Yes, once again I have spent a lazy Saturday morning bread baking, blogsurfing and generally pottering around in a quiet and peaceful house. I’ve drunk copious amounts of coffee, played with my next door neighbour’s new puppy, Perfect. Yes that is really his name, short for Perfect Paradise Mark II. Mark [...]

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This is a very quick and easy loaf, enriched with a little butter and sugar and flavoured with cocoa powder and dark chocolate chips.  It is not as sweet as you might think, and is delicious as toast or with cream cheese or mascarpone as a snack.

Sift 3 cups of organic strong white flour (bread [...]

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Sift together

1 cup of organic plain (all purpose or cake) flour
1 T of vanilla caster sugar
1teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar

Drop into the centre

One large organic egg

With a wooden spoon slowly beat in

1 1/4 cups (185mls) of buttermilk
30g of butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon of orange blossom water

Heat your griddle pan and cook [...]

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Buying gifts for cooks is always an easy thing to do. You can never have too many kitchen gadgets, or too large a kitchen for that matter. Lately I’ve been incredibly lucky on the kitchen gift front and this morning I put one of those gorgeous gifts to good use. On a [...]

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While I’m all about new beginnings and good intentions, I’m reliably informed that this is the autobahn to hotter climes. I could do with a bit of heat right about now, but not the slippery slope kind. In all my 35 years I have learned one irrefutable fact. I never stick to [...]

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