Chocolate Fudge Jumbles

These biscuits or cookies are called jumbles and are made from a store cupboard ingredients which you will have to hand.  I think they are called jumbles as they can be flavoured with whatever jumble of things you have to hand.  The recipe I based my biscuits on was from The Great Book of British Baking.

Pitta Bread

Pitta Bread

I have a day off work today so decided to make some pitta bread for our lunches for the rest of the week.  They are really easy to make and require minimal effort.  I used a recipe from Paul Hollywood’s How to Bake.

Crumpets

 

Crumpets are something we eat often – my children love having them for tea on a Sunday evening whilst watching TV.  I decided this week to make my own for the first time.  The recipe I followed was one by Paul Hollywood from his book How to Bake but he has a similar recipe in the Good Food Channel website. 

Bagels

Bagels

I’ve never made bagels before but we eat lots of them so I decided that today was a day to try something new.  I used a recipe by Dan Lepard from his Short and Sweet recipe book.  He has a similar recipe which can be found on the Guardian website.

Banana and Chocolate Loaf

I’ve discovered two things whilst writing this blog;

1. It is much harder than I thought to take good photos of food – especially with a ‘point and click camera’ and on dark evenings when the kitchen is poorly lit
2. Most cake/biscuit/bread recipes are very similar – does that make the blog boring?

Any variety of cake made with banana and chocolate is a favourite of one of my boys which is a good things as we often have overripe bananas in the fruit bowl that no one will eat!

Lemon Muffins

Lemon Muffins

Muffins are my favourite thing to bake when I have little time and few ingredients.  These lemon ones just use a few basic products that I usually have to had without having to make a trip to the shops.

Chocolate Fudge Tray Bake

Chocolate Fudge Tray Bake

This cake was made to share at work and help celebrate a  colleagues 21st birthday.  I found the recipe on the BBC Good Food website.

Raisin Oatmeal Cookies

Raisin Oatmeal Cookies

These cookies are another lunch box treat and are another recipe that can be made with things that I normally have in the cupboard without making a special trip to the shops.

Tapenade Dinner Rolls

I made these rolls to have with soup for a family gathering.  I was in a rush and forgot to take photographs as I went along.  The recipe was a Dan Lepard one which can be found here.  I have to say that mine weren’t nearly as neat as his!

Red Pesto and Parmesan Pinwheels

Red Pesto and Parmesan Pinwheels

Tomorrow we are having a family gathering at lunch time and decided that we would all bring some food to share – we are going to have homemade soup, bread and puddings.  My contribution is to be the bread.  As I am busy already in the morning tomorrow (I have taken up Dragon Boating!) I decided to make one of the breads this evening to save time.