Category: Recipes
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How to make Guanciale, cured pork cheek
Guanciale is the perfect preserved pork. It’s wonderfully versatile & tasty, easy to make, economical to buy & use and looks brilliant. What’s not to like about that? You can see what I made in the picture above: I’m so pleased with the result. Guanciale means “pillow” in Italian, the reason should be obvious. My…
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Potato soda bread recipe with cheese, garlic & thyme
Kaethe from SPUDS (The Sustainable Potatoes United Development Study!) in Ireland said: Cheesy, garlicky soda bread made w/blight resistant Blue Danubes sounds fab, but where is the recipe? Any new take on soda bread ROCKS for us Irish, especially if it incorporates SPUDS…Send a link pronto! Who can resist a request like that? Not me…
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Kefir Bread Recipe
I love the way Twitter works. In particular how ideas get propagated: across the world in an instant and inspiring new networks of enthusiastic people. And also how physical things are shared too. This kefir bread is the result of both such things. My apologies for the pics – they’re taken quickly on an iPhone…
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Cumin & rye flake pitta bread recipe
Here’s a quick and easy pitta bread recipe as requested by my kind and talented Twitter friends @evilgordon & @karlasparlour. I served it with a tasty lamb tangia slow cooked for 7 hours and which had some of the Smen I blogged about earlier. The method is one I’ve borrowed from Dan Lepard, it saves…
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How to make Smen, Moroccan fermented butter
Morocco has a special place in my heart as that’s where I had my honeymoon well over 20 years ago. Since then, I’ve maintained a keen interest in Moroccan & other North African cuisine. One of the ingredients that is traditional to this part of the world is Smen (also called sman, semneh, or sminn) which is a…
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Puntarelle – recipes and how to grow 2
How to grow Puntarelle In my last blog post, I showed you how to use this versatile vegetable. As promised, I’ll tell you how to grow them in this post. We found these very easy to grow last year even with all the rain and lack of sun. If you’d like me to show you…
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Puntarelle – recipes and how to grow
Puntarelle are glorious to eat. This type of chicory is a versatile vegetable which you can eat raw or cooked. It’s also a doddle to grow. We grew it for the first time last year and it will be a firm favourite for the future. You may see recipes for Puntarella, with an ‘a‘ at…
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English heritage wheat sourdough bread
These three sourdough loaves are made with Doves Farm English Wholegrain Wheat flour mixed with Shipton Mill’s Organic White Strong Flour. I made up the dough yesterday and folded it four times and about one hour intervals and then left it in the fridge overnight to retard. This morning I took the dough out of…
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Ginger and Pecan Muffins Recipe
This is one of Debs’ inventions that I made yesterday. When I first tasted them I was in food heaven. Lovely spicy ginger flavour with the roasted pecan taste and a hint of spice. It’s such a gorgeous combination – they are my favourite muffin now. What’s even better about this recipe is that you…