You caught me “Popularist! Popularist!” I hear you chant. But it’s hard not to adopt the properties of your environment. You are the sum of the people and places you most interact with, and for me, that’s food, and foodies. Especially, baked food, and bakers. I love it, love baking. From Bara Brith to Brown, cookies …
Month: August 2018
The Plan Down at the restaurant, my dough of choice, is of course, sourdough. Everyday, I’ll take a portion of sourdough starter, and mix that in with my flour and water to make the pizza dough. Simple enough. Usually, I’ll use around 4% by weight of flour of starter. That is for every 10kg of …
Another one to try from the Pizza Bible by Toni Gemignani. I’ve been eyeing this one for a while now. A sausage pizza that is. It’s a topping that seems like such a classic when described through an American lens, and yet I’ve never tried one. And I also don’t see what the big deal is! …
Croissant, or Mille-Feuille? An innocent enough question. An idyllic one, when I was a child. Food’s power comes from fostering relationships. It comes from the fact that two people eating together, are sharing. Sharing an activity. Sharing clumsy mouthfuls of custard caked pastry. Sharing happiness. No surprises then that one of my (literal) sweetest memories …
A symple pizza, easily overdone. With nothing but pesto as a topping, you have to be careful with making pesto pizza. Its intensity can lead to a pizza dominated by its salty-savouriness. In addition, the fat from all the oil and hard cheese can lead to a pizza base more fried than baked, hard and …
Got pasta? Make pesto. If you’ve got five minutes, a pestle and mortar in need of a little love, and a basil plant that’s taking over the kitchen window, then pesto’s your answer. There’s no better, or quicker meal, than some fresh pasta, smothered in even fresher pesto. With that, let’s dive in to the …
Fianlly, the moment has come. I’ve mastered Amaretti, the ultimate coffee biscuit. But it didn’t come easy. From sugar choice to your perfect ‘almond’, this is the definitive, final chapter on how to make, and understand, perfect amaretti. Experiment 1: Comparing bases What makes a biscuit base? When it comes to choosing a …
The morning after the party. Strange place to start a recipe, true, but bear with me. Arms heavy (thankfully no spaghetti or vomit), air even heavier, I trudge blind into the kitchen. It’s clean, a testament to OCD’s power over alcohol. However, a functioning kitchen is only the first step of the leftover re-purposing marathon …