January 2017 posts

Monday, 30 January 2017
Orange You Glad You Baked This? - BBBabes and BBBuddies (January 2017)
summary: January 2017 Bread Baking Buddies; BBB Fouace Nantaise gallery;

Monday, 16 January 2017
Dreaming of Orange Blossoms – Fouace Nantes (BBB January 2017)
summary: recipe for Fouace Nantaise, based on a recipe by Jamie Schler; orange blossom; yeast in the dead of winter; failure to learn from past mistakes; a Bread Baking Babes (BBB) project;

Happy New Year!

December 2016 posts

Saturday, 24 December 2016
The Season of Giving and Receiving
summary: Giving and receiving; spice of life; nutmeg;

Thursday, 22 December 2016
Orange Thyme Shortbread
summary: playing with a recipe for Lemon Thyme Shorbread to make Orange Thyme Shortbread; when you don’t have lemons, use oranges; homemade orange extract; Christmas baking;

Friday, 16 December 2016
Whoa!! That's Really Red Bread (BBB December 2016)
summary: recipe for Beet Challah; fear of sourdough and scary colours; expectations and realisations; a Bread Baking Babes project;

Wednesday, 7 December 2016
You win some - you lose some
summary: Wine and whine;

Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Eating from the book.... Karma beet and coconut soup
summary: recipe for Karma Beet and Coconut Soup, based on a recipe in the accompanying cookbook for Monica Bhide's novel, "Karma and the Art of Butter Chicken"; substitutions and/or additions; book review;

November 2016 posts

Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Eeeeek! ...porridge bread (BBB November 2016)
summary: recipe for Porridge Bread, based on a recipe in "The Village Baker" by Joe Ortiz; reading difficulties – again (still??); in spite of me, we have delicious bread once again; a Bread Baking Babes project;

Thursday, 10 November 2016
This year, we are the Smugs! (Cake Day)
summary: I love Cake Day; annual vinarterta making; disaster averted (not again!?!)

Thursday, 3 November 2016
Oatmeal Biscuits
summary: recipe for oatmeal biscuits based on a recipe in HomeBaking by Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford; they taste like graham crackers!