make a good pizza base. However, none of these things is ever perfected, and I’m always looking for new methods and techniques.
One minor obsession [...]
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Tags: baking, bread
Tired, tired, tired
Someone arrived here today searching on “how to survive your NQT year”, which is what I am trying to do. My method so far involves not doing much planning, so that all my weekend time isn’t spent working. I’m doing a bit – adapting last year’s – roughly working out what I’m going to do, [...]
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Tags: NQT, NQT year
There Went Summer
Weather forecast is for lots of rain tonight, so I was inspired to mow the lawn today, for what might be the last time before a damp autumn sets in. There wasn’t a lot of grass. The two dustbowl patches I tried to sow with seed in the spring are still bald.
Ironically, my front lawn [...]
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Tags: autumn, blackberries, harvest, hedgerow, Supermarkets
Monkfish Noodle Soup
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I improvised a fantastic noodle soup today, using some of the stuff I had in my kitchen cupboards and freezer.
I’ve noticed that the supermarkets are trying to gently encourage consumers to try different varieties of fish. They’ve always sold it at the so-called fresh fish counter, but now Tesco (for [...]
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Quiet Night In
Do you ever have a secret nose at what other people are buying in the supermarket? Of course you do. How could you not?
You get the Chips ‘n’ Lard types, those with the Tesco Super-bleached High-GI Stodge Loaf, the oven chips, the mini kievs (are they a starter or a main course?). And you get [...]
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Tags: Supermarkets
