Cold Oil French Fries (Chips) Absorb Less Oil

February 4, 2012
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I saw this method of chip making (French fries if you’re American) this week on  America’s Test Kitchen  and couldn’t wait to try it because it just seemed so easy and anything that’s easy if you have kids is a done deal for me.  The other reason and most convincing was the topsy-turvy notion that starting [...]

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Tybalt & Paragon Wheat Varieties – Stoneground White Flours

January 31, 2012
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I bought both of these flours from Anne at Felin Ganol Watermill in Wales, just like I did with the Amaretto flour here.  It’s very unusual to buy flour by single wheat variety, most mills will mix a combination of different wheats to produce their bread flours.  I feel I’m in a privilege position with [...]

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Pierre Koffmann’s at the Berkeley Hotel – Bad Bread Good Souffle

January 29, 2012
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Last night was our dinner date, neither of us could remember the last time we went out on our own, it had been so long.  Father-in-law was having the 4 year old overnight and to make the most of it I thought I should trade in my usual jogging pants, t-shirt, hair in bunch for [...]

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Proving Sourdough In Winter – Max’s Loaf

January 28, 2012
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I’ve been trying to help Max resolve his issues with sourdough for a little while.  If you have ever tried to help anyone with their bread problems across the net you’ll understand how difficult it can be.  There’s a process of eliminations of what could be the cause of things going wrong.  The biggest problem [...]

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Spelt, Carrot, Pineapple, Allspice Cake

January 23, 2012
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I will return to making this cake again and add more photos. Yesterday I wanted to make a cake for Bikerboy’s birthday weekend and one of his favourite cakes is Carrot Cake but he also loves pineapple which reminded me there are recipes somewhere in my books for Passion Cake containing pineapple, some of the [...]

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Aduki / Azuki Bean Salad

January 23, 2012
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I made this salad for my lunch today.  I was reminded yesterday reading Carl’s post on his vegetarian haggis how good aduki beans are, they’re the puy lentil of the bean world for me.  They’re flavoursome, the taste reminds me of black-eye beans/peas and being so small they give you a lovely texture and if [...]

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Something Missing in the Fabulous Baker Brothers Chocolate Cake Recipe

January 22, 2012
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I made this cake after seeing it on the Channel 4 programme The Fabulous Baker Brothers presented by Tom and Henry, the recipe is here.  It seemed a straight forward flourless chocolate cake, there are quite a few recipes out there including this one on my blog here.  What intrigued me was the end result of [...]

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In Search Of Yeast Cake For Allergy Kid

January 17, 2012
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I want to make allergy kid a cake.  I’ve made allergy kid cakes in the past and if you have various allergies this is a good blog, Eggless Baking, but the recipes for cake which don’t have egg will have things like nuts or soya.  The recipes that don’t have any ingredient on her allergy-intolerant [...]

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Pita Bread

January 17, 2012
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I make pita breads regularly, usually at the request of oldest daughter, make a large enough batch to put some in the freezer and keep her happy for a while.  Making pita breads or bagels puts the baker into a production line, once you’ve mastered the recipe you’ll fall into a rhythm between pre-shape, rolling [...]

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Butter – We Have Great Butter

January 14, 2012
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When I refer to we, I’m talking United Kingdom and Ireland.  These Isles with gloomy dark winters and wet summers may not be beach holiday destinations but they are great for pasturelands with grazing cows…there is a benefit for putting up with lousy weather; great dairy.  If you have only lived in these parts you [...]

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Stoneground Amaretto Semolina Wheat Sourdough

January 11, 2012
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I made this loaf using some of Felin Ganol’s amaretto semolina for the first time yesterday.  I was expecting a slightly textured crumb, perhaps similar to the Khorasan loaf  but instead was pleased to find a soft mouth-feel crumb as you do with wholemeal, only this is lighter. To give you some idea of the [...]

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Why Start A Food Blog? And Can You Make Money Out Of It? Part II

January 8, 2012
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This post is following on from Part I here. Blog Envy & The Godivala Syndrome If you want to start one, do it, it’s free, make it your own but be prepared to put the hours in if you want it to have a certain regularity, it really does not feed itself. I’ve had moments [...]

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Why Start A Food Blog? And Can You Make Money Out Of It? Part I

January 5, 2012
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Why?  Because you want to. And the next answer is no, you can’t make money out of a food blog, or to be more precise, you can’t make a living directly.  Not as things are, whether it will change or not, that I don’t know. I’ve been blogging for just over 2 years and in [...]

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Learning Curve During 2011

December 31, 2011
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I thought it would be a good idea to do a recap of my blog’s year, but rather than talk about recipes I go through and highlight what I’ve learnt through my posts.   Starting at the beginning of the year : Stoping Ice-cream Becoming Too Hard Blog Post Here Recipes which contains a lot of [...]

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Christmas Day 2011

December 26, 2011
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Today, boxing day, is the real Christmas day for a mum with small kids I think.  I get to do this, catch up with favourite blogs, look through my new cookery books and have some time to read. This year’s Christmas was all about the 4 year old, the perfect age for the magic of [...]

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