Arghhh banana bread. It's the fail-safe, comfort food breakfast favourite of almost everyone I know (unless you dislike bananas that is?! Do such people even exist?!). It's also number one on my 'procrastibaking' list, when the stresses of life get that little too much and all that will save me (or so I'm convinced!) is a healthy dose of cooking 'escapism' and the promise of baked goods. Yep, when I spy some bananas in our fruit bowl looking a little too 'tanned' shall we say, whipping us this banana bread is the ONLY acceptable solution. The loaf is... [ READ MORE ]
What do you do when you're generously gifted a beautiful 24 cm duck egg blue Chasseur French Oven from the team at Smudge Eats. Well you bake bread, don't you? Okay, so baking bread might not be the first thing that pops to mind when you're looking to christen a new cast iron pot - but it turns out they make for the perfect dutch oven. Now...bread and I are long term partners - you won't see me ever ditching my beloved sourdough, because life is way too short to not be able to relish in the smell... [ READ MORE ]
Arghh zucchini (or 'courgette' to our UK friends) - how you have my heart! Yes, the humble zucchini is a definite favourite vegetable of mine, so of course there was no second guessing our choice for the October #sageandseasonal feature. Zucchini also happens to work like magic in making baked goods (sweet or savoury) deliciously moist, and after trying a friend's savoury loaf on a recent glamping weekend (you can read all about that one here)...I was super keen to recreate a similar loaf using our beloved zucchini. I also happen to have the recipe for a mean Zucchini... [ READ MORE ]
I don’t know if it is just me but there is something just so damn comforting about baking (and eating) a loaf (of anything really!). Whether it be slicing into a crusty, sourdough boule; slathering housemade fruit bread with butter or one of my favourite loaves of all time…. freshly baked, warm banana bread. Hence, why one of the first recipes to be featured on this site, is just that. I have many versions of banana bread that I bake (new dedicated site idea perhaps?), but this gluten free version is perfectly justified as breakfast food (read: healthy),... [ READ MORE ]
BROWNNNNIESSSSS! Enough said right? Shall we just leave it there…? I think so. …No, only kidding! We need to gush a little more about the gooey, moist, chocolatey morsels of euphoria, we call brownies. The ultimate in comfort food! So you can’t really go wrong with brownies, they are the most perfect edible greeting card. ‘Sorry, I stuffed up’… ‘Will you help me move the couch?’…’You’re the best’… well you get the picture- suitable for any occasion (or just for everyday specialness!), unless of course your eating partner in crime does not like chocolate?! Are there really... [ READ MORE ]
