I got a Magimix for my birthday and I am VERY VERY VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. I’ve run two food processors into the ground, and when my third started showing signs that the end was nigh, I decided that the…
Category: bread
Recipe: Lazy Overnight Pizza, and a Nearly-New-Years-Resolution
Hello! It’s been a long time again, hasn’t it? It isn’t that I haven’t been cooking (says she who baked mumble-several-hundred biscuits for Christmas this year and also co-hosted Christmas dinner with her brother, who was under the adorable delusion…
Recipe: Vegan Choc-Cross Buns with Tahini and Apricots
I take Easter, and particularly Good Friday, very seriously. It’s not just because of the sheer number of professional commitments I have around Easter (and Good Friday is pretty much the peak of these, as I tend to have a…
Recipe: Orange, Raisin and Spice Scones for a Christmas in the Sun
We had our work Christmas party today. Well, one of them. When you work with two highly sociable Divisions, you don’t just get one work Christmas party – I believe that my official count this year is a modest six,…
Recipe: Banana Buns (da DA, da-da-da!)
It’s not actually possible to say the phrase ‘banana buns’ without developing an attack of the Muppets, really. Seriously, try it. You’ll be humming the Muppet theme before you know it. Anyway. This recipe, like so many banana recipes, came…
Recipe: Sticky Apricot Cardamom Scrolls
After I made those cinnamon scrolls last week and bragged about them to the internet, I had a few requests for the recipe. Well, I can’t give you the recipe, because for once in my life, I was actually following…
Recipe: Spiced Rye Bread
This is based on a recipe for Heidelberg rye bread from Bread: The Universal Loaf, by Tamara Milstein. I was going to make the actual recipe, but first I found myself mostly out of molasses, so I had to use…
Recipe: Orange and Cranberry Marmalade Bread
This bread is a cross between several different recipes, necessitated by the fact that my pantry does not currently contain polenta and that it does contain both marmalade and orange powder, not to mention cranberries. Also, I like putting oats…
Recipe: Golden Snake Bread for Chinese New Year
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Apparently, the first week of work was rather more overwhelming than I expected, because while I felt totally fine at work, I was remarkably disinclined to cook when I got home each night this…
Recipe: Pizza Serafina (Sultana pizza)
I work in a Medical Research Institute, and the nature of research is that people travel a lot for their careers. My current Divisions include scientists and students from France, Germany, Switzerland, Algeria, China, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, The…