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Posted on 21st November 202021st November 2020

Sourdough walnut bread

Baked walnut bread loaf, hot off the oven

We used to buy loaves of walnut bread from the Fabrique bakery nearby… and I say “we used to” because through trial and error I have developed a recipe which produces loaves that are even tastier than theirs. So we won’t buy this anymore!

Sorry, Fabrique! We still buy your cardamon buns (for now 😏).

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Posted on 17th November 2019

Sourdough masterclass with Dan Lepard at Little Portland Street Cookery School

Small sourdough loaves

I attended a fabulous bread making class last Sunday, with none other than Dan Lepard.

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Posted on 23rd September 201813th November 2019

The many fountains of Italy

Fountain in Viterbo

Italy in August: it will quite probably be HOT! ??

So, when we were visiting these beautiful towns and gardens under the fiery sun, the sight of a fountain was nothing short of a celebration!

Drawing of mercury pouring out of a thermometer because it's very hot
Il mercurio! Exclusive extract from my sketchbook ??

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Favourite Spanish recipes

Tapas / Starters
  • Hígado con picada (livers with garlic sauce)
  • Patatas asadas con pimentón (roasted potatoes with paprika)
Mains
  • Paella (traditional from Valencia)
  • Borreta (rice based mountain winter stew)
  • Pimientos rellenos / Bajoques farcides (peppers stuffed with rice)
  • Lentejas (lentil stew)
  • Coca de tomaca (tomato sauce flatbread)
  • Coca de Fira (calorific thick flatbread)
  • Arroz con acelgas (Rice with Swiss Chard): a soupy rice
  • Arròs de mescleta (mixed rice): rice with lots of beans
  • Arroz al horno con pasas y garbanzos / arròs al forn amb panses i cigrons (oven baked raisin and chickpea rice)
  • Roasted artichokes
  • Tortilla de garbanzos (chickpeas omelette)
  • Plato de verano (summer's dish)
  • Bollit / hervido (boiled vegetables)
  • Carrot and potato soup
Desserts & sweets
  • Pa de Sant Antoni - sweet buns and sourdough savoury version
  • Bollos de Sant Blai (Saint Blaise's buns) - sweet flat buns
  • Coca de llanda - sweet, sweet sponge
  • Mona de Pascua - Easter bun
  • Horchata de chufas / horchata valenciana (tiger nut based, very refreshing drink)
  • Horchata de pipas de melón (melon seeds horchata)
  • Sant Dionís sweets for 9 d'Octubre (la Mocaorà) - fruit shaped marzipan
  • Macedonia de otoño (Autumn fruit salad)
  • Fogassa d'Ontinyent - enriched sweet bun with nuts and raisins
  • Carquinyols / casquinyols (Valencian style biscotti)

Trips

  • Lanzarote (2015)
  • Italy - Tuscia and Rome (2018)
  • Japan (2019)
  • Sardinia (2022)
  • Mosel valley (2023)

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