June 2010

Dan Lepard White Sourdough using No-knead Method

June 30, 2010
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Using here Dan Lepard’s white sourdough recipe from his Handmade Loaf book which I find quite wet.  Something I’ve had to get use to.  I who was comfortable making dried yeast doughs has had to forget everything I know about making bread when I embarked on my journey of sourdough 4 months ago.  Dan’s white [...]

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Dan Lepard White Sourdough Modified using no-knead method step-by-step

June 30, 2010
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I’ve been baking a lot of bread lately.  Baking dried yeast breads is addictive once you start to produce a decent loaf, but there’s something about baking a good sourdough that becomes obsessive.  I’ve lost count of the amount of white sourdoughs I’ve baked, with an adjustment here and there, seeing how reducing the liquid [...]

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HSBC and Me

June 14, 2010
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This is not the sort of thing I normally post about but I feel ever so smug about it I can’t help myself.  Having banked with HSBC for years I have the same complaints I often read about in the press other costumers have with their banks, terrible branch service, the lack of personal contact [...]

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Hampton Court Palace, Our Annual Picnic and Coronation Chicken

June 13, 2010
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This week was our annual picnic and concert Bikerboy and I have been attending since we’ve been together; Hampton Court Palace Festival.  It’s like all things we do together often, it becomes a ritual.  Now and again we’ve attended the event with extra company be it parents, friends or the girls but this year we [...]

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Very Quick Coronation Chicken

June 13, 2010
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I make my Coronation Chicken dairy-free but I remember the original recipe that I took this idea from had some crème fraîche (or substitute sour cream) which will make it even creamier.  This is a very quick version but it doesn’t mean it’s somehow inferior to one that you spent time making your own spice [...]

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Aubergine (Eggplant) Rolls In Tomato Sauce

June 5, 2010
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It’s frightening blogging about this dish because the very first time I had it it was made by my Sicilian friend Antonina when she was pregnant with her first child…he’s about to go to university this autumn…where has the time gone? Isn’t it funny how you associate a dish with a time and place in [...]

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