The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
The pay offs for getting it right are soooo darn good.
ciabatta dough proving for the second time.
ciabatta loaves proving prior to baking
two freshly baked ciabtta loaves
nothing beats fresh bread
except maybe a blue cheese and salad sandwich on freshly baked bread
Ciabatta
from World Breads by Paul Gayler
For the Biga Starter
350g bread flour
10g yeast
200ml warm water
For the Dough
15g […]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Light Meals, Salads & Vegetables, Uncategorized, Vegetarian on Aug 21st, 2008
Every night this week I’ve had all the good posting intentions in the world. Life keeps getting in the way though in one form or another. Today has been no different. I will however assuage my non-posting guilt with a series of random images of things we have been eating this week.
Son and Heir has […]
Posted in Baking, Budget, Carnivorous on Aug 16th, 2008
However you like to spell it, I love the stuff. You can pretty much shove anything inside a bit of filo and it tastes fantastic and looks good.
What else could you do with 300g mince, one serve leftover kale risotto, 1 small bunch kale, 6 Brussel sprouts, starting to look spotty, 1 small carrot, 1 […]
Posted in Baking on Jul 16th, 2008
Sometimes it’s easy to interpret the linguistic leaps of a four year old. Sometimes not. Son and Heir’s request for piggy tail bread was one of the easy ones.
a plait loaf
Posted in Ramblings on Jun 27th, 2008
Fridays kind of suck. At Chez KP, Friday is house cleaning day. The top to toe kind. Which is made even more difficult by the presence of under foot Ankle Biter types, tired and cranky from their morning swim.
Sometimes though, the day comes together well. The chores get done plus more. Today was one of […]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Budget, Carnivorous, Leftovers on Jun 11th, 2008
One of my daily blog reads is Down to Earth. Rhonda is a very wise woman. She talks about living a simple life. Something I aspire to in many ways. Not only do I find it an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling way to live on many levels but I think it’s just plain smart. The […]
Posted in Ankle Biter Cooking, Baking, Light Meals, Vegetarian on May 19th, 2008
The Frugies came to visit Son and Heir’s kindergarten last week. Today we got a little note from the teacher saying that they left a rainbow chart to encourage the Ankle Biters to eat the full array of fruit and vegetable colours. So we are supposed to send our children in with at least three […]
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The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
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