26 September 2023
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Over the last few months, my consumption of oven-ready pizzas has gone up. It’s not really much of a guilty secret. Pizza is a relatively complete meal in itself, they aren’t too pricey and it is very easy to prepare. … Continue reading
25 August 2021
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Today’s baking experiment was between loaves and rolls – four flat(ish) loaves.
11 January 2021
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I seem to be having a run on food posts. Apologies to those dieting this month but food is an important part of my daily life! Today I wanted to note the lovely cake Jane made yesterday – mincemeat upside … Continue reading
6 August 2020
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Some years ago, I was given a large, circular pizza stone. I haven’t made that many pizzas on it but I’ve turned out countless loaves of bread. You put it in the oven as it heats up and it sears … Continue reading
17 April 2020
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By ‘crusty’, I mean ‘whoops, that stayed in the oven a bit longer than I had intended’. By ‘bread’, I mean a loaf made of various flour like substances (bread flour, self-raising flour, polenta and gram flour). In other words, … Continue reading
9 April 2020
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I was at the supermarket this morning for a pre-Easter top up (Morrisons, Loughborough – a bit of queuing but not too long a wait at just after 9am this morning). Among other things, I did manage to get some … Continue reading
17 February 2020
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Over the weekend, I made an orange polenta cake following this recipe. I say following but I have to confess that I am using that term in (or beyond) its broadest sense. Not least, I didn’t have any oranges, so … Continue reading
1 February 2020
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This evening I’ve been cooking for a church lunch tomorrow, trying a recipe for ‘pizza spirals’ from a book I’ve got out of the library. Essentially: make a pizza dough, roll it out in a rectangle, top and then roll … Continue reading
13 November 2019
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Earlier this week, Jane cooked up a delicious pie with banana, pineapple, cherries and more. Jamaica? No, she wanted to… Appalling pun out of the way, it is more or less the recipe I learned from my mum as Jamaica … Continue reading
30 September 2019
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I seem to have been acquiring minor injuries today. First I pinched the skin on one arm while dragging an accordion box out of the loft (as you do) and then managed to touch the other bicep with the edge … Continue reading