My OH has high blood pressure so needs to restrict his salt intake. At one time, I took to baking saltless bread for him (still do, just not very often). We were buying fruit and veg through an organic box scheme, and as we're not very good at eating our greens, we often had them left over. Then I thought of baking them in the bread. I roughly chopped (raw) whatever green veg was delivered into the blender goblet, added warm water and whizzed it to smithereens. Then emptied it into a mixing bowl, added flour and yeast and proceed as usual. The result was scrumptious. I called it "extra texture nutritious delicious nourishing flourishing bread".
Those look good. I made some traditional ones for patch group and they loved them.
The bread with the funny poolish palaver is wonderful. Much better texture and flavour than when I've done it with easy yeast or even ordinary dried yeast. I'll be doing it again but not immediately as it makes 2 loaves which will last us ages.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Have you noticed a shortage of parmesan cheese? There were only two packs in sainsburys yesterday.Now there's only one. According to Google, the Americans are stockpiling before tariffs hit.
Baked butternut squash Spiced red cabbage Home-made thingies - I've never thought of a name for them - suggestions welcome. Roast potatoes.
Turbo-charged bread and butter pudding.
Butternut squash - dead simple, cut in four lengthways, discard seeds and pulp, brush with olive oil and bake until it's tender. An hour or more.
Red cabbage - already in the freezer - one red cabbage, one cooking apple, one onion, oil, wine or cider vinegar, garlic, black pepper, brown sugar, cloves, ground ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. Slice the cabbage, apple and onion, add a crushed clove or three of garlic, tablespoon each of oil and sugar, teaspoon each of the spices, a few cloves, and a dash of vinegar. Mix it all up in a big casserole, bake sloooowwwly for an hour or more. Even people who don't like cabbage like this.
Thingies: beat an egg, stir in fresh breadcrumbs, pine kernels, crushed garlic and grated parmesan cheese. Roll into balls and fry or put them in to bake with the potatoes.
B&B pudding: one 500g panettone, butter, stem ginger in syrup, marzipan, eggs, milk, brown sugar, sultanas. Slice and butter the panettone, butter a large shallow dish, stand the buttered slices on edge in it and tuck slices of stem ginger and marzipan in between. Scatter over sugar and sultanas, beat eggs, beat in the milk and pour it over everything else. Bake until it's brown and crispy on top.
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The bread with the funny poolish palaver is wonderful. Much better texture and flavour than when I've done it with easy yeast or even ordinary dried yeast. I'll be doing it again but not immediately as it makes 2 loaves which will last us ages.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Red Wine and Juniper Berry Sauce
1l red wine
½ l chicken stock
125g shallots, chopped
½ tsp fennel seeds
1tbs juniper berries, crushed
8 black peppercorns
½ tsp fresh thyme
1 bay leaf
2tbs sugar
4tbs balsamic vinegar
1tsp honey
2 garlic cloves
½ tsp cornflour, slaked
Bring everything from the wine to the bay leaf to the boil and then simmer till reduced by half – about 25 mins.
Melt the sugar slowly until liquid and brown then add the vinegar to dissolve it – beware splashing!
Add the reduced sauce, honey and garlic to the sugar mix and simmer for 10 mins. Strain. Reduce to about 30cl then thicken with the cornflour.
Baked butternut squash
Spiced red cabbage
Home-made thingies - I've never thought of a name for them - suggestions welcome.
Roast potatoes.
Turbo-charged bread and butter pudding.
Butternut squash - dead simple, cut in four lengthways, discard seeds and pulp, brush with olive oil and bake until it's tender. An hour or more.
Red cabbage - already in the freezer - one red cabbage, one cooking apple, one onion, oil, wine or cider vinegar, garlic, black pepper, brown sugar, cloves, ground ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. Slice the cabbage, apple and onion, add a crushed clove or three of garlic, tablespoon each of oil and sugar, teaspoon each of the spices, a few cloves, and a dash of vinegar. Mix it all up in a big casserole, bake sloooowwwly for an hour or more. Even people who don't like cabbage like this.
Thingies: beat an egg, stir in fresh breadcrumbs, pine kernels, crushed garlic and grated parmesan cheese. Roll into balls and fry or put them in to bake with the potatoes.
B&B pudding: one 500g panettone, butter, stem ginger in syrup, marzipan, eggs, milk, brown sugar, sultanas. Slice and butter the panettone, butter a large shallow dish, stand the buttered slices on edge in it and tuck slices of stem ginger and marzipan in between. Scatter over sugar and sultanas, beat eggs, beat in the milk and pour it over everything else. Bake until it's brown and crispy on top.