A look at easy to lower salt intake with alternative ingredients and a delicious low salt bread recipe
Tag Archives: Herbs
Using a flower press 🌸
How to use a flower press, which materials for blotting, how to select and place plants and ideas on crafts using your dried flowers, petals, leaves and herbs
Make a flower and herb press
How to make an effective, cheap and easy flower press yourself, just using two old placemats, some cardboard and a little ironmongery – you can have a working press within an afternoon
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 usedContinue reading “Flavoured salts – part one”
Hanging herb planter
How to make your own hanging herb planter – a crafty and quick DIY project for garden or kitchen
Garlicky, herby, cheesey, buttery ‘bookshelf’ bread for tearing and sharing
Garlicky, cheesey, herby, buttery ‘bookshelf’ bread just for tearing and sharing
Herb sprigs for the kitchen
Such a great way to use any herbs you have growing profusely in the garden at this time of year. They make a pretty, alternative tiny bouquet (especially if you use thyme or lavender when in flower – a bit early for my lavender yet). Also, as they hang in your kitchen, the heat fromContinue reading “Herb sprigs for the kitchen”
Focaccia with caramelised shallots
A basic focaccia with the addition of shallots, slowly caramelised in sugar and fig and date balsamic vinegar with rock salt and rosemary. Focaccia is a quintessential Italian bread and is reputedly thousands of years old, earlier than the Romans. It is traditionally round, although now you’ll see oval and square focaccia and would originallyContinue reading “Focaccia with caramelised shallots”