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Base sourdough recipe
My base recipe for sourdough loaves – it’s a robust recipe that you can learn and then begin to adapt and improve with… Continue reading Base sourdough recipe
Blueberry muffins
A proper blueberry muffin: springy and tasty and packed with seasonal fruit… Continue reading Blueberry muffins
My ‘best’ pizza dough – with a garlic bread recipe
My ‘best’ pizza dough recipe – makes truly fantastic pizza bases or garlic breads, plus a recipe for two garlic bread toppings… Continue reading My ‘best’ pizza dough – with a garlic bread recipe
Egg pasta dough – pasta all’uovo
Full instructions and images for egg pasta dough, plus some hints and tips including being frugal/replacement ingredients for lockdown cooking… Continue reading Egg pasta dough – pasta all’uovo
A week in the life of a loaf
A week in the life of a loaf -how to make the most of your bread day by day (whether you’ve made or bought it) plus some additional ideas… Continue reading A week in the life of a loaf
Gnocchi
How to make and cook delicious, pillowy gnocchi, a way to change up cooking with potatoes… Continue reading Gnocchi
Store cupboard pineapple upside down cake
A store cupboard staple – use up a tin of pineapple and swap butter for olive oil to make this lovely pineapple upside down cake… Continue reading Store cupboard pineapple upside down cake
New to baking? Simplest yeasted bread
Back to basics recipe and technique (including videos). How to make a very simple loaf/your first loaf. Also ideas to change your loaf to stop food wastage – new on Inksugarspice 💚 … Continue reading New to baking? Simplest yeasted bread
Sourdough flatbreads
These are my gorgeous, tangy flatbreads but they do take some commitment as they are fully sourdough, with a pre-ferment stage. I’ve been making sourdough since 2001… I was already making bread by hand for many, many years before this, but started as my twin baby sons began weaning. I was a little obsessed with… Continue reading Sourdough flatbreads
Blood orange pain d’epices
A pain d’epices loaf cake made with blood oranges and heart healthy olive oil… Continue reading Blood orange pain d’epices
Christmas cookie swap: festive caraway and cinnamon biscuit recipe
Warmly spiced Christmas biscuits, ideal for gifting and sharing. Flavoured with four spices, vanilla, orange zest and using black treacle and olive oil… Continue reading Christmas cookie swap: festive caraway and cinnamon biscuit recipe
Pumpkin rolls
Pumpkin shaped and pumpkin flavoured – bring a little autumnal creativity to your table with these delicious rolls… Continue reading Pumpkin rolls
Cider and rye rolls
Roll with it! Out of the ordinary rye and cider bread roll recipe – great as burger buns or for picnics… Continue reading Cider and rye rolls
Chocolate-hazelnut spread sandwich biscuits
Delicious, pretty and deceptively easy chocolate-hazelnut spread sandwich cookies… Continue reading Chocolate-hazelnut spread sandwich biscuits
Pesto and vine tomato schiacciata
Schiacciata bread recipe with vine tomatoes and pesto… Continue reading Pesto and vine tomato schiacciata
Chilli salt grissini
An easy recipe for taper-thin, crispy grissini / bread sticks with chilli salt coating… Continue reading Chilli salt grissini
Mini Easter egg biscotti
Wonderful cookies to give as gifts or just for scoffing: these mini egg biscotti are perfect for Easter treats 🥚🍪🐥… Continue reading Mini Easter egg biscotti
Pikelets with balsamic strawberries
Pikelets (also called drop scones or American pancakes) with balsamic strawberries – a real treat for Pancake Day … Continue reading Pikelets with balsamic strawberries
Flavoured salts – part two
Four incredible salt mixes: Italian with dried tomato puree, French, Umami with dried @marmite (yes really!) and a pretty and unusual English Summer Sweet – all vegetarian. Part 2 of my salt mixes posts … Continue reading Flavoured salts – part two
Nine top tips on artful bread scoring
My nine top tips on making beautiful scored patterns and art on your bread… Continue reading Nine top tips on artful bread scoring
Strawberry yogurt cake with olive oil
Strawberry deliciouness in a dessert cake which is enriched with yogurt and heart-healthy olive oil. A perfect Valentine’s bake ❤️🍓 … Continue reading Strawberry yogurt cake with olive oil
Bread shapes: making at home
A look at the most commonly created bread shapes… Continue reading Bread shapes: making at home
Flavoured salts – part one
[updated] It’s all the food fashion at the moment it seems to have a pot of two of flavoured sea salt, with salt companies clambering over each other to bring them out. Take a look past the hype and you’ll see that salt mixes are exceptionally useful in the kitchen and can even be used… Continue reading Flavoured salts – part one
Thai flavours parsnip soup
A warming, gently spicy thick vegetarian soup brimming with Thai flavours… Continue reading Thai flavours parsnip soup
Stencilled beer cob
Stencilled cob loaf – a recipe for a beer bread cob loaf, plus how to stencil bread and a free medieval sun face stencil to create a gorgeous loaf… Continue reading Stencilled beer cob
Sticky crumble topped gingerbread
Searching for a gingerbread recipe can be a bit confusing – for a start gingerbread can be a rich loaf cake, a pain d’epices, or it can be a crisp biscuit for gingerbread houses or little iced biscuits (see my own recipe for Gingerbread foxes). This is neither! Inspired in part by Grassmere gingerbread (a… Continue reading Sticky crumble topped gingerbread
Honey, orange and hazelnut biscuits 🐝
Iced honey, orange and hazelnut biscuit recipe 🐝 – plus how to make a hexagon stencil with just simple geometry and a compass… Continue reading Honey, orange and hazelnut biscuits 🐝
Lavender and Lovage – book review 📖
Lavender and Lovage – cookbook review 📖 “By interleaving smaller stories and anecdotes between the recipes, Karen’s woven a holistic, beautiful book, where the recipes only make full sense with the voice, and vice versa”… Continue reading Lavender and Lovage – book review 📖
Savoury brioche
Try these beautiful, fluffy savoury brioche batch rolls with a caramelised onion and mature cheddar filling… Continue reading Savoury brioche
“Mothers ruin” chutney
Mothers ruin chutney – a gorgeous recipe for a gin soaked, green tomato pickle that’s perfect to use up those unripened fruits this autumn… Continue reading “Mothers ruin” chutney
