This lockdown loaf is a very easy loaf of bread to make – and uses just four ingredients! You just need to be able to get hold of strong white flour … which is not always easy right now! An Italian dream My last blog post was about my wonderful holiday in Tuscany last summer. […]
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GBBO week 3 – plaited loaf: cheese, tomato and pesto couronne
The latest edition of Bake Off involved delicious bread – possibly one of my favourite things ever, but sadly something which makes me fat: because once I start eating the stuff I literally cannot stop. Mmmmmm, lovely bread. Anyway, the options this week were chocolate bread, which sounds utterly amazing but there’s no way Andrew […]
Week 42 – making beer bread with the Fabulous Baker Brothers
Let me tell you, those baker brothers are pretty fabulous: they look good, they make delicious food, they are friendly and charming, and they seem to be genuinely nice guys. And next week both Tom and Henry Herbert are travelling east from the Cotswolds (where their family’s bakery is based) to open up a bang-on-trend Hoxton pop-up called The […]
How to make a 3 course meal in minutes
As I may have mentioned once or twice, I spend quite a lot of time thinking about food – either what I am going to eat next, what I am going to cook for dinner that evening, or what I am going to make next week … essentially it boils down to always thinking about […]
GBBO 2014 challenge week 3 – filled bread
I am running late with my Bake Off challenge this week, as I spent the bank holiday weekend in Paris for the Rock en Seine music festival. So instead of baking bread, I was eating sausages, aligot, Paris-Brest and confit duck, and watching Arctic Monkeys, Prodigy, Queens of the Stone Age and Blondie rock Paris. Oh […]
Dough-y goodness
I have been fed up of buying bread rolls each day to have with my soup, so last weekend I made some lovely little rolls, using Nigella Lawson’s essential white loaf recipe from Domestic Goddess. The recipe is detailed below. For weightwatchers fans, each roll works out at 2 discovery plan points. 500g strong white […]
A little bit of being naughty can go a long way
So, week one of the new year was great for me – I pointed religiously and lost 2lbs over the week. I was very strict but it wasn’t too hard to cook meals which were low points (pesto pasta bulked out with broccoli, sous vide salmon, prawn and chilli pasta, beef mince stew with dumplings, […]
A lazy Sunday of cookbooks and beef stew
The clocks have gone back – great for an extra hour in bed unless your cat doesn’t want you to sleep and wants you to get up and play instead. Alfie’s whining nearly drove me mad – it certainly drove me to get up earlier than intended. Obviously once I was clearly up and about […]