The Best Cookbooks

After a trip to the farm, what am I going to do with all this stuff? Of course it had to be a cake. A beetroot cake. Beetroots is something I rarely buy. But I had to buy those from Grays Farm. Because I had just read about the most curious cake, and I had [...]

I grew up in an apartment. My grandparents used to have a peach tree and a fig tree. And some strawberries. But that was it. I don’t know what it is that makes me want to have a plot to grow my own stuff. I’ve sort of  started  it now, although it’s just herbs for [...]

Shaping a loaf is just one of the techniques you have to master in bread, together with proper kneading (is it ready already? does it need a bit more wrist dancing? is it too much? can I turn off the stand mixer now?), enough rising times, water temperature, salt amount…Uff…Every book I read, the authors [...]

More and more bloggers theses days are getting book deals, book contracts with good editors. When I look at the background of all these writers-bloggers-cooks, I find it diverse but still see some things in common in all of them: first of all, they love to cook, obviously, and not just cook  because they have [...]

The number of excellent blogs I’ve been discovering that focus on baking is increasing everyday. I am so happy with the fact that is is so easy to find great recipes, created by common mortals (not professionals) that are adventurous enough to recreate old recipes or do everything from scratch. I am not like that. [...]

Hello everyone Wow it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I missed this blog. This corner where I can express all the thoughts I have on food. The food I see, the food I buy, the food I cook, the food I eat. A brief summary of what as passed in the last months? days? [...]

When we are teenagers, we want to be different. We want to be the best . It’s all about us and showing off. Who has never tried to runaway from home, carrying only a backpack with some clothes? Who, as a teenager, did not go to a flea market to sell their old toys? Who [...]

As promised, here is a pic from the apple and rye cake. The texture of this cake is much heavier than any other cake made with a white wheat flour. I like the idea of using different flours in baking exciting and it can be an excuse to eat more and more if you use [...]

*****U P D A T E***** Apparently many many recipes from Short and Sweet have already been published on the Guardian website… A very similar recipe for the walnut loaf I posted earlier can be found HERE. The difference in this recipe is that the bread is baked in a tin. I have to say [...]

Hello everybody! I’ve already talked to you about Dan Lepard in previous posts. I am now particularly interested in his most recent publication, Short and Sweet. This book deserves a prize. This book deserves all the attention people can give to it. It deserves all the time to try all the recipes in there. I [...]