Category: Kitchen tips & food advice

• Caring for your bannetons

  

  If you’re a keen bread baker you probably will have one or more proofing bannetons. These can actually represent quite a bit of financial outlay, if you’ve amassed a collection. The fact that they’re such useful and essential kit for a baker together with the financial investment does mean they need a little looking after.

  Ink Sugar Spice

  October 21, 2022

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food

  banneton, care, cleaning, couche, fermentation, liner, maintenance, proof, proofing, use

• Saving energy in the kitchen when bread and pasta making

  

  A few simple and sensible ideas to help when cooking bread and pasta to manage energy or maximise use of your oven/hob. A quick, low energy pasta recipe included.

  Ink Sugar Spice

  September 2, 2022

  Food, Frugal food, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice

  energy crisis, energy saving, frugal, hob, ideas, low cost, money, oven

• Eat positive: happy hormones and a fig focaccia recipe

  

  A look into how the four ‘happy hormones” can be positively affected by what and how you eat – and a gorgeous fig focaccia recipe using many of these great foods #realbread #mentalhealth #healthyfoods

  Ink Sugar Spice

  September 19, 2021

  Baking, Bread, Food, Herbs, Ingredient information, Lifestyle

  dopamine, endorphin, figs, focaccia, mental health, oxytocin, serotonin

• Reducing salt and low salt loaf recipe

  

  A look at easy to lower salt intake with alternative ingredients and a delicious low salt bread recipe

  Ink Sugar Spice

  June 4, 2021

  Baking, Bread, Food, Ingredient information

  health, Herbs, low salt, salt, salt intake, seaweed, seaweed flakes, sodium

• 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

  Ink Sugar Spice

  September 18, 2020

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food, Techniques

  basic, beginner, realbread, sourdough, sourdoughSeptember, starter, wild yeast

• 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

  Ink Sugar Spice

  May 17, 2020

  Food, Frugal food, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice, Pasta, Pasta information, Techniques

  egg pasta, formula, instructions, lockdown cooking, method, Pasta, pasta making, recipe

• 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

  Ink Sugar Spice

  April 16, 2020

  Baking, Bread, Bread information, Food, Frugal food, Ingredient information, Kitchen tips & food advice, Lunch

  a day in the life, a week, breadcrumbs, bruschetta, cheese on toast, covid-19, croutons, frugal, ideas, lockdown cooking, melba toast, pandemic, seven days, waste not

• Gnocchi

  

  How to make and cook delicious, pillowy gnocchi, a way to change up cooking with potatoes

  Ink Sugar Spice

  April 13, 2020

  All seasons, Food, Food skills, Italian, Pasta, Pasta information, Sides, Techniques

  cicchetti, frugal, gnocchi, lockdown cooking, potato, storecupboard

• 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

  Ink Sugar Spice

  April 9, 2020

  British, Cakes, Food, Frugal food, Fruit, Kitchen tips & food advice

  Filippo Berio, lockdown baking, olive oil, pantry, pineapple, store cupboard, tinned fruit