Snow, Bread and Boule! An Easy Artisan Weekly Make and Bake Rustic Bread Recipe The snow arrived in soft fluttering flakes and settled as fast as an uninvited guest at the tea-table! The light was bright and the snow-bound garden had that eerie muffled silence that the snow always brings with it. The Aga and fire were lit,…
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Twelfth Night, Epiphany and Delicious Bread! King Cake: Rosca de Reyes (Recipe)
Twelfth Night, Epiphany and Delicious Bread! King Cake: Rosca de Reyes (Recipe) Regular Lavender and Lovage readers may remember that I entered a baking contest recently here: La Rosca de Reyes (King Cake) ~ For a Spanish Inspired Christmas & New Year, sadly I didn’t win, you can’t win them all, but I did come in as…
Think Pink! Real Bread: Beetroot and Walnut Bread Rolls Recipe
Think Pink! Real Bread: Beetroot and Walnut Bread Rolls Recipe Real bread……that most elemental of all foods, the smell is homely, comforting, enticing, warm and yeasty……it’s the staff of life, the essential vehicle for beans, cheese, ham as well as being the ideal accompaniment to soups, stews and casseroles. How is “real bread” defined? The…
Day Eight on the Advent Calendar: Christmas Trees and Bacon, Cheese & Garlic Fougasse Recipe
Day Eight on the Advent Calendar: 8th December: Christmas Trees and Bacon, Cheese & Garlic Fougasse Recipe It’s time to talk trees, Christmas trees…….real trees or faux trees, what’s you preference? I have always loved a real Christmas tree, and avalanches of needle drop have never really bothered me – the smell and “presence” of…
Day Five on the Advent Calendar and Mini Cheese, Cranberry and Walnut Scones Recipe
Day Five on the Advent Calendar: Mini Cheese, Cranberry and Walnut Scones Recipe Day Five on the Advent Calendar: 5th December: Today is day five on the Lavender and Lovage Advent Calendar and what an appropriate window to open, and find a nutcracker, as my recipe today is Mini Cheese, Cranberry and Walnut Scones. I have to admit…
Lincolnshire Plum Bread: A Fabulous Festive Fruit Bread and Random Recipe
Lincolnshire Plum Bread: A Fabulous Festive Fruit Bread and Random Recipe One of the comments I see lots of new bloggers saying over and over again, is how do they get noticed and generate comments as well as engage with the rest of the blogging community on their blogs; well, I felt just the same…
The Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking – Day Three: Eggs and Egg in a Nest: WW2 Mock Fried Egg Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking – Day Three: Eggs and Egg in a Nest: WW2 Mock Fried Egg Recipe Today is day three of my Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking challenge, and today is all about eggs. Yesterday was a vegetarian day for us, and I made a rather tasty Woolton Pie, you can…
Milk Fadge: Emergency Bread (No Yeast) Recipe
This Milk Fadge Bread recipe makes a lovely textured bread with no yeast needed. It slices well once it is cold, making it perfect for sandwiches and toast. Milk Fadge – No-Yeast Bread Even with a well stocked store cupboard like mine (keep scrolling for my list), I can be let down. So when I…
Apple Day, Victorian Orchards and Apple & Dorset Blue Vinny Scone Bread Recipe
Apple Day, Victorian Orchards and Apple & Dorset Blue Vinny Scone Bread Recipe Today is Apple Day in the UK, a day to celebrate our home-grown apples and cherish them…….the day was first started in 1990 by Common Ground in Covent Garden. The following year it launched nationwide with over 50 events ranging from apple road-shows …
Sepia Saturday, Log Fires and Old-Fashioned Granny Loaf (Egg-Free and Fat-Free) Recipe
Sepia Saturday, Log Fires and Old-Fashioned Granny Loaf (Egg-Free and Fat-Free) Recipe Sepia Saturday, Log Fires and Old-Fashioned Granny Loaf (Egg-Free and Fat-Free) Recipe This week’s Sepia Saturday is all about National Baking Week, which runs from the 15th to the 21st October in the UK; this year’s campaign, 2012, is synonymous with Britishness: Queen’s Diamond…
Trains, Sandwiches and British Egg Week: French Egg & Tomato Breakfast Tartine with Lovage
Trains, Sandwiches and British Egg Week: French Egg & Tomato Breakfast Tartine with Lovage Someone once said “It is better to travel well, than to arrive”; a common saying that is often attributed to Buddah, although it probably originated from a quote taken from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “El Dorado”….. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive”…
Weekly Meal Plan and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days – Creamy Garlic Mushrooms on Toast (190 Calories)
Weekly Meal Plan and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days – Creamy Garlic Mushrooms on Toast – (190 Calories) One of the things I miss when I am on one of my low-calorie days (Fast Day) on the 5:2 diet is something “on toast”…….I am terribly British in my love of anything on…
Scandinavian Smoked Salmon & Scrambled Egg Breakfast Wraps
It’s Friday and that means Fish on Friday, and today my post is an easy, in fact just made and devoured, breakfast wrap; made with some “Square” wraps that were sent to me as part of a small selection of Warburtons product samples. I was sent a selection of bread samples from the famous British bakery a…
Organic September & Seasonal Family Recipes – Chicken Pie, Strawberry French Toast & Soup with Cheese Toasties
Organic September & Seasonal Family Recipes – Chicken Pie, Strawberry French Toast & Soup with Cheese Toasties – When I was approached by Sainsbury’s recently and asked if I would like to participate in the Organic September event, which is being run by the Soil Association, I was delighted to accept the challenge. Organic is always the way to…
Sepia Saturday – Seventy Years of Baking with Be-Ro: Raspberry Cheesecake Muffins
Sepia Saturday – Seventy Years of Baking with Be-Ro: Raspberry Cheesecake Muffins It’s Saturday and that can only mean one thing, it’s my weekly Sepia Saturday post, where I attempt to bake my way through seventy years of Be-Ro cookbooks! For those of you who don’t know what Be-Ro is, or what I am talking about when I mention Be-Ro cookbooks, below…
