One of my regular Google searches is to check just how much notice I need to take of the ‘best before’ or BBE dates on food items in my pantry. Now we’re back into a full-blown lockdown here in the UK I’m once again going through the shelves to see what we’ve got and more …
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Now doesn’t feel like the time for abstemiousness
Everywhere I look at the moment I’m seeing references to #dryJanuary or #veganuary. Even to the extent that spellcheck just found veganuary for me when I misspelt it. If ever there were frequency illusions I didn’t want to be happening at the moment, it’s these. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against the principles …
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The joy of group baking
Bake Off is done for another year. First, there was the expectation that like so many of our annual highlights, it just wouldn’t happen this year. Then a few brief weeks of anticipation once we’d heard it was going ahead. Followed by ten weeks of baking challenges that feel as if they’ve gone by in …
Great British Bake Off 2020 week 8
We’re down to the last five contestants in the Bake Off, this was quarter-finals week and the challenges were all desserts. For me, dessert is a catch-all title which can include gateaus or even pies, as long as they’re of the sweet variety. For Bake Off, it gets a bit more specific, as the ones …
It’s the little things that keep you going.
It’s the little things that keep you going at a time like this. My last post was al about the sort of baking which takes a few hours to complete and feels like quite a project. This time around it’s the quick and easy option, the sort of baking where you barely have time to …
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Great British Bake Off 2020 week 7
This season’s Bake Off has reached the point where the weekly themes start to go a bit off-piste. In previous years we’ve been served vegan and Danish baking, this time around we’ve had Japanese followed by the Eighties. When I saw this theme listed I was desperately hoping the show might include a Black Forest …
Discovering new flavours
I’m the person who often picks the dish he doesn’t recognise on the menu. The person who then sits wondering what’s going to be delivered to the table. Hoping for a new food experience, eager to be the envy of my dining companions, running the risk of leaving them thinking ‘will he never learn’. It …
Great British Bake Off 2020 week 4
Week four and we’ve reached chocolate on Bake Off. The temptation at this point is to ask ‘who doesn’t like chocolate’ and assume no one will put their hand up. I suppose there must be people who don’t but I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone who’s made that claim. This particular week in the …
Great British Bake Off 2020 week 3
There’s something about making bread that almost acts as a dividing line between bakers. There aren’t many amongst us who won’t make the occasional cake, maybe now and again have a go at some scones and if feeling really adventurous there might be a special occasion pie. Bread is different though, no one just seems …
Spur of the moment baking.
Some days my baking is a project, the result of great planning and cookbook scanning. Other days it’s spur of the moment, what’s in the cupboards, what needs using. Yesterday was one of those. A ‘let’s see what we’ve got ‘day. Like so many people during lockdown, and the strange semi lockdown we’ve drifted into, …
David in the kitchen. 