Making friends across the globe has been one of the many pleasures of taking part in Angie’s Fiesta Friday events, friends who inspire me to try out new things – I even went as far as cooking for Elaine of Foodbod fame! Imagine! – as well as learning from them how to do things better.…
After the excesses of the last weeks (cake! bun! more cake!) I thought I’d give you a break and preach sourdough instead. Especially as it is Real Bread Week, an annual celebration of real bread run by the charity Sustain. Their aim is to get people to take their bread more seriously, either by becoming…
I got so cross at a comment in this month’s BBC Good Food magazine that I simply had to respond with a rant. Oh no, not again! some of you will think. And rightly so – after all, it’s my first time co-hosting Angie’s weekly Fiesta Friday party, and the last thing you need is…
A few weeks ago I finally got round to making my first pretzels, a staple of Swabian bread baskets, the race was on to produce proper breakfast rolls. Now, I won’t lie, we don’t have rolls every morning for breakfast. But we could have, if we wanted to: every other street has an independent baker who…
Pretzels and bagels, it seems, are quite closely related: both are given a particular and highly symbolic shape, and they are also boiled prior to baking. But when I came across Irina’s beautiful post about obwarzanki, the twisted breads sold in Krakow during Lent, I knew I was onto something promising … Obwarzanki are a…
Pretzels clearly are the puffer fish of baking – not only can you get killed making them, thanks to the use of lye or caustic soda, but even eating them is not without hazards, as George W Bush’s near-death experience with a pretzel has shown. But don’t fear – these ones are not only completely harmless but…
I have been dying to give these a try – and they were well worth it! If you don’t have a tortilla press it’s a tad time consuming, so bear that in mind (It took me a good hour to roll them all out … never mind cooking them!). Once cooked you can keep them…
I love Mexico: the Cookbook‘s matter-of-fact style: each recipe comes with the minimum or decorum: a list of ingredients, the method, sometimes a picture, that’s it. For someone familiar with Mexican culture and cuisine, that’s all they need. But sometimes a headnote would not go amiss, as in the case of her Rosca de Reyes, or ‘King’s Ring’, the…
Over the last few weeks, my friend Marta has been posting about a whole range of delicious breads which she made using cast-iron casserole pots. Obviously I really like Marta, but what I don’t like is her beating me on what I consider to be my turf. Like bread. Not to be outdone, I quickly got…
Although I had never heard of Stir Up Sunday before, the idea greatly appealed to me: traditionally the last Sunday before Advent was used in Britain to make the Christmas pudding. The family would gather and each member would get their turn stirring the pudding. With the advent of convenience food, however, this tradition is…
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