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If you're looking for an alternative to roast potatoes or mash this holiday season, why not try our rosemary and sea salt hasselback potatoes! Fluffy on the inside, crisp on the outside, with plenty of butter, sea salt and fresh rosemary, they're an excellent side dish for your Thanksgiving or Christmas roast! Ingredients: Serves 4… Continue reading Rosemary Hasselback Potatoes
Here is our first attempt at a pumpkin pie! We made a ginger and cinnamon flavoured sweet shortcrust pastry, filled with a lightly spiced custard made using fresh pumpkin. Best served chilled! Ingredients: For the pastry: 250 grams plain flour 140 grams cold unsalted butter cut into cubes Two egg yolks mixed with 3 tablespoons… Continue reading Pumpkin Pie
After our first time making Madeleine's last week, we we made a few tweaks to our recipe in order to get a better rise and lighter texture. The key changes were replacing self raising flour with plain flour and baking powder, reducing the quantity of eggs to make a the mix thicker, and using an… Continue reading Chocolate and Pistachio Madeleine’s
Our wood oven dried tomatoes give a great burst of flavour to this tomato and rosemary focaccia. Focaccia is very simple to make and one of our favourite breads due to its strong flavour, resulting from using high quality extra virgin olive oil and plenty of coarse sea salt. We tried adapting our Rosemary Focaccia and used… Continue reading Wood Oven Dried Tomato Focaccia
Our madeleine tray had been sitting in our kitchen for months and had never been used, so we thought we would give it a try after hearing how quick and easy they are to make. We weren't let down! These lemon and poppy seed madeleins are great with a cup of tea in the afternoon… Continue reading Lemon and Poppy Seed Madeleines
Slow roasting tomatoes is a great way to intensify their flavour. After a pizza-making session in our wood oven, we wanted to replicate sun-dried tomatoes using the retained heat from the oven for slow, overnight roasting. We used garlic, chilli, oregano, extra virgin olive oil and sea salt. The result was better than anything we… Continue reading Wood Oven Dried Tomatoes
These crumbly shortbread biscuits are very easy to make and make a great snack, particularly if you like a hint of heat! Ingredients (makes c.24): 120 gram unsalted butter, room temp 225 gram plain flour 60 gram caster sugar 1 tablespoon (light flavour) // 2 tablespoon (medium flavour) // 3 tablespoon (strong kick) of pink… Continue reading Pink Peppercorn Shortbread
If you like Jaffa Cakes, you will love this chocolate and orange drizzle cake! The recipe was slightly adapted from @bbcgoodfood by doubling the orange zest quantity and adding fresh orange juice when serving. Ingredients: 140 grams softened unsalted butter 200 grams self raising flour 1.5 teaspoons baking powder 3 large eggs 6 tablespoons milk… Continue reading Chocolate Orange Loafcake
We have always wanted to try a polenta cake - this recipe uses almond, polenta and olive oil, making it a great gluten free cake option. The combination of rosemary with lemon and orange makes for a flavour packed cake, great served on its own or with some cream! Ingredients: 3 lemons 3 large oranges,… Continue reading Olive Oil, Polenta and Citrus Cake
Fig season is upon us, and we are lucky enough to have a fig tree in our garden, so we decided to experiment by making this fig tart tatin using our fresh Violetta figs! The recipe is simple and has only a few ingredients. This tastes great served warm with a dollop of cream or… Continue reading Fig, Honey and Vanilla Tart Tatin
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