I love homemade focaccia and walnuts in bread always work well. The dough uses a mix of strong white bread flour, OO Italian pasta flour and mashed potato from a baked jacket potato, this produced a very light crumb. The baked focaccia is lovely dipped into extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Any leftover…
The perfect accompaniment with these cupcakes is a drink of hot chocolate topped with lots of squirty cream and overloaded with marshmallows. The topping on these cupcakes may look a bit skinny but it’s early into February and we’re still trying to eat less. On second thoughts, I think that may be stretching the truth….
Everywhere I look on the Internet it is telling me to love my leftovers. I started to feel a little guilty because I’m not sure that I do love my leftovers, in fact all they do is stare back at me and make me feel bad that I haven’t used everything up from Christmas. For…
I love a ‘bit of nostalgia’, and milk bread baked in a cylindrical ribbed tin brings back memories of my childhood and hopefully my other reader remembers this wonderful soft and tasty loaf of bread too! I can’t recall anything as fancy as sharing bread though. I made this last week to go with our…
Making soup from just a few ingredients is a very cost effective way to feed ourselves and our families during the winter months, although I am more than happy to eat soup all year round. I find a bowl of soup at lunchtime is filling and keeps me going until dinner. Another reason I like…
Finger Rolls or are they Bridge Rolls? Either way they are very light and tender due to the milk content. We ate ours with sausages, lightly fried red onions and a good squeeze of sauce. Conventional Recipe Using a Stand Mixer Makes: 121 eggmilk1 tsp dried instant yeast500g strong white bread flour1 tsp salt1 tbsp…
I am mostly drawn towards coffee and walnut cupcakes but this time I left out the coffee in the cake batter and used Baileys in the buttercream. Good idea – yes? For the cake batter I prefer to use salted butter or to make them lighter substitute some of the butter with margarine. I always…
Why I won’t be dieting this year…….In my house we couldn’t possibly think about cutting back on sugary foods until the end of January. We’ve got a stash of Christmas cake, meringue nests, chocolates, biscuits and lots of other wonderful goodies to get through and as I type this blog post I’m enjoying a bag…
I bought these plums on a whim from the supermarket, they’re what I call the dreaded ‘ripen at home’ which often translates to ‘never will ripen at home’. Why do I do it? This time they were kind to me and ripened at home in a good 10 days after purchase without going mouldy which…
For some unknown reason I’ve got a mountain of gold mini cupcake cases, this recipe uses 18 cases and I’ve still got a whole heap left. These cute sticky gingerbread mini bakes are easy to make and a favourite of ours. They keep for a few days and get stickier by the day but I…
