Kitchen projects: Sourdough bread from start(er) to finish
For National Bread Week – as I’m a little late for Sourdough September! – I’m revisiting a post that I first wrote on 1 March, 2013. It’s always a good time for real bread. There are...
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Read: Ten years of eating and writing – and English Muffins on Irish Country Living
This time ten years ago, I was living in New Zealand. I was still getting to know the Kiwi, his multitudinous family and a whole new country, I was also recovering from a fractured...
Chocolate Nut Swirls and Bread on the Table by Valerie O’Connor
I have measured out my life with homemade breads. From “helping” my mother make brown soda loaves on Saturday mornings, through to my teenaged attempts at yeast baking with orange and raisin scrolls, coming...
Cinnamon Rolls from On The Track Lodge in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds
Think Cinnamon Rolls. Sweetly spiced, fragrant Cinnamon Rolls. Now think about walking for five hours through the New Zealand bush and arriving, just a little hot, sweaty and footsore, at On The Track Lodge...
Homemade burger buns
While it hasn’t exactly been a barbeque summer, we’ve still taken every opportunity to have homemade burgers, especially since I got this recipe licked. While the burgers – be they thick, meaty beef ones, large flat...
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
It’s January. Time for just a little indulgence. Yes, I know that we’re all supposed to be on a hair-shirt-fun-free-detox-diet but on a dark, dreary school/work morning it’s no harm at all to have...
Easter baking: Spiced Hot Cross Buns with Chocolate Chips
When I lived in New Zealand I fell in love with Kiwi-style Hot Cross Buns. That is, HCBs with chocolate chips which, far from being an aberration as I thought at first, are Very...
Pizza for lunch: Pizza dough recipe
In our house we really like pizza, especially when the parents aren’t about and the cottage turns into the Sunday lunch stop for the Sister, Little Sister and Small Brother. It’s easy to make the dough and sauce ahead of time, leaving the final assembly for when everybody turns up. That way they also get to choose their own toppings, which keeps everybody happy. This is how it works: