Category: Baking Projects
Things We Baked over the Weekend
Again a weekend full of bread flavours and smells. The best thing to be done when all you get outside is rain, rain and more rain. In fact the weather was so bad that our Dutch Santa, the famous ‘Sinterklaas’ … [...]
The Amsterdam Artisan Bread Test
See below for version in Dutch Visiting artisan bread shops in the center of Amsterdam and comparing bread Last Friday we finally got around to doing our little ‘Amsterdam bakery tour’. We decided to only test bread, or else we … [...]
San Francisco Sourdough Bread
Last week we tried out the San Francisco Sour Dough recipe from Peter Reinhart’s latest book ‘Artisan breads every day’. We used our home made local Amsterdam rye sourdough culture because we believe our bread thrives on it (rather then … [...]
Pain Rustique…practice makes perfect!
We are still baking like crazy with our Rofco bread oven. This little box works miracles for bread. The hot stones make the bread live, open up, and rise till the roof! All the heat which is stored in the … [...]
Bread, Figs and Roses
What a joy, when a like minded food lover not only brings her enthusiastic personality but also the most fragrant and freshest cheese, figs, herbs and roses to your door! We could offer some raspberry chocolate tart in return (recipe … [...]
Pain Rustique & Our New Spiral Mixer
We survived the chicken pox, we got our new spiral mixer and started baking again! The first two batches where two loaves of Pain Rustique which is our favourite recipe for a white yeast bread (see Jeffrey Hamelman and his … [...]
Rofco: Our Brand New Bread Oven!
We waited long, but it was worth it. Finally our Rofco bread oven has arrived from Belgium. Brought by the Rofco Company owner Micha himself, it came with elaborate and enthusiastic instructions. That was last Friday. And we haven’t stopped … [...]
You Guessed It…More Bread
As new buns and cakes are in the making, we wanted to show you a few baking exercises we worked on yesterday. Great result with making a whole wheat loaf, which tasted so much better then the average blugghhh tasting … [...]
Yes, even more Bread…
Still no sign of our new Rofco ‘semi professional’ baking oven. So while waiting for it, we might as well bake some more bread in our little normal household oven with a capacity of one bread at a time. We … [...]
More Bread
We are still baking bread. I have baked a white bread with a sort of nice slash pattern on the side of the bread and Ed has baked a 20 hour retarded (in the refrigerator) fermented bread with 20% whole … [...]
Baking Bread
We started baking bread like crazy again after a little break. The reason; we wanted to see if we also could bake great artisan breads. We also got fed up with fluffy tasteless supermarket breads. However, in our small oven … [...]
Back from NY: Cupcakes, Cinnamon Buns and Tofu Cookies
We just got back from a foodfull visit to New York City. So much to try and taste and such small stomachs! It’s a shame and a blessing, it leaves you wishing you could manage more but you are also … [...]
Norwegian Food
Spending over 4 weeks in Norway has taught us a lot about food culture in Norway. The short version: if you are particular about your food: Go to Italy! If you are a resourceful and inventive person there can be … [...]
New Year in Norway
We were fortunate enough to spend the beginning of the New Year in beautiful Norway. It is great to experience a real winter around this time of the year. So we made the most of the snow and did all … [...]
South of England : Sticky Toffee Moments
I’m happy, and the simple reason is all the glorious food moments I already encountered in my life. Many will follow hopefully, and recently I scored a few bonus points when visiting England. I have been to England and Scotland … [...]
Our Favorite 10+ Hot Toasty Ideas
I distinctly remember when toasties (tosti if you’re Dutch, croque-monsieur for the French) came into fashion with our family. All of a sudden everybody had a ‘hot toasty iron’. Now this was something new and different to look forward to for lunch. Somehow we never got past the cheese and ham ones, except for … [...]
No Knead Bread: Once more with Feeling!
I do not think I have any new information to add to the ‘no knead bread craze’ that’s spreading faster then a virus, be it real or virtual. But yes, I had to try it too and I had to … [...]
Cookies from an Island Bakery
When we visited Mull on the west coast of Scotland I came across a little bakery in the colorful settlement of Tobermory. Those of you who watch BBC/ CBeebies will maybe recognize Tobermory from the popular children’s program Balamory. Because … [...]
Historical Cookies
My last holiday was a ‘mer à boire’ for a foody like me. Everywhere you go in Italy and Provence you see something worth exploring. Even supermarkets are interesting abroad. But the cookies I found in St. Remy de Provence … [...]