Pumpkin nut bread is an easy bread that is great for Halloween and the fall months. It has a lovely aroma that fills the kitchen and makes you want to try it straight from the over, but it also keeps well over night and is still delicious the next day. You can ever serve it nude or add your favourite topping such as Philadelphia cheese. It is a glorious sweet bread.
Today’s treat is honey oatmeal bread. It’s that glorious mixture of sweet honey with healthy oatmeal. I really do think this bread is a treat – probably best for autumn or spring.
I love garlic bread. Mum didn’t cook with garlic when I was small so I was late discovering garlic but once I had it turned out that Mum loved it too – altough Dad like his food somewhat plainer. So of all my focaccia bread recipes I think my favourite is garlic focaccia bread. Focaccia is a great bread for lightly toasting.
There are alternatives though for those who like their breads with herbs or fruit. For instance there I have a recipe for rosemary focaccia bread. It’s perhaps not a truly traditional Italian focaccia bread recipe, but it still works well.
I have a whole lot of bread recipes and recipes for things like semolina pizza dough. Great bread is something I love. Generally I don’t like much salt in food but for bread and butter I make an exception. But bread is great if you add nuts or pumpkin or banana. There are also different types of bread from bruschetta bread right through to things like the sultana bread I described in my previous post.
To help you find them all I have put together a listing of Speciality Breads with recipes, tips and even more help.
I love fresh bread; I love fruit with savoury food (duck à organge, pork with pear, gammon with pineapple); I love sultanas. Doen’t it make sense to put it all together? Of course it does! So I have a lens about Sultana Bread. Adding cinammon as well gives it an extra edge. Go on. Try it! You know you want to.
It’s another lens in my series of bread recipes. There is a lensography coming soon!
I’m happy with the icing and frosting collectionof lenses. My black cake icing lens is one of my favourites so it made sense to create a lens about making gold fondant. There are plenty of lenses with recipes for fondant – even making fondant sea shells – but not one before about making gold fondant. It can be made by mixing two of Wilton’s neon food colors or you can buy gold coloring from eBay. If you are being lavish, you could even use real gold dust!
I love baked beans. I like food to be moist so I need a sauce or gravy. One of the easiest options – and something you can get in any pub – is baked beans on the side. Yummy. My brother has them with gravy as well but I’m an either all kind of girl.
So when a baked bean casserole recipe lens came up for sale, I couldn’t resist it. Nor could I resist writing a lens about Heinz baked beans – probably the best baked beans ever!
As the number of bread lenses builds out, I have been thinking about what goes well with bread. Well for me in terms of hot food, there are three things: soup, casseroles and lasagne. Foods I love. So I have been adding recipes to my collection.
For casseroles, I particularly like baked bean casserole. but for Christmas, then a turkey noodle casserole is a really tasty option.
When I had an operation a couple of years ago and my mouth was sore, the first food I wanted was a lasagne. I ordered that in an Italian restauarant because I was away from home recuperating, but lasagna is easy to make.
My latest venture has been some focaccia bread recipes. The central lens is about homemade Italian focaccia bread but there are also separate recipes including a rosemary focaccia bread recipe and garlic focaccia bread which might be the best garlic bread of all?
I picked up a cute little lens about Dolphin figurines. The English isn’t great so I have already re-written chunks of it. I’m hoping it might be a quiet little earner.
As part of the deal I also got an aikido lens. I’m not sure what to do with that!