Wha’d’ya mean what are they supposed to be? Rabbits. Easter Bunnies. Taste good for breakfast. Raisin Challah dough substituting mixed preserved fruits – 50% white/50% wholemeal. Thanks to Luisa Jane Rusconi and Maruska Riva for inspiration.

It was supposed to be a two-strand turban: But I made a bit of an arse of it:

Used the last of the current batch of Carrie Rimes’ cheese on a couple of Green Grape & Brefu Bach Focacce- she finally got one to call her own. Can’t tell you how good it is to have raw materials of this quality on hand. You’d have to go to France to get anything like […]

Back to pizza with the Brefu Bach. One of our favourites: caramelised leek and mushroom + a splash of cream. I think this is my favourite of the brefu bach series so far – the flavour really comes through and enhances the already good combination of leek and mushroom (+ a small amount of cold […]

Got the grapes for focaccia: One side Brefu Bach and green grapes; + on the left a few squirts of pomegranate molasses. Not very pretty but this is just just an experiment. More important, the pomegratate molasses overwhelmed the cheese whereas the full wonderful taste of Brefu Bach came through with just the grape. It […]

One of the best things that happened last year was making contact with Carrie Rimes at the Caernarfon Food Festival. Carrie – http://www.cosyn.cymru/en/home/ – doesn’t just make cheese, she makes it from ewes’ milk and it wins awards. So when she phones up and asks if I could use some over-ripe Brefu Bach I have […]

Or, how to get rid of customers. That is, teach them to bake. Steffi has been a good friend and neighbour to us for ten years and finally came round to check out the bread baking aroma that wafts from our windows for an Introduction to Sourdough Course. In addition to the usual Pain de […]

Sue giving me that “don’t-play-with-your-camera-at-the-table” look (fabulous lunch she cooked): Legs, guardian of the Western defences: Two birthday people at Bethesdabakin’ 5 in 2011. Nina’s birthday yesterday: Jeremy, birthday today:Gert, over from the Netherlands at lunch on Sunday. Gert hosted us for a Bethesdabakin’ Lite in Caernarfon a few years back and bought loads of […]

This was all started by that Jay Butters. He sidled up to me like a dodgy salesman at my birthday party (why yes, it was my 70th birthday the other week, I though you knew?) and muttered out of the side of his mouth, “Can I interest you in a cloche?”, “A what?”, “A cloche. […]

Nothing to worry about. It’s our old friend Pane Pugliese: And it’s the eighth anniversary of the blog …