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

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

Chilli salt grissini

An easy recipe for taper-thin, crispy grissini / bread sticks with chilli salt coating

Flavoured salts – part two

Four incredible salt mixes: Italian with dried tomato puree, French, Umami with dried @marmite (yes really!) and a pretty and unusual English Summer Sweet – all vegetarian. Part 2 of my salt mixes posts

Flavoured salts – part one

[updated] It’s all the food fashion at the moment it seems to have a pot of two of flavoured sea salt, with salt companies clambering over each other to bring them out. Take a look past the hype and you’ll see that salt mixes are exceptionally useful in the kitchen and can even be used

Homemade ricotta – and ways to enrich, flavour or infuse it

Simple homemade ricotta recipe, plus tips on how to infuse or add flavours to it or enrich it

Chemical leaveners / raising agents

My findings on chemical leaveners and what’s going on inside my cake (or other bake) to make it rise. Is there anything we can do to get the best results using raising agents? Plus make your own baking powder and self raising flour!

Nasturtium pickles

Make your own nasturtium capers – a recipe for a useful pickle that’s almost entirely free!