BREAD White Soft Rolls These rolls are apparently Waterford Blaa which is an Irish recipe with a protected status, so a baker has to be certified before claiming these are Blaa. What makes them characteristic is the floury coating and the softness of these white rolls, as well as their square shape. Blaa Ingredients
avocado Cotswold Crunch Loaf This is the first loaf I’ve made using the flour we got direct from FWP Matthews. Because it was super fresh flour and I wanted to make something special with it, I opted to use the baneton and make an oven baked loaf. Ingredients * 500g Organic Cotswold Crunch flour
banana Banana & Chocolate Loaf This really is a cake rather than a bread I think. Loosely, a banana loaf, but the way it’s made makes it a cake. Still, it used up some over ripe bananas! Banana Loaf Ingredients 3/4 Ripe bananas 100g Butter 160g Brown sugar 2 Eggs 227g Self-raising flour
BREAD Best Looking Loaf I've Made Cranberry & Pumpkin Seed Wholemeal Bread I think this is the best looking loaf I’ve ever made in my journey of bread making. It’s a cranberry and pumpkin bread with wholemeal, rye, spelt flours and a bit of milled oatmeal too. The dough was left overnight to ferment
BREAD Vegetable Flatbread Beetroot, Cauliflower and Broccoli Flatbreads These vegetable flatbreads have come from a recipe from the Green Kitchen. Ingredients Broccoli Flatbread * 220g Broccoli * 52g Almond flour * 2 Eggs * oregano, salt, pepper Carrot Flatbread * 352g Carrot * 341g Cauliflower * 100g Almond flour * 4 Eggs * salt, pepper Beetroot Flatbread * 74g Beetroot * 298g Cauliflower * 3
BREAD Cotswold Flour FWP Matthews Cotswold Flours Today was exciting, we visited a mill in Shipton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire. It’s home to FWP Matthews, one of the few family run commercial mills. It’s built right next to the train station and opened in 1912. Previously, in the late 1800s, the family had
BREAD Part 1 : Croissants I’m going to make another go at the croissant. A while back, I made some Pain au Chocolates and they tasted good, but I really struggled with the process and they landed up being a bit dense due to not rolling out the dough thin enough and layering. There
BREAD Part 2 : Croissant Filling Rolling out dough This post is about shaping and filling the croissants. Before we do this though, the dough needs to have the butter added to enrich it. The butter is knocked down to a rectangle about 1cm thick. The dough is then removed from the fridge and the butter
BREAD Part 3 : Playing With Pastry Dough A few extra photos of forming the croissants Chocolate Swirls The Crab
Beer Punk IPA Punk IPA by Brewdog This is a hoppy little number from Brewdog. It goes well with fish. Our scene-stealing flagship is an India Pale Ale that has become a byword for craft beer rebellion; synonymous with the insurgency against mass-produced, lowest common denominator beer. Punk IPA charges the barricades to
BLOG Punk IPA Punk IPA by Brewdog This is a hoppy little number from Brewdog. It goes well with fish. Our scene-stealing flagship is an India Pale Ale that has become a byword for craft beer rebellion; synonymous with the insurgency against mass-produced, lowest common denominator beer. Punk IPA charges the barricades to
avocado Brief Avo-counter All I can say is that this morning, our worlds collided, just like that INXS song.
Beer Cornish Red Ale I’m not that keen on red ale as it tends to taste a little metallic to me, but this one is not bad at all. 50.3419128-4.7880374
bbc Family Owned Cinema I found this on the BBC the other day and wished I could so something similar The family who save unloved cinemas 29 January 2016 Last updated at 00:50 GMT It started out with a mother who had a passion for film. Amanda Mundin rescued a small, dilapidated cinema
BLOG Cornish Red Ale I’m not that keen on red ale as it tends to taste a little metallic to me, but this one is not bad at all.
BREAD Multigrain Spelt & Rye Bread Spelt & Rye Having made six loaves of the Pain de Campagne bread for the family, I then needed to make a more whole grain bread for my Dad. He’s always preferred granary bread so I wanted to create something more specific for him. I ended up making some
BLOG A Most Sad Way To Start A Week A dark day today with news that David Bowie has passed away, leaving a great new album as his final gift.
BREAD Pain de Campagne Pain de Campagne Pain de Campagne, literally translated is French for country bread. There’s no definitive recipe, some breads use yeast, some are sourdough based. Some have added rye, some have added wholewheat flour and apparently, each French baker has their own preferred (secret) recipe. For me, I wanted
BREAD The Banneton Factor I’m making a bunch of loaves for the family next week and decided upon a French recipe. I chose to use fresh yeast as a trial and increase the dough’s hydration to 73%, which is certainly on the high end of what I normally try. Anyway more detail
BLOG Blog Development I haven’t been blogging a huge amount because I’ve been busy moving stuff around. I’ve transferred my personal, bread and coffee blogs from Tumblr to Blogger and I’m in the process of setting up a new photo blog too. The key reason behind the shift is
BLOG Un Petit Tour Dans Paris “Un Petit Tour Dans Paris” is a new 1.5-minute short film by French director Maxime Baudin. “In a splendid and romantic Paris, while everything is going too fast, a young man ride a ‘bicyle’,” the synopsis reads. “But his simple ride is going to take on a whole new
Beer Maritime Salted Caramel Porter Maritime Salted Caramel Porter Here we have a bit of a curveball from M&S. They have worked with Meantime Brewery to create a porter with a caranel flavour – and it works! I remember way back when I tried a chocolate porter for the first time, that was from
