Hot cross buns are a traditional Easter food that are supposed to be eaten from the beginning of Lent up until Good Friday. I love hot cross buns but have never attempted to make my own before. It was time… Read More ›
Bread
Celeriac and Cheddar Cheese Soda Bread
When I made my Celeriac and Blue Cheese Soda Bread the other day, I blogged that I would be trying it out with cheddar. I hadn’t intended to post this separately as I had thought I would just substitute cheddar… Read More ›
Homemade Bread Recipe (and why it is so much better for you!)
My parents recently visited Norfolk and brought me home a present of flour milled in Norfolk’s only flour producing watermill, from grain grown by East Anglian farmers. They brought me a packet of white flour and one of “nutty oats and… Read More ›
Vegetable Box Cooking – Celeriac and Blue Cheese Soda Bread
A celeriac turned up in my vegetable box this week: I’m not sure that I have ever cooked with celeriac before and wasn’t massively thrilled about it! Root vegetables are my least favourite vegetables and I always struggle with them…. Read More ›
Crusty Bread – made in a casserole dish (crockpot)
This is such a delicious crusty white bread and has a really unusual method. It has a slow, single rise and then is put into a hot casserole dish and straight into a hot oven. Thirty five minutes later you get… Read More ›
Seeded Granary Loaf – and the Real Bread Festival
I was lucky enough to spot a note about the Real Bread Festival in a magazine recently and made sure I got on their website and booked a couple of places on a Richard Bertinet hands-on workshop. Not only was it… Read More ›
Banana Loaf, a stylish plate and a new blog
My daughter came home with the recipe for this banana loaf at the end of one school term. Her only homework that holiday was to make this banana loaf. This is exactly the kind of homework I like. I didn’t… Read More ›
Homemade Multigrain Bread
There are lots of good reasons to make your own bread. The end product is delicious and so much better for you than anything you can buy in the shops, and the process itself is quite good for stress! The… Read More ›
Banana and Cranberry Bread
This is really a cake mixture baked in a bread tin that slices like a loaf. It is delicious with a cup of tea or coffee. All you need is a bowl, a set of scales and a loaf tin…. Read More ›
Granary and Walnut Bread
I have mentioned bread baking in a previous post and we are now back from our week in France spent eating delicious baguette and artisan breads. While you can’t beat baguette made in France, I am excited about being able to… Read More ›