Caring for your bannetons

If you’re a keen bread baker you probably will have one or more proofing bannetons. These can actually represent quite a bit of financial outlay, if you’ve amassed a collection. The fact that they’re such useful and essential kit for a baker together with the financial investment does mean they need a little looking after.

Saving energy in the kitchen when bread and pasta making

A few simple and sensible ideas to help when cooking bread and pasta to manage energy or maximise use of your oven/hob. A quick, low energy pasta recipe included.

Eat positive: happy hormones and a fig focaccia recipe

A look into how the four ‘happy hormones” can be positively affected by what and how you eat – and a gorgeous fig focaccia recipe using many of these great foods #realbread #mentalhealth #healthyfoods

Reducing salt and low salt loaf recipe

A look at easy to lower salt intake with alternative ingredients and a delicious low salt bread recipe

Base sourdough recipe

My base recipe for sourdough loaves – it’s a robust recipe that you can learn and then begin to adapt and improve with

Egg pasta dough – pasta all’uovo

Full instructions and images for egg pasta dough, plus some hints and tips including being frugal/replacement ingredients for lockdown cooking

A week in the life of a loaf

A week in the life of a loaf -how to make the most of your bread day by day (whether you’ve made or bought it) plus some additional ideas

Gnocchi

How to make and cook delicious, pillowy gnocchi, a way to change up cooking with potatoes

Store cupboard pineapple upside down cake

A store cupboard staple – use up a tin of pineapple and swap butter for olive oil to make this lovely pineapple upside down cake