Pollo Ticuleno / Wholemeal Wheat Tortillas

First off, I found a recipe for wholemeal wheat tortillas made with whey on a whole grain milling site from Andrea at dearmark23.com. Her website is a bit scarily wholesome for me but I love her approach which is basically, this is what I would do, but if you don’t have this, use that. So, […]

Best Ever Pizza?

Seem to be having a productive time just now. Nan-e Barbari, a neat Irish stew using up scrag end that had been lurking in the freezer since before Christmas, a new wheat tortilla recipe (yet to be revealed), today’s Jamaican Easter Buns, and now, what I think is my best ever pizza. I mean there’s […]

JamBunz 2023

Jamaican Easter Buns – who needs crosses! Packed with spices of course. But the toffee-ish flavours come from Guinness, molasses, sugar and grated apple. Formula here This time I shaped and proved overnight in the fridge (about 10C), baked after an hour recovery time for 20 minutes – 250C top, 220 bottom in the Pico, […]

Nan-e Barbari

This bread recipe comes from The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook by Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez which I’ve had since it was published in 2015. The Hot Bread Kitchen is a New York bakery that trains immigrant women and, if they want to progress, helps them set up their own businesses. I am very fond of the […]

Huevos Rancheros Pizza

Bought my first Mexican cookbook in 1984 in a shopping precinct in Shepherds Bush that don’t exist any more. Around then there were a few approximate Mexican restaurants and a couple of TexMex places in London one of which, off the top of Charing Cross Road, was called “Borderline” or “Break for the Border” – […]

St Patrick 2023

First soda bread for years. Sort of followed Dan Lepard’s Waterford Soda Bread recipe from The Handmade Loaf with a few modifications. So it went: Wholemeal Wheat Flour 300gOats 50g (substituted for fine oatmeal)Butter 20gBaking Soda 1tspSalt ½tspSugar 1tspYoghurt 200g (substituted for buttermilk)Milk 200g I greased a shallow 8 inch cake tin with butter and […]

The White Welly Boys

Friday was Carrie Rimes’ birthday. It was also supposed to be the Grand Opening of Llaethdy Gwyn, Carrie’s new dairy, but a last minute four inches of snow meant that things had to be scaled back a bit. But the band played on. Excellent performance by Vri appearing, for contractual reasons, in heavy disguise as […]

Dewi Sant 2023

As you will be aware, 01 March is St David’s Day, Dydd Dewi Sant, patron saint of Wales. Wales’ national day and we don’t even get a public holiday (although Charlie boy is getting an additional one to have his crown fitted later in the year). This is what we call democracy. This year’s Focaccia […]

Unreal Bread @ 2K

Unreal? This is a 2 Kilo loaf of real bread. But it’s not Real Bread because that term (complete with capital letters) was appropriated by the Real Bread Campaign in, if I remember rightly, 2008 – a year after I set up my microbakery. Never mind your fancy stuff, this is the bread that really […]

Big Heart

Valentine’s 2023 Brioche Card Sparkle in the fridge …