BREAD Sourdough English Muffins When maintaining a sourdough starter, there is always excess starter that is usually disposed of after each feeding. I’ve never been to waste something I really wanted to make use of this live culture rather than through it away each weekend. So, looking into it, I discovered that crumpets
adobe spark Avoncroft Flour I decided to use Adobe Spark to create a post about using the Avoncroft Flour.
BREAD Sesame Sourdough Bread This is the second set of loaves I have made with the excellent Avoncroft Museum flour. There’s something about this fine milled ingredient that’s great at absorbing water and gives the dough some real strength. It bakes with a lovely colour and gives a chewy crumb that’s
BREAD Muesli Sourdough Loaf Following the success of my earlier porridge bread, I had some flower petal muesli that I thought would add another dimension to a sourdough. Furthermore, my wife had got me for some wholemeal flour that had been milled locally at Avoncroft Museum, which was really exciting. It was very fine
BREAD Baking Bread with Lava Siggi Rafn Hilmarsson is an Icelandic baker with an interesting technique. He buries his dough 16 inches underground where it actually bakes from the natural heat generated by Iceland’s volcanic hot springs. Source : Great Big Story
bristol Small Street Espresso I’m currently travelling to Bristol every weekend and, obviously, I have started to look out for interesting speciality coffee houses. The first one I’ve looked out for is the Small Street Espresso. It’s a small cafe in the old town part of Bristol city centre. Inside is
africa Suke Quto Suke Quto is a washed coffee from Ethiopia from Origin. Notes of brilliant orange and honey, vibrant Bergamot tea, juicy red grapes and a slight ginger lift. This must be one of the freshest coffees I had! As I write this, it was roasted a mere five days ago. Coffee
BREAD Seeded Spelt & Rye Loaf In addition to the Christmas Bread I posted last, I made a spelt loaf – I was pretty busy! Ingredients 400g Spelt flour 100g Rye flour 75g Mixed seeds 1tsp Honey 12g Salt 7g Yeast 350g Water Method Everything was mixed together and kneaded by hand. It then was left to
BREAD Christmas Bread My family tends to meet after Christmas to get together, it’s easier in a way when the pressure from the actual event has died off. This year, I fancied making everyone a loaf presented in a basket and that loaf should be related to Christmas in some way. After
chocolate Chocolate And Mint Shortcake I’ve never made shortbread before and I had never realised how easy it was. These shortbreads have three layers – the shortbread itself, some fondant icing and a chocolate top. Each layer has to rest before the next, but they did bond well. This recipe lends itself to all kinds
ad Le Fantôme I came across this ad the other day. Now, I’m no car fan in fact I don’t even drive, but this is a great ad from Ford. It’s directed by Jake Scott and stars Mads Mikkelsen as an assassin. The car is there, but it’s not
BLOG 50 Years Ago, TV Changed Forever On the 29th October 1966, TV drama changed, forever. At 18:13, the popular TV series, Doctor Who took the bold move of introducing regeneration and wide mouthed audiences across the country watched their beloved Doctor played by William Hartnell metamorphose into Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor. It came about
BREAD Pulled Pork Breads This is a collection of breads that have pulled pork embedded within the dough along with apple sauce and sage stuffing. It was a challenge set to me from a colleague at work – ‘Make a bread, Si, with pulled pork in that doesn’t spill out everywhere.’ So I thought
brownie Coconut And Raspberry Brownie Here’s a truly superb recipe for brownies and if cooked carefully, can yield the kind of cake that’s crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside – which as we all know is the best kind Ingredients 185g Dark chocolate (85%) 185g Unsalted butter 3 Eggs 275g Golden
buckwheat Puffed Buckwheat Bites These little cakes are a little bit like rice krispy cakes or maybe more like sugar puff cakes but without the sugar. They are made with puffed buckwheat, which I found in Holland & Barrett and I have been adding it to my cereal, but saw a recipe using rice
cashew Cashew Yogurt I’ve made this a few times from a recipe I found on Green Kitchen. It’s a quick to make alternative to dairy yogurt and is great with cereal such as granola and bircher or to go alongside a hot apple pie or similar. Ingredients Psyllium Paste ½tsp Psyllium
beetroot Beetroot And Turmeric Bread I fancied trying something a little different today and wanted to bake overnight around work, so I thought I’d make use of some beetroot powder I’d recently bought from Grape Tree. This also seemed like an excellent opportunity to try out some new smoked oil from the Cotswolds
BREAD Sourdough Starter Update I noticed that my starter had become increasingly smelling of acetone and after several feedings, it wouldn’t go away, so I’ve gone dramatic and and recreated it using a teaspoon of the original and a teaspoon of Trewithen Dairy yogurt, a bit of Cornish magic! The acetone smell
BREAD Sultana And Cinnamon Sourdough Bread This is a loaf made fairly quickly as a gift. It’s the standard sourdough recipe with added sultanas and cinnamon and it smells incredible. Ingredients Leaven 15g Sourdough starter 120g Cool water 105g Wholemeal bread flour Dough 375g White bread flour 200g Warm water @ 28°C 12g Salt 100g
BREAD French Sourdough Country Loaf I work in Solihull and every so often a market is hosted there. Sometimes it’s local farmers, sometimes further reaching. This week just gone was a French market. I saw a stall selling bread so, obviously, I took a look. There was a variety of tarts and small cakes
BLOG The Inventor of Motion Pictures I came across this the other day, it’s a short video telling the story of Edward Muybridge who is considered as being the first person to create moving pictures. The film is narrated from the perspective of Eadweard’s abandoned son, Floddie, and the entire tale is seen through
audio Dangerous Visions The BBC will be soon broadcasting a new sci-fi series on radio called Dangerous Visions. Dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. You will be disturbed, as you see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. There’s 10 episodes in all, starting with Aldous Huxley’
apple iBook Aftermath After deciding that this project was at an end, I was with an iBook that that didn’t do anything. I decided the only right thing to do is reverse my work and install OS X back on there. I had to create an image of the DVD of course,
