March 30, 2020, 11:32 am
This gingerbread recipe is great for using up the falling heat in your wood fired oven after you've cooked something else at a higher heat. It's very straightforward and the ingredients are pretty much storecupboard ones so nothing too difficult to find. It also keeps very well and in fact…Read more »
March 25, 2020, 2:57 pm
A great ciabatta is a marvellous thing - a crispy outside with an airy, light internal crumb ready to stuff with your favourite fillings. Check out how David makes our ciabatta in this week's video and do try it at home; a perfect project for your wood fired cooking for…Read more »
March 23, 2020, 10:49 am
Even though I’m writing this in the middle of the Coronavirus outbreak with everyone hopefully self-isolating, Nature knows Spring is here. Despite the virus, the plants and trees are bursting with new growth and there's foraging to be done particularly of wild garlic and then lots to do with it…Read more »
March 20, 2020, 2:08 pm
Having really enjoyed the wood fired Sicilian pizza (Sfincione) we made a few weeks ago (do check that out here), this time we've gone off piste a little with no anchovies (whaaaaatt!!) and a wholemeal dough base. Really delicious as proved by the fact there was barely any left. Here's…Read more »
March 4, 2020, 11:11 am
A dog as we know is not just for Christmas ... and neither is a sprout! Available right through from September until March (if you're lucky) these little beauties from Brussels are extremely under-rated and should, we feel, be championed in all their glory outside the festive season. Despite in…Read more »
March 4, 2020, 9:55 am
Sicilian Pizza, or Sfincione, is a great way to serve pizza to a crowd without having to endlessly bake super thin Neapolitan pizzas. Fun as a Neapolitan making session is, sometimes you just have to feed a crowd quickly and there's no better way to do it than with a…Read more »
March 2, 2020, 12:01 pm
Despite the generally foul weather, when your last choice of profession would probably be fishing, there are still boats going out to sea to catch what's around. And what's around in these waters this end of winter/start of spring is the fabulous silver darling - the oily herring. Generally not…Read more »
