Fresh from the oven –buns,curry buns

Last month I schlepped in right at the last minute with my Fresh from the oven challenge,this month I did better – hey I was there a whole week before the deadline baking away. How organised and complaint of me. Erm,well,maybe. Those who know me well know that doing what I’m told when I’m told is something I have mastered the art of mostly avoiding. So this month instead of taking the deadline to the wire I thought I’d ignore some of the very specific instructions and freeform the recipe a bit even though it wasn’t something [...]

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September 27th,2009 | Tags:,, | Category:baking,bread,bread making,indian,lamb,leftovers,recipe ideas,spicy,techniques | 13 comments

Fresh from the oven:English muffins

This is my first ‘Fresh from the oven’ bread baking challenge. I missed out on the first two because,well because,I was just too slow off the mark signing up. Anyway I’ve joined up now and I’m hoping its going to a be a fun way to do some different breads and also chat with other food bloggers and improve my breadmaking.

As soon as I’d signed up and logged on I took a look at the challenge and thought ‘hmmmm interesting,not tried that before,best do some reading round the matter’. This is a technique I term [...]

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August 28th,2009 | Tags:,,, | Category:blogging,bread,bread making,country/region,english,recipe ideas,techniques | 6 comments

Feeding time at the sourdough zoo

A little while back I set a sourdough starter running. The first ten days to two weeks you are just supposed to leave the mix of flour water and grapes to get on with doing its own thing although the urge to peek,tweet and blog about progress got the better of me. In the process I experienced the joys of seeing the starter come to life and also its unique and pungent smell!

After 10 days it was time then time to start the daily feeding routine. This involves feeding the starter twice daily with flour and water. [...]

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June 7th,2009 | Tags:,, | Category:bread,recipe ideas | 6 comments

Coming together

I love it when things just seem to come together in the right way and its one of the things that I’m starting to love about blogging and tweeting. You swirl around the blogosphere,you play about on Twitter and suddenly a whole bunch of influences collide to make you spot a new dish that resonates for you or triggers fond memories of something you haven’t had in simply too long.

And so it was earlier this week that the influences of Browners’National British Sandwich fun,Fran39′s watercress post and the #livelocal challenge came together to make me [...]

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May 27th,2009 | Tags:,,,,,,,, | Category:recipe ideas,sandwich | 4 comments

Under the bonnet:Sourdough progress

On Sunday Monday I finally decided to make a sourdough starter. It takes FOUR weeks of patient waiting and ‘feeding’before you get to make a loaf.

Blimey. I’m not a patient person so each time I pass I have to try very hard to resist taking a peek to see what’s happening under the lid. Sometimes I just manage to leave it alone others I succumb. So I thought I’d share these peeks with you so you too can live the joys and worries of making sourdough. I’ll keep updating this post so come back if you want to [...]

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May 6th,2009 | Tags:,,,, | Category:bread,recipe ideas | 11 comments

For starters:thats sourdough starters

I love sourdough bread in all its varieties and I’ve always quite fancied making it myself. Looking around some of my favourite food blogs recently I saw that sourdough is of those things people are trying out –maybe its the credit crunch that makes us all want to bake bread,I don’t know,but it certainly seems to be on the rise (!).

A bit of looking about,a bit of tweeting and it seemed that the king (and queen) of sourdough recipes comes from Sam and Sam Clarks ‘Moro’cookbook. It doesn’t seem hard (or maybe it is [...]

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May 4th,2009 | Tags:,, | Category:bread,recipe ideas | 7 comments

Buttered toast

So naughty but so lovely,lightly toasted bread with lashings of butter,what a way to start the day

April 17th,2009 | Tags:,,, | Category:bread,recipe ideas | One comment
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