We are still baking bread. I have baked a white bread with a sort of nice slash pattern on the side of the bread and Ed has baked a 20 hour retarded (in the refrigerator) fermented bread with 20% whole wheat flour.

Ed’s Pain Rustique – based on 50% poolish (6 hour fermentation)

Ed’s Pain Rustique [...]

We started baking bread like crazy again after a little break. The reason; we wanted to see if we also could bake great artisan breads. We also got fed up with fluffy tasteless supermarket breads. However, in our small oven we can only bake one bread at the time and never get the crusty crust [...]

It’s really hard to find a good ripe mango here in Holland. It must feel so exotic to be able to pick one sun ripened from a tree in your back yard (or maybe not if you are used to it). I dare not think how green the mango’s get plucked that end up here [...]

I got this recipe back from our trip to Norway last summer. It’s a great combination of ingredients, both for their colour and smell (think purple blue and orange, spice and fruit). And stirring blueberries in my copper saucepan, while letting my thoughts drift, is very satisfying. I left the chutney to ‘fend for itself’ [...]

Roses and food are my new special interest. Rose water in cakes, rose candy, rose flavoured ice cream, it’s everywhere if you have an eye for it. On top of the Rose list at the moment is Rose Liqueur. I love a splash of rose liqueur in a glass of prosecco with added rose petals [...]