I’ve missed several weeks, being away, but I’m back on the challenge wagon now – and what a bread to start back with, but a Casatiello bread! It’s a rich, buttery, brioche-like dough, with salami and cheese sprinkled throughout…kind… Read the rest of this post

Amazing how an innocent comment on Twitter can get entirely out of hand.  Poor Nicole (of Pinch My Salt)  – just a question if anyone would want to try working their way through The Bread… Read the rest of this post

Aww, sad – the last edition of our gourmet Let Us Eat Bread challenge!  I wanted to save this one for last – I loved both it’s elegant shape and unusual combination of pumpkin and orange.

Like the buttermilk… Read the rest of this post

So, things have been a bit busy and I’m behind on the challenge.  Actually I did make these in week three – on Sunday, for a goodbye party for a friend of mine who was heading off to join… Read the rest of this post

For week 2 of our Let Us Eat Bread challenge, I chose something equally sculptural – these lovely Buttermilk Fantails. Each flaky layer separates easily, and tastes fantastic spread with butter or jam. They were better day one than… Read the rest of this post

I’m in the process of trying to lose some weight – reading diet books, including those on (horrors-of-horrors)  low-carb diets.  Then came the Februrary issue of Gourmet, and any hope of that happening went right out of the window.… Read the rest of this post