M is train obsessed. So it was a given that his birthday cake would be Thomas. Mummy baked two square cakes, bought the appropriately coloured icing and left Daddy to it. The design and preparation was thorough, to say the least, painstaking attention given to each detail. The construction meticulous until finally, after many hours, [...]
Friday night pizza used to involve a phone call and a 20. Now it involves some fresh dough, an oven and 3 pairs of hands. We have a system that means perfect pizza in less time than it takes the delivery guy to arrive. I make up the dough at 5:30 and leave it for [...]
I’m back into foccacia. I have made it for a few different occasions and each time it goes down a treat. Two different varieties, one plain and one with garlic and rosemary infused oil (topped with some fresh rosemary so we can identify the two). Then cut into strips and served with a bowl of [...]
Here they are (at last, at last), my sausage rolls. I made these for an international pot luck dinner. The idea was to bring a dish from your country. Suggestions included lamingtons, vegemite sandwiches, meat pies and chocolate crackles. In the end the sausage rolls won out …. Here they are. They actually turned much [...]
Fennel, onion, semi-dried tomatoes, ham and olives. Fennel is particularly lovely roasted on pizza!
I discovered today that if you make your standard pizza dough recipe, and fry it, you can make a reasonable facsimile of Indian flatbread. Pete and I rolled it very flat onto parchment paper (you need lots of flour everywhere), then turned it into an unoiled nonstick pan. After a few seconds you can pull [...]
Rolls for small boy to take on camp. Sourdough, long overnight rise. Dough was shaped into a log, and then cut into rolls, and allowed to rise again for about 45 mins. Made with Kevin’s wonderful bread flour (now the “house” standard).
My friend Sue gave me her wonderful fish pie recipe. It’s full of tuna, salmon, eggs and cheese, and tastes truly fine.
