Experiments in weekday baking

Hurrah for the divine Nigel Slater: this soda bread recipe is a beauty, and quick enough for after-work baking. He has you cook it in a casserole dish with a lid, which sounds weird, but makes for a light, crisp crust. 

Mmmm.

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Holiday Breakfast - Sunday 25th July

Delight of delights: late breakfast in the garden. Homemade thyme bread and scrambled eggs on toast. Not a million miles from my daydream earlier this week...

In praise of beans on toast

These big fat juicy broad beans came in this week's veg box from Abel and Cole (our driver's name: Orville). I was stuck for ideas, until the Boy flippantly suggested dip.

Goldmine!

I blanched the wrinkly white beans in salty boiling water, then whizzed them up with olive oil, a splash of lemon and liberally seasoned with coarse ground black pepper and chilli flakes.

Perfect on a slice of toasted honey-and-ale bread, crafted by the Boy's own fair hands.

In Praise of the Kenwood Breadmaker BM250

Mmmm, currently filling the flat with the scent of freshly baked bread. Time for lunch ...