Work In Progess

The Price of Developing Recipes

September 10, 2012
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This weekend was suppose to produce at least one successful recipe out of my trials, either from the Honey and Sichuan Pepper cake or the Limu Omani Brown Butter Cookies, but nope it wasn’t to be. Over the period I’ve been posting recipes I forget how many kilos eggs, butter, sugar, flour, fruit, chocolate I’ve […]

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Writing an ebook on Sourdough, part one: Starters

June 27, 2012
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It’s not news I’m writing an ebook on Sourdough, for a while I’ve been twitting, and posting photos on twitter and facebook sharing my frustrations with my research and most recently my biochemistry lessons. Not so quietly I sit here banging my head on the table exasperated by my dimness. Ask me to make something, […]

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Something Missing in the Fabulous Baker Brothers Chocolate Cake Recipe

January 22, 2012
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I made this cake after seeing it on the Channel 4 programme The Fabulous Baker Brothers presented by Tom and Henry, the recipe is here.  It seemed a straight forward flourless chocolate cake, there are quite a few recipes out there including this one on my blog here.  What intrigued me was the end result of […]

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Learning Curve During 2011

December 31, 2011
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I thought it would be a good idea to do a recap of my blog’s year, but rather than talk about recipes I go through and highlight what I’ve learnt through my posts.   Starting at the beginning of the year : Stoping Ice-cream Becoming Too Hard Blog Post Here Recipes which contains a lot of […]

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Progress of Utility Room Baking Space

November 2, 2011
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Since I’ve been back from France there has been some progress in turning what was our dumping space garage into a proper utility room with baking space for me. These photos were taken last week, above photo a view into the garden. Below the door leads into Bikerboy’s now very tiny garage that barely fits […]

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Chestnut Flour Madeleines – Gluten Free

October 30, 2011
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  I’ve been wanting to test out this recipe here for a year, had asked my local health food shop to order some chestnut flour but after a month of waiting they told me they couldn’t get any.  This summer on ordering lots of different flours from Shipton Mill I was delighted to see they […]

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Over Proving the Dough with Time

August 7, 2011
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When things go wrong it’s a great opportunity to show why.  I have plenty of failures but don’t always have the time to photograph and post them but here I wanted to make the effort since it’s something I don’t often see discussed.  I’ve read plenty of discussions on over-working the dough causing the collapse […]

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I’ve Been Baking…

February 18, 2011
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I’m suppose to be jogging right now, trying to get rid of the stone I’ve manage to catch since the summer but feeling rather puffed out with all the misfortunes with my baking this week…so instead while the 3 year old is kind enough to give me a little break I’m going to explain how […]

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Work in Progress: Clementine Cake Failure

February 1, 2011
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For a reason unbeknown to me the Winter of 2010-11 and  Citrous Cakes are not meant to be in my household.  At the beginning of winter I went through two or three trials of orange and polenta cake which resulted in a good tasting cake but the texture wasn’t right.  Yesterday my day was a […]

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Work In Progress: Gluten Free CornCakes

October 7, 2010
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I’ve been obsessed with fresh corn throughout this summer, I have these food obsessions from time to time.  It has coincided with my discovery that you can microwave fresh corn in its husks in just 3 minutes or if already peeled on a plate with clingfilm.  This gives me the time to throw a salad […]

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Chicken Wrapped in Banana Leaf – First Attempt

May 21, 2010
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When I made my recent very short stop into China town in London and picked up a few ingredients like  Chinese garlic chives I also picked up a bag of these, banana leaves because I’ve never used them before, which is like a red rag to a bull with me, I have cupboards full of […]

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Beetroot (Beets) In Sugar Crust Experiment

May 21, 2010
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If I come across a new way of cooking something that doesn’t require buying a whole set of new equipment then I’ll bookmark, it was the case with these beets.  There’s a blog that I love visiting because you never know what you’re going to find, it’s like Christmas day, it’s always a surprise what […]

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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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