Dos Gatos

We don’t usually do animal pics but this is a bona fide bakery operative, Legs, Pest Control Officer: Here the scourge of small rodents is soaking up the low winter sun after a hard day on patrol. Plus the near horizontal rays of the sun pick out other objects lost for the rest of the […]

Breakfast (Contains Gluten)

Raisin Challah, naturally leavened and full of lovely gluten (someone stole a raisin)

Hip Flask Refill

Second two day course in seven days. Last week we had Justin doing Microbakery. Very different this week with Jeremy. His partner bought him a course for his birthday so the objective was to give him a good time but also an intensive hands-on bread skills experience. Actually that’s always the objective – it’s just […]

Stagefright

Sometimes I still get a sort of stagefright before a bake even though I’m entering my tenth year of baking for sale – the fear that you are about to attempt something that’s physically impossible – not just because of the aging body but also the size of the fridge for retarding and the ovens […]

Supermoon II

Parmesan & Courgette Flatbread. Can only be seen in “Sourdough – your guidebook to the world of Naturally Leavened Bread”. No worries about cloud cover.

Supermoon!

2 kilo Pain de Campagne taken from my new “Sourdough – your guide to the world of Naturally Leavened Bread”. Available shortly (just got to run a couple of bread courses first).

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Celebration Breads

Remember this one? Bara CK bread – baked to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama for his first term so it must be eight years ago (bara being Welsh for bread). Cranberries soaked in bourbon and pecans. I think this loaf even has a slight resemblance to his long, thin face. It’s hard to do […]

Ring out the old …

… ring in the new. No, I don’t mean Trump. Just finished a total revision of Bethesdabasics, renamed … well read the cover photo! Available as a pdf any minute.

Busy, busy …

Sorry I’ve been so quiet. For us holidays are time of reflection and Grand Plans as well as a bit (lot) of excess. As you get older plans become less grand because you’d better cram it in while the going’s good. So just when I decide I should concentrate on writing, rather than baking and […]