We were bored with porridge, we had four black bananas, and some milk that needed using up, and so … I whipped up a double batch of my tried and trusty banana muffin recipe – I was a bit lazy, and put everything in the Magimix rather than do it separately. Also I left out…
Tag: baking
making good use …
… of the oven. I’m trying to cook in a different style – more on the hob, and less lighting of the big oven unless I can use it for more than one thing. I have a decent oven in the microwave, so I use that more now as well. We were supposed to be…
a brace of banana cakes
Using up: bananas We had a lot of bananas, so I decided to make some banana cake. And then I realised we had even more bananas than that, so I thought I’d make two, and freeze one. Better than letting the bananas go to waste, I thought. So I duly made two – it really…
let them eat cake
Using up: half a lemon, dried cherries I fancied a cake – both making one, and consuming it. We don’t have them often, but last night I decided I would. And it would use up the half a lemon that was in the fridge 🙂 This is based on a Nigella recipe, and works really…
carrot muffins
Using up: some extremely tired carrots. This recipe is from Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess, and I will type it up for you when I get a moment (ho ho). She adds a frosting made of Phildelphia cream cheese, icing sugar and lime juice, but we never bother – far too sweet…
nutty brown bread
Soda type breads are a great way to use up old milk, and don’t need yeast. This recipe comes from an old book of mine entitled the Irish Baking Book – no sign of it on Amazon or anywhere else, but it has a lot of recipes from my childhood in it. I have no…
pan gallego
This is a Spanish bread from Galicia. I made it to use up an ounce of fresh yeast left over from the weekend’s foccacia … 350g strong white bread flour 115g wholemeal bread flour 2 tsp salt (I think this was a bit too much myself) 2 tbsp olive oil 20g fresh yeast 275ml lukewarm…
foccacia
I’m rarely organised enough to make bread. We do have a bread machine, but it’s in the loft; I don’t particularly like the bread it makes, and we don’t eat much bread anyway. But I fancied some for lunch yesterday – I have a Kitchenaid mixer with a dough hook, there was bread flour in…
drop scones
Having been to Pizza Hut for lunch (first time in many years, and not particularly nice, especially not the (possibly mildly autistic) screaming child at the next table), we didn’t want much for supper. So we had drop scones. 8oz self raising flour 1/2 generous teaspoon of cream of tartar ditto of bicarbonate of soda…