Food adventures, food memories and food thoughts.
Coronavirus isolating might be resulting in a lack of ingredients in my store cupboard but it certainly isn’t limiting the frequency at which I bake. If anything I’m finding myself in the kitchen more often than normal. This is partly down to the fact home baking helps to eke out our supples and partly to …
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It’s all about the bread this week and that’s as it should be as #RealBreadWeek is all over my Twitter timeline. It’s as if the algorithms have been in my kitchen and smelled the baking. There’s already been a couple of loaves this week and there will probably be another before next weekend. I wouldn’t …
During the course of the month I’ve tried to keep a steady mix of sweet and savoury recipes and for the penultimate I’m sharing a bake that has elements of both. It’s a cinnamon and raisin jumble loaf, sweet raisin filled dough with a swirl of cinnamon and brown sugar running through it. The finished …
Some days are made for exotic bakes and some are made for comfort baking. Todays baking plan was bread and and I decided that it felt like a comfort day, a day for some good old fashioned white crusty bread. Normally when I bake bread it’s with wholemeal or spelt flours and there’s often some …
A busy weekend of preparing for Christmas and seeing my family has made me realise just how close it’s getting. Cards are arriving and we’ve exchanged presents today with some family members who we won’t be seeing over the holidays. It’s definitely time to start thinking about Christmas food. After all of the sweet indulgence …
For Baking Advent Calendar Day 11 I’ve been into what is relatively unchartered territory for me. My partner recently acquired The New Vegan by Aine Carlin and has been trying to persuade me to cook something from it. To be honest I didn’t have a great deal of enthusiasm , but when she pointed out …
I had two bakes yesterday. The first was the mince pies that I shared for day 7, the second was some bread and that’s what we’re having for Baking Advent Calendar day 8. I know I’ve written before about how much I enjoy baking bread, but at fear of repeating myself I do think that …
As someone who cooks regularly for the fun, pleasure and indulgence of it, the last week few days have been a reminder that sometimes plain and simple options are best. That an empty plate and a contented smile at the end of a meal is the best feedback you can get. My partners mother suffered …
I baked some bread today. In itself not unusual and any regular readers are probably already rolling their eyes and thinking ‘tell us something different’. Today was a bit different though. It wasn’t just that we needed bread, it was also that I needed the therapeutic buzz that a couple of hours baking gives me. …
Although this blog is only couple of months old I’ve already written on a few occasions about how much I enjoy making bread. Based on that you won’t be surprised to hear that Bake Off bread week was too much of a temptation to only bake the once. Bread always feels like particularly guilt free …
David in the kitchen.