Baking

How To Make: An Easy Loaf – My EveryDay Bread with No Kneading

October 19, 2010
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This post has become far far bigger than I first thought it would, I’m trying to cover as much detail as possible to give the biggest chance of reproducing what I can in my little kitchen; a tasty easy loaf to fit around your busy day.  That’s my criteria here if like me time is […]

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Fresh Fig Tart with Crème Pâtissière flavoured with Orange Blossom

October 10, 2010
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Just before entering the gloom of our winter when the summer fruit trees go to sleep I can still buy the last of the autumn’s fruits; plums and fresh figs, by November we’ll be back to apples, pears and tropical fruits.  There’s some good offers on figs which is great for some indulgence and making […]

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Yoghurt Cake , Yoghurt Muffins (Yogurt Cake, Yogurt Muffins) of Any Flavour

October 3, 2010
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Here it is my standard cake recipe for any occasion, it has now taken over the Victoria Sponge for the all in one quick throw it together always turns out delicious cake, this cake seems even more moist the second day.  I’ve been playing around with it over the last few months.  I tried out a […]

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Failed Yoghurt Plum Cake and Not Quite There Blueberry Cake

September 16, 2010
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You see even after 20 years of baking I still do classic mistakes such as this one of wrongly assuming non-stick baking tins are non-stick!  However, other than the fact that this is one of the ugliest cakes I’ve made there was very little else wrong with it.  I was trying to go for the […]

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Finally Success with Dan’s White Sourdough

July 22, 2010
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Dan Lepard’s recipe in his Handmade Loaf book page 28, is a very wet mixture which will give more holes in your sourdough, a good thing, but for traditional breadmakers like me it’s a nightmare working with such wet dough.  My previous attempts have all pretty much ended up with tasty but flat loaves, good […]

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Happy 12th Birthday!

July 21, 2010
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I use to feel sorry for parents with children who’s birthdays were close together…and now I’m one of those.  Usually by now middle child’s birthday occurs during the  school summer holidays but for some reason it wasn’t so this year.  She just had some friends over after school for birthday cake and will have her […]

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Semi Sourdough White Bread – My Family’s Favourite

July 20, 2010
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This has become a regular loaf in our household, middle child loves it, and Bikerboy asks for it.  If I  haven’t baked any bread, I get a puzzle look from him to say, “why?”.  Today oldest child rang from the field across our house where she was chatting with her friends, to ask if they […]

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Dan Lepard White Sourdough using No-knead Method

June 30, 2010
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Using here Dan Lepard’s white sourdough recipe from his Handmade Loaf book which I find quite wet.  Something I’ve had to get use to.  I who was comfortable making dried yeast doughs has had to forget everything I know about making bread when I embarked on my journey of sourdough 4 months ago.  Dan’s white […]

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Dan Lepard White Sourdough Modified using no-knead method step-by-step

June 30, 2010
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I’ve been baking a lot of bread lately.  Baking dried yeast breads is addictive once you start to produce a decent loaf, but there’s something about baking a good sourdough that becomes obsessive.  I’ve lost count of the amount of white sourdoughs I’ve baked, with an adjustment here and there, seeing how reducing the liquid […]

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Double Strawberry Muffins or Cakes

May 31, 2010
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I first made these cakes last summer and had posted them in my old blog and since strawberries are now appearing everywhere it seems appropriate to transfer the recipe here.   I came to create these cakes because last year I went through a phase of trying to find a sponge cake recipe for my […]

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How To: Make Light Muffins

May 31, 2010
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If like me you learned how to bake over 20 years ago in the UK then you probably learned how to whisk or cream cake mixture really well, making sure all the ingredients are all well amalgamated giving it lots of air.  I had to relearn how to make muffin-style cakes and stop myself from […]

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Rhubarb and Orange Blossom

May 20, 2010
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Last year I experimented with rhubarb and raspberries quite a bit, rhubarb and raspberry sorbet and a variation was adding some rose water…it’s a post I still have to move from my old blog to here….rhubarb and raspberries go well together not just for flavour but if you want your summer rhubarb to be luscious […]

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Work In Progress – Upside Down Cheesecake

May 4, 2010
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Very often while making recipes for posting and I may have 2 or 3 I’m working on at the same time I’ll also have this; a recipe I don’t want to give up on but I’ve come to a dead end with it.  The reason I don’t want to give up on this recipe is […]

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The Sourdough Queen Has Passed On Her Magic

April 21, 2010
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I have to post this to give a Great Big Thank You to my good friend blogger Gill who is responsible for my recent addiction to baking sourdough.  Gill makes very impressive bread and has been my mentor with the sourdough.  Because of her generosity of passing on a starter she has turned my bread […]

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Apple & Brown Sugar Cake

March 23, 2010
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It’s time to bake a cake.  This post was supposed to be many other things I have on the list but nothing seemed quite right because I don’t feel right, and food is very closely connected with emotions for me. If I don’t feel in the mood to cook something then it won’t turn out […]

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