As promised on my twitter page the recipe for todays Tuscan style chicken ragu, we made this dish in the cafe today as it was a blindingly cold day and i forgot my coat so when i got to work all i could think about was cooking something hot and tasty for lunch. Ingredients to serve [...]
This bread is a great combination of two flavours, sweet plump sultanas and that perfumey fennel taste all wrapped up in a fantastic crusty bread. For this recipe you need to use a good extra strong flour to help achieve a good crust. Ingredients 500g Extra strong white flour 480ml water 7g dreid yeast or 14g [...]
Banana bread Ingredients 100g butter 175g castor sugar 2 large eggs beaten 200g self raising flour 200g ripe bananas 85g yogurt ½ tsp of baking powder ½ tsp of nutmeg 125g plump sultanas 100g roasted walnuts or pecans 75g poppy seeds Method cream the butter and the sugar together in a bowl until it is light and fluffy add the beaten eggs add a little of the flour at a time [...]
We have been trying to make our scones in the cafe that little bit different, so I went to work on creating something that little bit special. I came up with passion fruit curd it has an amazing fruity & fragrant flavour that blows me away, so much so I sent a jar of curd [...]
Blueberry muffins you’ve got to love them, they are our best seller in the café, now that the lavender is in full flower in the garden I thought I would fuse the two flavours together. Last time I was at the BBC Good Food Show I tasted a fantastic jam with both Blueberry and lavender. [...]
I have just sat down on the sofa having enjoyed the best meatballs i have ever eaten, in fact so delious i thought i should really share it with you straight away.
I have started working with the Lake District Cheese Company this year so i have been working on developing some recipes with embrace this great cheese
