Archive for the ‘baking’ Category
Father and Daughter
Making banana cake… the girl shows promise!
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Summer Sourdough Breads
The weather really picked up in sunny Northern Ireland. We have spent the ‘good’ weekends eating barbecue and salad picked from the garden…bliss! The gooseberries, blackberries, raspberries and broad beans have been and gone (although the next wave of broad beans are just ready for picking ). I also have a years supply of [...]
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In: baking, vegetarian · Tagged with: baby, bread, family, garden
Daring Bakers: Croquembouche
The May 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump’s Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri. The recipes I used for the choux buns and the pastry cream were from the BBC good food [...]
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Chocolate Bread and Barbeque
It’s been a really great weekend, the weather was lovely and I managed to get quite a bit done in the vegetable patch. We also had the first barbeque of the year in the garden (including giant sirloin steaks from butchers extraordinaire … Orr’s of Holywood). Unfortunately its Monday now and I’m back at work [...]
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Daring Bakers: Suet Pudding
This is my first Daring Kitchen ‘challenge’ after reading about them in countless other blogs. The idea is that each month a member posts a recipe challenge (there are ‘cooking’ and ‘baking’ challenges) and everybody has a go and shares their successes and failures. It appealed to me as a way to try new ideas [...]
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In: baking, daring kitchen, recipes, suppers, vegetarian