Posted in Bread, Daring Bakers, Tribe, Vegetarian, vegan and alternative, tagged dough, Italian, pizza on 1 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This month’s Daring Baker’s challenge was set by Rosa from Rosa’s Yummy Yums. We made pizza. We tossed it in the air. It was deliciously thin-crusted and FUN. Daring Bakers we are!!!!
~ BASIC PIZZA DOUGH ~
Original recipe taken from “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice” by Peter Reinhart.
Makes 6 pizza crusts (about 9-12 inches/23-30 cm in diameter).
Ingredients:
4 1/2 [...]
Posted in Middle East, Vegetarian, vegan and alternative, tagged lentils, Ottolenghi, rice on 29 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post has nothing to do with breakfast and everything to do with the wonderful book that arrived at my door yesterday from Amazon: the recipe book from Ottolenghi. For a while, I’ve been wondering where to find a bit of new culinary stimulation. Most of my recipe books got left in South Africa, and [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Vegetarian, vegan and alternative, tagged banana, milk, smoothie, spinach on 26 July 2008 | 6 Comments »
Nik says I just like getting parcels. He says that’s why I keep ordering stuff off the internet. Me, I say internet shopping is simply the bomb. You can spend as long as you like finding exactly what it is that you want, then buy it in a few minutes, and a day or two [...]
Posted in Bread, Tribe, Vegetarian, vegan and alternative on 10 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another lovely gathering of the south-east London tribe girls, this time at my flat. We were a somewhat smaller gathering than usual, as Sarah’s still at home with new arrival Florence Belle (congratulations!!!!) and others had other commitments. But Elke, Iratxe, Anja and I managed to magic up a feast of felafel, pita breads, hummous, [...]
Posted in Vegetarian, vegan and alternative on 5 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Those of you that read my other blog (or just keep in touch!!) will have picked up that the past week has been dominated by activities on my new allotment. Have been digging, weeding – and finally, today, planting. And meeting a lot of my allotment neighbours. Today, Sofia sent me and Nik home with [...]
Posted in Bread, Tribe, Vegetarian, vegan and alternative on 25 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
So Thursday afternoon was a gathering of the part-time tribe… a bunch of us that, every now and then get together at someone’s house to do homely bits of work together – a big spring clean, planting. And – more often than not – cooking. Some of us have children; some are expecting; the idea [...]
