Category: Summer

• 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

  Ink Sugar Spice

  July 5, 2020

  Baking, Bread, Food, Herbs, Italian, Summer, Vegetarian

  garlic bread, pizza, sourdough, starter

• Pikelets with balsamic strawberries

  

  Pikelets (also called drop scones or American pancakes) with balsamic strawberries – a real treat for Pancake Day

  Ink Sugar Spice

  March 3, 2019

  All seasons, Baking, Breakfast, British, Dessert, Food, Fruit, Spring, Summer

  balsamic vinegar, clotted cream, drop scones, featured, olive oil, Pancake Day, pancakes, pikelets, Shrove Tuesday, strawberries, strawberry

• 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

  Ink Sugar Spice

  February 16, 2019

  All seasons, Food, French, Herbs, Ingredient information, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice, Preserves & creams, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Summer, Vegetarian

  drying, French, Herbs, Italian, marmite, preserving, puree, recipe, rock salt, salt, salt mix, sea salt, smoked salt, tomato, Vegetarian

• 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 ❤️🍓

  Ink Sugar Spice

  February 1, 2019

  Baking, Cakes, Dessert, Food, Fruit, Patisserie, Spring, Summer

  cake, Celebration, featured, olive oil, sponge, strawberry, Valentines, yogurt

• 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 […]

  Ink Sugar Spice

  January 29, 2019

  All seasons, Food, Herbs, Ingredient information, Kitchen tips & food advice, Preserves & creams, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Summer

  accompaniments, Asian-style, black salt, chilli, fine salt, fleur-de-del, Herbs, Himalayan rock salt, rock salt, salt, salt mix, salt recipe, sel gris, spices

• Lean pasta sauce – Salsa magro

  

  Salsa magro, or lean sauce. A delicious, unusual tomato based sauce – adapted for modern kitchens from a late 1800s recipe

  Ink Sugar Spice

  August 10, 2018

  All seasons, Food, Food history, Italian, Kitchen tips & food advice, Lunch, Main meals, Pasta, Preserves & creams, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Summer, Vegetarian

  anchovies, mushroooms, pasta sauce, salsa, sauce, tomato, tomatoes

• Pesto and roasted butternut squash dip

  

  Tasty vegetarian pesto and butternut squash roasted dip, that’s easy to make

  Ink Sugar Spice

  March 4, 2018

  Autumn, Food, Italian, Picnic, Sauces, pastes, accompaniments, Sides, Starters, Summer, Vegetarian

  butternut, chilli, dip, garlic, olive oil, paprika, pesto, roasting, squash, Vegetarian

• Blueberry and thyme muffins

  

  Try these delicious blueberry and thyme muffins, the recipe is less sweet than usual, with less sugar and some honey and yogurt #InkSugarSpice

  Ink Sugar Spice

  February 18, 2018

  All seasons, Baking, British, Cakes, Food, Fruit, Summer

  blueberries, Breakfast, Cakes, cases, little cakes, muffins, thyme

• Summer season baked nectarine cheesecake with a biscuit and pink peppercorn base

  

  Summer season nectarine baked cheesecake with a biscuit and pink peppercorn base

  Ink Sugar Spice

  July 16, 2017

  Baking, Cakes, Dessert, Food, Fruit, Patisserie, Summer

  baked cheesecake, Baking, cheesecake, cream, cream cheese, desserts, nectarines, peppercorns