Monthly Archives: March 2011

Almost perfect Falafel (No. 2 in an occasional series)

falafel

Today’s packet mix is falafel!

Brian mixed up a batch of Dan Lepard’s perfect pitta bread dough from that seminal work, ‘The Guardian Guide to Baking’  24 November 2007 –  this is the recipe that almost qualified for the title of ‘the easiest bread in the world’.

If you haven’t read this it begins like this

Biting into a tender, freshly made and baked handmade pitta reminds me how stale and tough the shop ones are…

I was hooked neatly with that one sentence and I’ve been baking bread ever since. There’s no turning back once you’ve made your own pitta bread. So don’t try this at home, or you will unleash the daemon baker within. You have been warned.

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Chocolate Mint Pecan Brownies from David Liebovitz

Chocolate After Eight Brownies David Liebovitz

This one caught my eye and held it long enough for me to print out the recipe, scan the ingredients, and pick up a box of After Eights when I went out to get the Saturday papers yesterday. (The flowering plant is a ‘false’ forget-me-not or Brunnera macrophylla – Jack Frost in case you’re wondering.) Continue reading

Love Food Festival at the Passenger Shed

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Just a quickie post in case anyone is around in Bristol this weekend.

Some old friends and some new here.  I love Trealy Charcuterie and I’ve just sliced into some of Thoughtful Bread’s great sourdough. Kenneth you were right, it’s fabulous!  I’ve tried an oyster fresh from Cornwall, yum, and stocked up on my favourite cheeses and sausages, olive oil, pickled garlic, coffee beans, chocolates,  samosas and all sorts, peeked in at the Cookery School, and bought more herbs outside where the sausage store is doing a brisk trade in sizzling bangers.

This is a lovely chatty food festival in a great venue – part of Brunel’s original railway station for Bristol. There is lots of seating and tables and everyone looked like they were having a great time.

You can read more about it on the Love Food Festival site. It’s on again tomorrow, entrance free.