Life isn’t all baking weekends with chums, you know. There’s the day job to consider and Thursday was the day. Ben reminded me at the weekend I hadn’t done Seigle d’Auvergne for a very long time. Never mind your roast beetroots, pink peppercorns, nettles, etc, Seigle d’Auvergne reminds you what real bread (no, not Real […]

I knew something was afoot when Joe came through to the kitchen from the bakery and asked Maggie if she had an apple corer. I thought to myself, what’s he up to? I bet it’s nothing to do with apples. Next thing, back in the bakery, what’s he doing with jam in an icing bag […]

Well of course the answer had to be Bethesdabakin’ at Mair’s Bakehouse where John had the smartest motor home ever to descend that rutted mile-long track … … our hero Adam arrived to great applause after a twelve hour journey on the Hill Bakery delivery bike (follow that Domino Pizza) … … and, as well […]

What links a superior motor home a delivery bike over 200 miles from home a mass-escape of ferrets? Answers coming soon!

Still doing samples as part of a commission. But I got bored with 400g loaves where you end up with more dough on your hands than in the basket so I went for a 3K:

It’s always the same. You’ve got make a bunch of samples for someone, you’re under stress, you remember just in time that you have to decorate one with slices of onions, there are two different onion breads and you stick the slices on the cheese and garlic bread …. I suppose it could have been […]

This is why we make bread. Right now, as well as my regular slot with Gert (he’s doing Belgium next week …?), I’m doing a consultancy/product development thing for a baker on Anglesey who, ever since he swallowed a handful of black olives on a trip to Egypt thinking they were grapes, has loathed the […]

“I’ll have five of whatever you’re baking next week,” says Gert. “Anything at the back of your mind?” “Well, maybe something with onions. And maybe olives. And perhaps some rosemary.” “How about Onion, Olive & Rosemary Bread?”