Year: 2014
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The Permaculture Kitchen – now available
My book had been printed! I went with Debs yesterday to Cambrian Printers to see The Permaculture Kitchen being bound. The team there were brilliant. They were all very friendly and happy to explain to me what they were doing and how the machines worked. I was impressed by their calm professionalism despite a day…
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The Permaculture Kitchen – launch plans
We have made lots of exciting progress on my book since my last post. We’ve finished the design, layout and proofing of the book. The whole shebang went to Cambrian Printers in Aberystwyth on Friday to be printed. The pages have been printed, they now need to be cut to size, folded, stitched together and…
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Kombucha sourdough bread recipe
This successful experiment could revolutionise my baking. It means that I can bake sourdough bread in 24 hours without the need to keep an active leaven refreshed. The bread is gloriously moist and chewy as sourdough should be. This has a big malty wholemeal taste with a rich, crisp crust. It’s not at all sharp…
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Currant ‘champagne’ recipe – quick fizz
If you want a fizz that tastes spectacular, this recipe is for you. In under a month you get the full bright fruity taste of currants with a mildly mouth puckering tart-tannin background. The aroma is the wonderful woodland smell of crushed currant leaves. All this surrounded with lively & youthful fizz. I’m delighted with…
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Three-cornered leek recipes
This box arrived courtesy of a very generous Lindsay on Twitter. Lindsay has a wonderful surfeit of these in Devon and needed an ID for it. She also wanted to be rid of some and so one thing led to another. It’s allium triquetrum or three-cornered leek (aka three-cornered garlic). It’s so called because of…
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The Permaculture Kitchen – nearly published
Well my first book is nearly printed. That’s the proper cover design above. Read on to find out whose hands they are 😉 I hope you like it and that loads of people find it useful.The Permaculture Kitchen shows you how to cook no faff, seasonal & sustainable food with what your garden or seasonal…
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Seedy Penpals January 2014 – My Parcel
Our Seedy Penpals exchange has got off to a grand start this year. I received this very thoughtful & generous parcel above from Lorraine last week. Squash seeds Lorraine sent us four different squash varieties from US seed supplier Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. Pattison Golden Mabre Scallop (summer squash) Gelber Englischer Custard (summer squash)…
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Wine barm bread
It’s funny how things spread. My twitter pal Jessica read the earlier post on how to use a cider barm to make sourdough bread. Serendipity is a wonderful thing as Jessica was racking wine that day. So Jessica contacted me on Twitter… And so Jessica did. I’m very grateful to Jessica who sent the pictures…
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Cider barm sourdough bread
In the last post you saw how Julia Moore used a sourdough levain to start to make cider. Here the circle is completed as the sediment from the racked cider is used to ferment a sourdough. There’s a tradition of using the foam of a beer ferment or the brewing leftovers to make a ‘Barm Bread’.…