The most scrumptious bread whether you are GF/vegan or not. Perfect accompaniment to any meal, moist perfect bread to serve warm or cold, toasts like a dream and keeps for days. This recipe is adapted from the Doves Farm Bread Flour Packet recipe and relies on using their wonderful flour. Makes three loaves, one [...]
Great way to use up left over mincemeat in the new year! Make a simple white bread dough: 550gms strong white flour 12gms dried bread yeast (Doves Farm is my preference) 10gms salt 350gms/mls warm water Knead for 10 minutes (or let the kenwood do it for you) leave to rise 1hr in a warm [...]
Perfect comfort food for a blustery autumn day - simple and quick to make and always a winner with the family! Simply make some shortcrust pastry (as much as needed for number and size of apples) - double the weight of flour to butter (or marg), plus a pinch of salt and then a little water [...]
Just a classic spring lemon cake recipe with gorgeous zingy additions... Cream together: 8oz Sugar 8oz Non dairy marg (Koko is my favourite) 2tbsp Grated lemon zest Add: 8oz Plain flour 2tsps Baking Powder Beat in: Organ 8tsps whisked together with with 120ml water (or 4 eggs if you prefer) Then fold in chopped crystallised ginger - [...]
Oh ... that moment when someone walks in with an Ottolenghi radish & broadbean salad in a handmade stoneware bowl (thats they also made themselves!) as their lunch contribution
In January or February you will be able to buy ugly bitter Seville oranges that make the most exquisite marmalade from any good farm shop. Marmalade could not be simpler, I know people get worried about the setting point and so on but really when you know a couple of the secrets its the simplest [...]
Well I never! We were overwhelmed to be awarded Gold at the Devon Tourism Awards and were then selected to represent Devon in the Southwest Tourism Awards in February 2017. Much to our amazement we were awarded another GOLD award for Artistic, Cultural and Learning experience. What beautiful piece of Stuart Wiltshire hand blown glass [...]
RED WINTER SLAW Couldn't be easier and so tasty - this recipe is another of my all-week fridge staples in the winter when lettuce just feels too cold! 2 carrots grated 1 small red onion sliced 1 small red cabbage finely sliced 1 stick celery finely sliced dressing: 2 tbsp dijon mustard half a jar [...]
Buckwheat is not wheat at all and is gluten free. This is a substantial loaf, but sliced thinly is really very good and certainly beats shop bought gluten free offerings! Simply take 600gms of whole buckwheat and soak overnight in lots of fresh water, in the morning strain and rinse, then soak 200gms of milled [...]
Well if we were completely overwhelmed to be finalists at the Devon Tourism Awards, imagine how we are feeling right now to be finalists in the Artistic, Cultural and Learning Category at the South West Tourism Excellence Awards, to be held in Bristol in February 2017. We are nestled next to some of the best known [...]
