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game pie

Try this tasty Game Pie

2017-03-12
By: Helen
On: 12/03/2017
In: Savoury

It’s British Pie Week #britishpieweek so I wanted to make a pie I had never made before, something a bit more challenging than an apple or gooseberry fruit pie (and anyway, it’s too early in the season for those), so I settled on a game pie. I have always liked pork and game pies and once had a really fabulous one that has stayed in my memory, still warm from the oven, from a butchers in Yorkshire. It was the same day that I bumped into Paul Hollywood, who was there to film a feature on the oldest sweetshop in the world. But that isRead More →

butternut squash, quinoa, radish and walnut salad

Another slightly interesting tasty salad – Butternut squash, quinoa, radish and walnut salad!

2016-05-31
By: Helen
On: 31/05/2016
In: Savoury

This is the next in my series of slightly interesting tasty salads (sits), which started with the Buckwheat, Mozzarella, Tomato and baby Spinach Salad. I know what you are saying “slightly interesting”! but hey I don’t want to oversell it and it is definitely tasty. At the moment, there is a lot growing in the garden, but very little actually ready to eat, in fact pretty much only radishes and chard. The chard I will leave for another day, but the punchy, pink, peppery radishes I wanted to do something with, as they can really perk up a dish. Butternut squash is really sweet andRead More →

Salad

Salad not cake!

2016-04-10
By: Helen
On: 10/04/2016
In: Savoury

I thought it was about time I featured something a bit more healthy, like a salad, and stayed away from the cakes and breads for a while. I know my jeans will thank me for this. I would also like to be a bit more adept at different types of salads and introduce a few new ingredients. I am starting gently and trying buckwheat, which I know is not exactly radical, but isn’t something I normally eat. It is actually really nice, not a strong flavour, but a little bit nutty and super easy to cook. If you haven’t tried it, I would definitely recommendRead More →

savoury chocolate biscuits with poppy seeds and cream cheese

Chocolate Biscuits for eating with Cheese!

2016-04-01
By: Helen
On: 01/04/2016
In: Savoury

Just when you thought you had eaten enough chocolate over Easter, here I am suggesting you eat your cheese with chocolate biscuits! Who would have thought that chocolate goes with cheese? Well, I wouldn’t, until I tried these savoury chocolate biscuits. They are really light and crumbly, almost like a chocolate shortbread, and then you get a kick from the paprika. I saved the recipe from the Bakery Bits Newsletter back in October last year and only got around to making them this week. Vanessa Kimbell recommends eating them with cheddar, but I couldn’t resist trying a soft cream cheese that contrasts with the delicate texture of theRead More →

carrot soup

Chase away “Blue Monday” blues with sunny carrot soup

2016-01-18
By: Helen
On: 18/01/2016
In: Savoury

Apparently it’s Blue Monday today, the most depressing day of the year. Thanks Ashley for pointing it out, I hadn’t realised! Whilst Ashley would no doubt recommend doing some healthy exercise, I think you can’t go wrong with a good wholesome home-made soup and what could be better than that tasty classic, carrot and coriander. Carrots are a really good source of beta-carotene, the antioxidant carotenoid that your body converts into vitamin A. I have read that carrots can help reduce cholesterol, prevent heart attacks, improve vision (although wasn’t that a myth, put about in World War II to get people to eat more carrots?), and reduce the signs of premature ageing. Also, carrotsRead More →

3 photos of hands stretching dough

Bread is magic!

2015-12-08
By: Helen
On: 08/12/2015
In: Savoury

I really love making bread, it is the complete transformation that occurs when you mix together such unpromising-looking ingredients as flour, water, yeast and salt. You knead it and it becomes something else completely, malleable and dough-like (couldn’t think of a more appropriate word, sorry). I like the process of stretching and pulling and pushing, it can be quite meditative. And the final loaf, risen, crusty and aromatic, is nothing like the dough that went into the oven, it’s like magic. It’s also nothing like most of the bread that you buy, it’s full of flavour and very satisfying. The only trouble is, it goesRead More →

beetroot bread

Pink Bread Disappointment!

2015-11-03
By: Helen
On: 03/11/2015
In: Savoury

Having lots of beetroot in the garden, and looking for a variation on my normal wholemeal bread, I found the recipe from the Bakery Bits Newsletter and made beetroot bread. It was a vibrant pink dough and still looked pink straight out of the oven. However, by the time we came to eat it, the pinkness had gone and it just looked like normal wholemeal bread with the odd fleck of colour in it. Even so, it was a nice moist loaf and very tasty, which is the point really. The image above left is the dough in the proving basket and to the right is when the bread hasRead More →

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