Filo pastry #1

Red onion, chestnut, fennel & feta 

filo pastry pie

Cake Wednesday

Chocolate courgette cake

Homemade wholemeal rye bread with fennel seed

A little dense, but YUM!

200g strong wholemeal flour

200g rye flour

250 ml water

1 tbsp honey

2 tsp yeast

fennel seeds

sea salt

oats

18 months later ...

An update to the nettle beer/wine experiment ...

started back in May last year (see here)

So, it turns out, if you leave it about 18 months

nettle wine is actually quite drinkable - 

rather 'herbal', albeit, but ...

not unpleasant and patience prevails!

Baba ganoush

Apricot & ginger scones

Beetroot experiments #1

Saffron (for which read turmuric) buns

Whilst recently in St. Ives, I discovered 'saffron buns', 

a Cornish delicacy ...

... yum!

Following a quick Google, turns out to be a Swedish delicacy too

Here's my 'budget' version, substituting turmeric for saffron

based-ish on a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipe for pulla bread

180ml milk

50g butter

120g sugar

shake of sea salt

1 tbsp turmeric

1 tbsp cinnamon

1 egg

300g bread flour

140g plain flour

2 tsp yeast

Filling comprises:

50g brown sugar

50g butter

sultanas

orange peel

1 tbsp cinnamon

Country wine

The last of the parsnip wine ... 

 The start of the blackberry wine ...

Last of the lazy days