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My new love….
Oh my goodness! Now I don’t want to brag but I mixed with my hands, kneaded, prooved , plaited, prooved , baked and tucked into cholla bread from Paul Hollywood’s ‘How to bake’. Most of you will have...
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Bloomin’ marvelous!
I have friends for lunch today and on the menu is Chestnut soup with homemade wholemeal bloomer . The soup is a standard in our home at this time of year using Merchant Gourmet whole chestnuts . I use...
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A bit fruity!
What do you think? A cup of tea with this at 3:00pm? Will that restore your waning work energy? The temptation of course is to plough your way right through the whole loaf being so light and is why...
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Bread Therapy
I have been in need of bread making therapy for days now. It started 10 days ago when our 1 year old got a bug, swiftly followed by yours truly and then our 5 year old. If it had been the middle ages...
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A bit of colour on a wet day….
Not to be deterred by the rain, wellies and waterproofs on, we headed to Wisley RHS to burn some of our 5 year old boy’s energy off. There was a stark contrast between the cold and wet of the gardens...
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Comfort buns
We all fall into eating for comfort at various times. For me today it had to be these buns following 3 nights of little sleep and a poorly child! I have said previously that I find bread making...
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Easter Tea
The day should have run as leisurely breakfast with boiled egg, church, relaxed lunch , scoffing of chocolate eggs, walk by the sea and tea. Everyone happy and full of Easter joy! The day ran sobbing...
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Easter Egg French Toast
My son had way too much chocolate for Easter and we are now exploring other ways to rid this house of the load! Breakfast treat today was chocolate eggy bread which involved some egg bashing first...
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Date and orange scones
Just what my son needed after school today …..nom nom nom date and orange scones!!! Take 350g self raising flour 3 tablespoon caster sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 85 g PURE or dairy...
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Bara Brith / torta negra
For feeding the hungry monster after school this week , I made the welsh bara brith or welsh Argentinian settlers torta negra. I think we eat too much white sugar in our diets and as loaded with dried...
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Sticky cinnamon buns
Sweet, sticky, cinnamon, doughy, soft, crispy and more. Satisfying, filling, naughty, warming, comforting and more. These are good. SOoooooo GoooooD! Dough: 500g white bread flour 10 g salt 10g quick...
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Honey sweet apricot focaccia
We last had this as travel fodder on route to Northumberland from Surrey . It was great travel food for breakfast but the less scenic surroundings of The Watford gap service station car park slightly...
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A bit fruity!
What do you think? A cup of tea with this at 3:00pm? Will that restore your waning work energy? The temptation of course is to plough your way right through the whole loaf being so light and is why...
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Bread Therapy
I have been in need of bread making therapy for days now. It started 10 days ago when our 1 year old got a bug, swiftly followed by yours truly and then our 5 year old. If it had been the middle ages...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A bit of colour on a wet day….
Not to be deterred by the rain, wellies and waterproofs on, we headed to Wisley RHS to burn some of our 5 year old boy’s energy off. There was a stark contrast between the cold and wet of the gardens...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Comfort buns
We all fall into eating for comfort at various times. For me today it had to be these buns following 3 nights of little sleep and a poorly child! I have said previously that I find bread making...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Easter Tea
The day should have run as leisurely breakfast with boiled egg, church, relaxed lunch , scoffing of chocolate eggs, walk by the sea and tea. Everyone happy and full of Easter joy! The day ran sobbing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Easter Egg French Toast
My son had way too much chocolate for Easter and we are now exploring other ways to rid this house of the load! Breakfast treat today was chocolate eggy bread which involved some egg bashing first...
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