Take a shop bought pitta bread and make it lighter, fluffier, yeastier and generally breadier and you should get the general idea.
Entries Tagged as 'Bread'
Pitta bread
August 25th, 2017 · No Comments
Tags: Baking · Bread · greek · Snack · vegan · Vegetarian
Sesame prawn toast
August 11th, 2015 · 2 Comments
Obviously being the unbearable gastro-snobs that we are here at Yumblog Terrace we would never dream of buying a meal from anywhere as common or unrefined as a take away, Chinese or otherwise. So imagine our chagrin when travellers from the Orient told of a rare Eastern delicacy known as a Sesame Prawn Toast which, […]
Tags: Asian · Bread · Fish · Seafood · Snack
Filoncino
October 21st, 2013 · No Comments
… or an Italian version of a baguette. Not to be confused with the French Stick – the English version of the baguette which is 24 inches of pale bendy disappointment and about as authentic as Peckham Spring Water. Filoncino
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian(ish)
Flat bread
July 30th, 2013 · No Comments
There are as many varieties of flat breads as there are varieties of Heinz products, or indeed bi-pedal humanoid aliens living amongst us – 57*. I can’t vouch for all of them, but this particular variant is tried, tested, easy to make, and very tasty. We laced ours with cumin although you could of course […]
Tags: Bread · Vegan(ish) · Vegetarian · Yoghurt
Spinach, egg & parmesan pizza
April 21st, 2013 · 2 Comments
Such is the toothsomeness of this pizza, it has now become a Friday evening regular here at Yumblog Cottage – along with six hasty after-work Stellas and a punch up* with rival food bloggers in the precinct. The recipe comes from the excellent ‘Polpo – A Venetian cookbook (of Sorts)‘ by Russell Norman. If you […]
Tags: Bread · cheese · Eggs · Main Course · Pizza · Vegetarian(ish)
Paul Hollywood’s beer bread
April 14th, 2013 · 1 Comment
I like Paul Hollywood, I like beer and I like bread…
Paul Hollywood’s crusty bloomer
March 30th, 2013 · 3 Comments
Pleasant surprise permeated through the Yumblog household when the first viewing of ‘Paul Hollywood’s Bread’ turned out to be a relatively straightforward cookery programme. There was of course the now obligatory 5 minute introduction guaranteed to elicit shouts of “Get the fuck on with it” plus the adoption of Jamie Oliver’s technique of looking just […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Carta di musica (with rosemary oil)
March 10th, 2013 · 2 Comments
This recipe does require the use of a pasta maker so you’ll need to have a rummage around in your cupboard of only-used-once things. There it is next to the Ken Hom wok set … to the left of the Jamie Oliver Flava Shaker … and behind everything you ever bought from the Lakeland catalogue.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Rosemary · Snack · Thermospatula · Vegetarian
Chestnut stuffing
January 10th, 2013 · No Comments
I know, it’s the middle of January so it’s unlikely any of you lot (dear readers) are going to want to digest anything referring back to Christmas, Christmas dinner or any of its associated trimmings. But trust me, in 344 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes and 55 seconds (at time of writing) you’ll be desperately […]
Tags: Bread · Christmas · Side Dish · Vegetarian
Pan Con Patatas
August 14th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Forget the mapping of the human genome, the discovery of the Higgs Boson God particle, or the invention of L’Oreal’s age defying Boswelox™, I think we here at Laboratoires Yumblog can humbly announce we have made the single greatest scientific breakthrough since our prehistoric ancestors rubbed two dinosaurs together and conjured up fire. Like many […]
Tags: Bread · Hangover · Snack · Tapas · Vegetarian
The perfect sourdough
July 16th, 2012 · 17 Comments
For some time it has been our mission here at the Castle Yumblog to create the perfect sourdough loaf – a subtle alchemy of simple and ancient ingredients – flour – water – salt – animated into being by wild airborne yeasts, and sculpted into final form by that most primitive of the elemental forces, […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
White bread rolls
June 3rd, 2012 · No Comments
What could be more patriotic and celebratory of sixty years on the throne than baking a batch of white rolls? Actually lots of things – but none of them took place here at the Socialist Republic of Yumblog. Power to the people.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Cheesy Rolls
May 28th, 2012 · No Comments
Perhaps with the exception of the odd East End boozer and the ready availability of Waitrose, there are not many things to miss about no longer being in that there London. However, living as we do in the heartland of Greggs, we have yet to find any bakers which sell a decent loaf – some […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · cheese · Vegetarian
Seed & grain white bread
January 23rd, 2012 · 3 Comments
Well I never, I’ve just discovered our local Morrisons now sells packets of fresh yeast for breadmaking… and at the very reasonable price of 50p for 126g. This was unexpected because a) as far as I know you can’t even get it at Waitrose, and b) Morrisons is very much at the (Sp)Asda end of […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Banana & chocolate bread
December 6th, 2011 · No Comments
At the last count Yumblog Junior had an impressive vocabulary of 38½ distinct words*. These range from the traditional and vital Mummy, Daddy, Dog, Cat through Cheese, Spoon, Cock-a-doodle-doo to more personal choices such as Shoes, Crumpet and Cheers (accompanied by the touching of the parental beer glasses). One of her first and still most […]
Tags: Baking · Banana · Bread · Vegetarian
Tomato, goat’s cheese and basil ‘bread’
November 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The inverted commas are there because this loaf contains no yeast and is actually more of a savoury cake than a bread. This has the added advantage that as well as being pleasantly toothsome, it can also manifest from a wishful inkling to an incontrovertible plateful in just under an hour and a half. That’s […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · cheese · Vegetarian(ish)
A Taste of Yorkshire: Barm Cake
October 3rd, 2011 · 4 Comments
Hello again dear reader and sorry for the brief interruption in transmission but the logistics of relocating the entire Yumblog Corporate Empire Inc. from fashionable East London to its new HQ in the even more fashionable outskirts of Media City, plus the switch over from analogue to digital (can you see the difference in quality?), […]
Tags: Bread · Reviews · Yorkshire
Rosemary Potato Pizza
August 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Trawling through the dusty archives in the Fanny Craddock Wing of the Great Library here at Yumblog Towers, it seems that in all our years as honoured custodians of this esteemed and venerable blog, we have never written up a recipe for pizza. A possible explanation for this (should your legal department require one) is […]
Tags: Bread · Main Course · Pizza · Vegetarian
Honeyed White Loaf
March 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Watching Michel Roux eulogising the virtues of hand-crafted bread on the ‘Great British Food Revival‘ reminded me that shamefully I hadn’t baked a loaf for several weeks. Thus suitably laden with middle-class guilt I put on a pinny, grabbed a jar of Mathos Organic Polygonum Honey (dark, strong and liquorice-ee) and made this simple white […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Oatmeal & Molasses Loaf (Revisited)
January 17th, 2011 · No Comments
Fellow bloggers… is it a crime to recycle an old post?
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
(The Perfect) White Bread (Toaster)
January 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments
It’s ok, put the dogs back in their kennels, tether the steed, the search is over, we’ve found it. The perfect white bread f’toasting is here and even better hardly any kneading is needed. Brilliant.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Dr Yum Gourmet Crispbread
May 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments
This recipe was the result of a pioneering scientific experiment to recreate something similar to Dr. Karg Crispbreads which, despite their medical honorific and Teutonic wholemeal worthiness are surprisingly tasty and addictive – especially if topped with a wedge of Extra Mature and a dollop of Branston. And so to the experiment…not being experts in this […]
Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Bread · Snack · Vegetarian
Onion Rolls
April 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Hmm, onions, hmm, bread, hmm, onion bread, hmm, onion bread in individual portions, hmm, lovely lunch.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Mushroom, Spring Greens & Lincolnshire Poacher Toasts
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments
It’s finals week and MasterChef has entered the wacky ‘It’s a Knock Out’ stage. The three finalists are being set some fairly arbitrary ‘tough’ tasks such as last night when they were shipped out to Jodhpur in order to cook for some royal toffs in 120 degrees of heat. No doubt tonight they’ll be forced […]
Tags: Bread · Brunch · cheese · Mushrooms · Vegetarian
Hot Cross Buns
April 5th, 2010 · No Comments
What to do on Easter Sunday when you’ve already filled the cupboards with tasties but there is a sweet tea-time shaped hole in the kitchen – it’s actually a hatch, but I saw Doctor Who and I know all about holes and cracks in walls and time/space continua and giant eyes. So anyway, hot cross […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Chocolate Roll Surprise
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments
Well I suppose that’s the surprise spoilt already.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Dessert
Cheese & Beer Bread
December 6th, 2009 · No Comments
This is a recipe from the Hairy Bakers/Bikers. It’s meant to contain brown ale but we didn’t have any so instead I used an alcohol-free driving Cobra which was gathering dust in the fridge. Let’s be honest, it was never going to get drunk.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Kwik White Bread
March 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments
‘Eating lots of white bread raises the risk of a cancer that kills thousands of Britons every year … those who eat five slices a day are almost twice as likely to develop the most common form of kidney cancer compared to those who have one and a half slices.’… or so says that putrid […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Lentil-stuffed Flatbreads
February 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Another recipe purloined from Dan ‘Pour some sugar on me’ Lepard, which was in turn of other provenance, but such is cooking, dishes are passed from one to another and in doing so they evolve. Talking of Darwin, he was 200 the other day you know and Google honoured this on their homepage. I wonder […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Side Dish · Snack · Vegetarian
Semolina-crust pain de mie
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
This Saturday I had the urge to spend all day in the kitchen and there is no better way of achieving this than embarking on one of Dan Lepard‘s more involved and elaborate recipes. This loaf takes the best part of a day to create and requires the making of two separate doughs – one […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Milk Loaf
December 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Here we have another superb and satisfyingly time-consuming recipe from Dan Lepard. This one caught my eye because two of the ingredients are cream and golden syrup.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Coburg Loaf
September 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Always on the look out for novelty bread flours, I came across a packet of Doves Farm organic Barleycorn in Way’ro. It’s a mixture of wheat and barley flours, malted barley flakes and linseed. Apparently this loaf was one of two things named in honour of Prince Albert.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Chewy Light Rye Bread
September 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I had to give this one a try, if only because it contains treacle, soggy Ryvita and onion. What’s more, it takes a whole weekend to make.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Lager Batons
September 1st, 2008 · 8 Comments
After the sourdough fiasco I felt the need to purge the memory by baking something successfully. This is a handy recipe as it uses only store cupboard essentials: flour, salt, yeast, honey and lager.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Sourdough Fiasco
August 20th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Ok, so we now have our sourdough starter sitting ominously in a jar at the back of the fridge gently seeping brown water. Time to make some bread. For a recipe I turn to the Observer Organic Allotment Blog and follow their elaborate and long-winded instructions to the letter.
Tags: Baking · Bread · Disaster · unusual foods · Vegetarian
Making a Sourdough Starter
August 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
If you believe the hype (well in my narrow Guardian reading world anyway) everyone in credit crunch UK is now an artisan baker spending their precious downtime in the kitchen fashioning crusty bloomers and squeezing out granary torpedoes. Generally (and childishly) if I find myself on a bandwagon I have the irrestable urge to jump […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · unusual foods · Vegetarian
Rosemary Focaccia
August 10th, 2008 · 9 Comments
On Saturday we went to a rain-drenched Oxford and had lunch at the highly recommended Branca Restaurant. Before tucking into fried calamari with lemon and chilli dressing followed by a big fat skate wing with scallops and mash, I soaked up the house red by nibbling away at some fine rosemary focaccia. So fine in […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Avocado Gazpacho
June 12th, 2008 · No Comments
What could herald the arrival of summer more than a big bowl of cold soup. Wasps perhaps. Or possibly sharing the big bowl of cold soup with a wasp. A wasp in shorts. Anyway, if you’ve bothered to read the posts below, you’ll know I am intimately familiar with the red, tomato-based gazpacho, however, up […]
Tags: Bread · Main Course · Outdoors · Soup · Starter · Tapas · Vegetarian
Feta & Mint Bread
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Regrettably, and I feel unreasonably, Tower Hamlets Council won’t let us keep sheep on the balcony so making our own feta cheese is out of the question. We do however have a healthy and ever-expanding mint plant and so at least were able to locally source half the ingredients in the title.
Tags: Baking · Bread · cheese · Vegetarian
Gazpacho
June 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Summer reluctantly and briefly visited the UK this weekend, and so as a gesture of thanks to the mighty sun god Ra we held up this delicious offering – the first gazpacho of the cold soup season.
Tags: Bread · Main Course · Outdoors · salad · Soup · Starter · Tapas · Vegetarian