In these uncertain times, we see many people resort to the comforting and gratifying art of baking. We have always been baking through good and bad times, but never have we felt the significance of it more than in the last weeks. We are lucky in many ways. Lucky in what we have and where we live and being able to bake our own bread… [Read More...]
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A pizza adventure part III : Who wants pizza for dessert?
We had heard of a sweet pizza ‘invented’ by Gordon Ramsay before. It contained lemon curd, crème fraîche and basil and the buzz was it should be amazing. So our last pizza baking session with the Roccbox, we decided to try one or two sweet ones. And, being a big fan of all ingredients, especially home made lemon curd… [Read More...]
Basic Pizza Dough Recipe
Always looking forward to making pizza during the weekend. Be it classic with mozzarella and tomatoes, or my favorite alternative with pear and taleggio cheese. Of course making your own pizza dough is the way to go… [Read More...]
Pizza Dough with a Poolish
If you you are not stressed for time and are looking for maximum taste, try and make my favorite pizza dough, using a poolish preferment. A poolish is made in a minute, the only thing is you have to think in advance… [Read More...]
Pizza – until you have that wood-fired oven…
We wanted to get as close to the fire of a real pizza oven as possible, until we would have the place, time and money to build one ourselves. Then one evening we zappingly land in the middle of a German cooking “infomercial” about a little pizza oven you can use at home. What intrigued us was that the crust on the pizza looked really good.Long story short: [Read More...]
Things We Baked This Weekend II & A Word of Thanks
Thanks everyone for the enthusiastic, stimulating and inspiring reactions to our first bread video. And also to all the people who tasted our bread this year and asked for more! and also gave very useful tips for improvement and additions. More and more we are convinced of the positive properties of good bread. We see […] [Read More...]
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 factory bread with elastic ‘crust’. Also made scones and this eventful Saturday ended with pizza, […] [Read More...]
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 no objection. Please go to Norway because it’s so beautiful it will move you to […] [Read More...]
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 types of sledding, dog, horse drawn and several odd devices that get you downhill in […] [Read More...]
