Look what the Easter Bunny done left: Brioche au chocolat, Brioche Nicoise, Chocolate & Raisin Rye (100% rye)  

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Q: Hey DrDoh. My problem is I love that Borodinski with the coriander seed on the bottom. My partner loves the bread but not the seed. Is our relationship doomed to failure? A: Hi Budgieboy. This was one of the toughest problems put to me and I lost a lot of sleep struggling with it. […]

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You might have noticed there’s a bit of cleaning up occurring on this blog. I just realised it’s been running for over five years and has amassed getting on for 375 posts and – it makes a girl think. It’s the old dilemma of which direction(s) to take next. I’ve developed my own baking style […]

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Someone asked me recently if I got bored with baking. It really stopped me in my tracks because, although I have been “breaded-out” in my time and it is harder work than it used to be, baking has become part of me to such an extent that, if I stopped, I wouldn’t be the same […]

Read More Good Day’s Baking

There used to be a pizza restaurant in Bangor called La Bella Vita. It was run by two women and it was pretty reasonable in all senses but the partners eventually fell out and the restaurant didn’t survive too long after one of them departed. Pity because they sold good, honest food – something of […]

Read More La Bella Vita

Had a really good student, Bella, here at the weekend. She was doing a basic Introduction to Sourdough course, so she did a couple of hours late Friday afternoon and about seven hours on Saturday. The results: Clockwise from bottom left: a beautifully slashed Classic, a 5 Seed with Spelt, a Pain de Campagne and […]

Read More Cheapest/Best Course in the UK?

Two amazing pieces of news today. The most astonishing: I saw my doctor today and he said my liver was fine (!!!???) Second, and this has kept me smiling all day, young Adam Newey is opening his shop in Camberwell tomorrow. What a star! 18 months after opening a microbakery in his flat, the Hill […]

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As you all know yesterday was 01 March and 01 March is St. David’s Day and St David (Dewi Sant) is the patron saint of Wales and I have lived in Wales for 30 years any day now. Ergo I had to invent a new “traditional” bread for the occasion or my customers might think […]

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After all these years of making bread, I never made a muffin. But I’m planning a TexMex birthday brunch for a few people next Sunday and Robb Walsh has a recipe for Huevos Benedictos where the Hollandaise Sauce takes on some chipotle and refried beans come into the equation. So I look for muffin recipes […]

Read More Have you seen the muffin, Man?