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Chicken Satay at the BBQ

April 25, 2010

Yesterday, whilst I was wandering round the woods trying to find Ernie…again, I needed to take my mind off the fact that he might be stuck down a badger set, so I sat down and caught up with my Twitter stream. I spotted that James Brewer from ‘Back to the Chopping Board‘ was making chicken […]

Let’s Get Cooking

April 19, 2010

George started his ‘Let’s Get Cooking’ club tonight at school and came home with this lovely looking pitta bread pizza Lucky he did really, as he only has time for a quick change and something to eat then he is back out to cub scouts in half an hour. I just threw some salad at […]

Baking Addiction

April 15, 2010

I think I have some sort of baking addiction. Does that even have a name? I obviously couldn’t ‘bake’ anything whilst we were away camping because it’s all ‘boil in the bag’ rice and chilli, or sausages and ‘Smash’. I didn’t even realise what I was doing as on my return I started grabbing ingredients […]

Cake Pops

April 2, 2010

I defy anyone to see a picture of a cake pop and not be a bit intrigued. What’s in them? How do you make them? Can I have one? I had seen these on FoodGawker and was itching to have a go. The School Spring Fair seemed like a good enough reason. Surely small children at a […]

Easter Goodies

March 31, 2010

As well as my normal home baking recently there has been a lot of cake: Here are some of the things I have made so far on the run up to the Easter break. None of the traditional simnel cake or hot cross buns from me due to my dislike of orange peel and marzipan. […]

Estonian Kringel – Fresh From The Oven

March 27, 2010

I was really pleased that this was the bread chosen by Jo from Jo’s Kitchen for March’s Fresh From The Oven Baking Challenge. It’s a fabulous looking loaf even before it gets its chocolate topping. In fact when I make it again I am going to add cinnamon to the sugar and leave out the […]

All Things Green

March 17, 2010

Here’s an update on the things we have been making this week. As chance would have it all the things we have made have a green theme which is kind of relevant with it being Saint Patrick’s Day today. I had a couple of egg whites to spare so I made my first attempt at […]

No Knead Bread V2.0

February 27, 2010

I have made this bread almost every week. It gives you a sturdy, crusty loaf, with an almost ciabatta like airiness inside. It is the only loaf I know that crackles as it cools; it's that crusty.

Shrove Tuesday comes early

February 14, 2010

We used to celebrate Shrove Tuesday late as I was often too busy with work to stand flipping pancakes at the stove all evening. This year we had our pancakes 2 days early. We will probably have some for pudding tonight too. Everyone loves a pancake. Nothing unusual in the quantities in my recipe, just […]

Choccy Buns

January 27, 2010

It’s January. As I write this we are only 9 days into the month and I have already completed this month’s baking challenge for Fresh From The Oven. I’m a good girl I am. I was nervous about starting this challenge it as it look quite complicated but as Eddie Izzard once said you should go towards […]

George’s Mini Pizza’s

January 16, 2010

I wanted a pizza for lunch, but all we had was crumpets, so I asked Mum if I could make some mini pizzas out of them. The ingredients are one crumpet, some tomato puree and ketchup, cheddar cheese and parmesan and a snipped up Peperami. The tomatoeyness squidges into the holes in the crumpets. First […]

Super Quick Oatmeal Bread

January 13, 2010

Thanks to Helen from a forkful of spaghetti who added this to her blog yesterday after a few of us asked for the recipe that she mentioned on Twitter. It’s a quick bread, with no yeast, no kneading and takes only 1 hour. Heaven! Go to a forkful of spaghetti for the full details. Here it […]

Things to do when snowed in

January 6, 2010

We have kind of been snowed up a bit recently, and as George is always getting the stay-at-home-snack-attacks I thought I would make some Rocky Road. Version 1.0 was a bit of a shopping disaster, as due to the weather I ended up getting most of the provisions from our local petrol station, who needless […]

Last Minuten Stollen

December 28, 2009

This month’s “Fresh From The Oven” challenge was to make a Stollen. Now I have to admit to reservations about this one. Not least that I don’t like marzipan, but I also knew things would be quite hectic on the run up to Christmas and that I would not have chance to get it done. […]

Tarts (and Mince Pies)

December 17, 2009

Okay, okay I relented and made some mince pies. I didn’t want to as I don’t like mincemeat, but my name was down to make a couple o’ dozen for the school carol service so I had to bite the bullet and bake some for the first time…EVER! Here they are looking festive with some […]

Let them eat cake

December 9, 2009

I promise that this will be my last cake blogpost…at least until after Christmas! I don’t mean to do it. It just happens. There’s a birthday or something and cake is the answer. Let’s face it cake is the answer to lots of things really. George’s cousin Pascal turned 1 last month so here is […]

FFTO Baking Challenge – November

November 28, 2009

The Fresh From The Oven (FFTO) Challenge for November was set by ‘Goodshoeday” from with knife and fork blog. It is a White Tin Loaf that uses Dan Lepard’s kneading method and has milk in the recipe to keep it soft and slightly sweet. It was quite a nice challenge to have as although the bread […]

Pizza’s for Pudsey

November 12, 2009

Our local Artisan Bakery is The Loaf, in Crich. This week they held a charity ‘Pizzas for Pudsey’ evening in aid of the BBC’s Children in Need. Andrew and Roger were busy planning for the event so I pitched in to help out with a bit of inspiration for the topping of the cakes. The […]

Bread Bowls

October 28, 2009

My second challenge for the Fresh From the Oven Bread Baking Group was something I had seen in Richard Bertinet’s book: Soup Bowls made of bread dough. He had the idea after getting an indian takeaway and thinking how unappetising it looked in the plastic trays. Corry of Bake it Off has taken Richard’s recipe […]