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THE BREAD
Not a bad effort. Quite pleased with that. Half white and half 8 grain flour.
April 27, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Umm.
So...I have to report that I made honeycomb last night.
This is the only evidence that it existed.
March 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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THIS PIC DOESN'T do this loaf justice. It's the darkest, maltiest loaf I've ever baked, it's deelish!!
I had a slice with some soup. Lush.
Can't wait to make toast in the morning!
March 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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WELCOME GOmens Nation, to the Friday hashtag of your choice!
Getting my cooking mojo back on, which was something I struggled with last March after my hols in Spain, for some reason.
Here's some feisty no-knead dough, made yesterday.
March 27, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Happy Michael Monday, GOmens Nation!
Another wk of Clowning!
I've baked more noknead bread. Left the dough for 36 hrs b4 baking. Made with buttermilk. Very happy with that crumb. The dough lookd flat b4 baking but rose like a good'un. Half white spelt flour.
March 9, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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MY SPECIALITY FLOURS, specifically chestnut flour, has arrived. I shall use it in pasta making.
I celebrated by using some homebaked bread to make a cheese & ham toastie, which is looking pleasingly golden instead of my usual beige effort.
February 24, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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BREAD
No, I am not obsessed, how dare you.
Cut and stacked, ready for the freezer. Beautifully moist (notsorry) due to the buttermilk and it will make fantabulous toast, a toastie or even a good ole sammich.
April 27, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Taking this idea and runnimg with it. No-knead bread sough. I habe no white spelt so this is half light malthse flour and half sunflower and something flour. So it's going to be a very brown loaf & it already smells lovely and malty. I hope it rises enough ++
March 2, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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ANYONE TRIED making this, from Diners Drive-ins & Dives? Another thing I've been obsessed with trying.
I tried it today, pretty easy: tinned tomatoes, oil, garlic, honey, salt & chilli.
I overbrowned the garlic a bit, altho it didn't look it but I cld smell the bitterness.
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February 26, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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SO GOOD to get back to baking again. Toast and homemade apricot preserve (jam to common oiks like me).
My chillies r drying nicely. I'd like to bash them up and use them as flakes. I shlda got my friend to dry them in her dehydrator. Doh.
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May 1, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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I FORGOT to put some mixd seeds on the top, or anything at all...oh well. They turned out good anyway.
The spicy tomato oil I posted about earlier.
And some chicken stock on the go.
February 26, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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ON THIS #WAHOOWEDNESDAY, I have made some pasta dough using chestnut flour and some bread roll dough using one of my new speciality flours from Shipton Mill.
Very excited!
Need to get my drying rack back from nextdoor.
February 25, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Might be getting a little obsessed with the pasta making.
What I have learned is that if u have pasta dough made with 100g flour, divide it into 4 and roll out each piece as thin as u dare. And when u think it's thin, do it a bit more. ++
February 25, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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#TicketyBooThursday
Morning and welcome to Tickety-Boo Thursday!
Pasta is nearly dried and ready for storage.
Got a bagel out of freezer for brekki.
And just look at my bread roll dough, rising like a goodun! Was going to bake tomorrow but might do it later.
February 26, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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FINALLY got some more bread dough on the go, trying to get back into it again.
AND two lots of soup: my new way of making soup is to bake onions and lots of garlic in stock, covered over in the oven. I discovered this when making onion and garlic soup and thought...
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April 26, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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A good-looking brown no-knead loaf, just out of the oven.
Butternut squash soup & a roll I made the other day and some more no-knead bagel dough lurking...
March 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Feeling a smol smug as I've just put some thyme & parsley from the garden into my chickn stock pot.
& my Armabloodygeddon chillies r drying nicely. There's enuf here to keep me going for the next 10 yrs probably, bcos they are HOT!! but I may try & grow some from seed anyway.
March 26, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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OK. So, way better than my first ever attempt, but not entirely right.
The batter was too liquid, I need to revise the flour:milk ratio.
And for some weird reason I used the wrong pan and totally forgot to lightly oil it.
So my pancakes came out in chunks. ++
March 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
February 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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VERY feisty dough, but I always worry I am going to overproof, so these bois are gonna sit now for a couple of hrs b4 baking.
I had the dough in the fridge overnight b4 lifting it out so it prob wld have been ok til this evening...but I still got nervous.
February 26, 2026 at 11:50 AM