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A sparkling water wholemeal loaf
Experimenting with wholemeal flour, sparkling water and no yeast to make a very nice loaf
Tomato flavoured sparkling water rolls
Made the carrot soup for Mike’s lunch today (I’m back on the diet and had something different), and some tomato flavoured rolls to go with it using the sparkling water loaf recipe from a few days ago. This time I used the same ingredients as for the stripped back loaf...
Lentil flour and the simplest bread I’ve ever made
I started off with lentil flour and ended up with a superb, no knead, no yeast loaf made with fizzy water, via beer bread
Recipes for yesterday’s baking – chapatti, muffins and a loaf
Chapatti To make a batch of chapatti, I used the recipe from the back of the sack of flour. Mix 300g of chapatti or wholemeal flour with enough cold water to make a stiff dough. They didn't say to add any salt, so I didn't. Knead for 3 or 4 minutes, place in a bowl,...
Fridge soup that’s Paleo, I think, an avocado smoothie and a breadcrumb topped crumble
low carb soup Still on my quest for nice things to eat on this high fat, now even more low carb, diet my coach has put me on, I thought I'd do some soup. I love soup and have it often. It suddenly occurred to me today that if I didn't put in my usual scoop of red...
Savoury flapjacks, fragrant with rosemary, caramelised onions and sweet chilli, 15p
Do you have a savoury flapjacks recipe? Really tasty. Great for a grab and go breakfast, good in lunch boxes too. Men in particular seem to like these
Using up mincemeat – Mince pies, Mincemeat Muffins, Mincemeat Brownies and Mincemeat Ice Cream
A few days ago, I made some mince pies for the U3A Christmas meeting. I had bought a new large jar of mincemeat, but then remembered I still had 2.5 jars of the same size left from last year. So I dug out one of those and used that. I made some oil pastry, then used...
Reverse Advent – batch two, a loaf and Spicy Apple Cake
Productive day today. Had a rummage in the loft for Reverse Advent, made a loaf, some soup and an apple cake. So going today are; a surplus masala tin; several more cardboard boxes that held appliances that won't need the box any more; an old sewing project that will...
Busy, busy and banana cake
I’m pretty tired right now. I’m doing the catering for the WI AGM lunch tomorrow for 40 people. Chicken casserole with mushrooms, carrots, onions and tomato, served with green beans and new potatoes. Followed by lemon pot, with fancy little biscuits and topped with...
Herby Scones, 2p a scone – Meal Plan 10
Delicious little herb flavoured savoury scones from meal plan 10
Now we’re talking! An extremely yummy quinoa burger version, and some raspberry muffins
Tea this evening was one of the Quinoa and Chickpea burgers from yesterday. I got some wholemeal rolls from the local Spar, on our way back from a day out. Definitely not frugal, £1.50 for 4! I made some hoummous using a tin of chickpeas, the remains of a jar of...