Month: October 2011
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White and kamut sourdough bread
I experimented today & used 20% kamut flour in with my white sourdough bread. Seems like the long loaf was pleased to see me: some grin there… And this round one is just a star: Taste test to come once it cools a bit 🙂
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Pizzoccheri, buckwheat pasta recipe
I just love pizzoccheri. The dish is robust & earthy in taste & feel: a true peasant meal. It’s made with buckwheat pasta which is very easy to make or you can buy dried from Italian food stockists. It’s a traditional recipe of the Valtellina in Lombardy, Northern Italy. Classically it’s made with the buckwheat…
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Chocolate & almond fudge cake
This is a chocolate & almond fudge cake that Debs made from Dan Lepard’s fantastic new book Short & Sweet for the Short and Tweet Challenge. It’s beautifully light and moist and yet richly chocolatey. A sophisticated tasting cake that would be an ideal dinner party stunner. It’s also great as a treat for a…
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The Sloe Trilogy III: How to make sloe wine, vodka, jam
Fridge Jam This is the third part of the Sloe Trilogy where you use the same batch of sloes to make wine, vodka and fridge jam. This jam has the great sloe taste. I was surprised, to be honest, because I thought that the flavour transfer to the wine and vodka would mean it carried…