July 2010

Mixed Sweet (Bell) Pepper Sauce

July 30, 2010

This is my oldest daughter’s favourite. I make a big batch and then have it in the fridge for a few days and after school she will toast some of my semi-sourdough, warm some of the pepper sauce to top the bread with. If I happen to have some around in the fridge I have [...]

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Finally Success with Dan’s White Sourdough

July 22, 2010

Dan Lepard’s recipe in his Handmade Loaf book page 28, is a very wet mixture which will give more holes in your sourdough, a good thing, but for traditional breadmakers like me it’s a nightmare working with such wet dough. My previous attempts have all pretty much ended up with tasty but flat loaves, good [...]

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Happy 12th Birthday!

July 21, 2010

I use to feel sorry for parents with children who’s birthdays were close together…and now I’m one of those. Usually by now middle child’s birthday occurs during the school summer holidays but for some reason it wasn’t so this year. She just had some friends over after school for birthday cake and will have her [...]

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Semi Sourdough White Bread – My Family’s Favourite

July 20, 2010

This has become a regular loaf in our household, middle child loves it, and Bikerboy asks for it. If I haven’t baked any bread, I get a puzzle look from him to say, “why?”. Today oldest child rang from the field across our house where she was chatting with her friends, to ask if they [...]

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Lemon & Thyme Chicken

July 19, 2010

I have made this recently for friend’s coming over for lunch, it’s so simple to put together, packs so much flavour but no effort whatsoever. I have thyme growing in pots on the patio and I always have a lemon, there would be something amiss in my kitchen if I didn’t have a lemon. [...]

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Happy 3rd Birthday

July 18, 2010

Today 2 year old turns 3, that magical number when they are totally aware of everything that’s going on, what a birthday means, what presents are, and what kind of birthday cake they want, “PINK” was the brief given, the first pink cake I’ve made. Which I must say I shall post the recipe because [...]

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