I know this is quite mad, but on the weekend, we made our own butter. There was half a litre of cream about to go off, so we turned it into unsalted beurre by beating it with a whisk until it split, and then whacking the resultant butter around on a board with gnocchi paddles [...]
What do you do when there doesn’t seem to be anything in the house to cook except frozen whole chickens? Make pizza of course. This is my current fave – very thin crusted potato pizza, with oregano, garlic oil, and the odd anchovy. No tomato sauce, no cheese.
Having jam and lemon curd in the house is a treat, because it lets you make so many other things!
Rhubarb and raspberry hazelnut friands
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts – in this case, rhubarb and raspberry jam tart…
… and lemon curd tart!
I discovered a recipe online for making lemon curd in the microwave. Unbelievable as it sounds, this works brilliantly. I’ve made five batches today – three of lemon curd, and two of passionfruit curd. Here’s the recipe for my microwave :
1. Zest and juice (strain the juice) two big lemons into a [...]
Had a small episode of baking mania and ended up with about ten dozen cookies. The first batch was the old fave, choc chips. The second batch of cookies was a very similar recipe with raisins and oats instead of choc chips. A nice change from the usual, made with the same, mixer free method. [...]
Spelt loaves :
Gluten-free peanut butter chocolate chip cookies for my friend Pete :
$10 bought us 1.5kg of strawberries at the markets on Friday.
$10 worth of strawberries = 9 serves of strawberries and icecream + 1 strawberry shortcake + two jars of small batch strawberry jam.
