Baladi (Wholemeal Pitta Bread)
The first time I was ever introduced to flatbreads was through an employer of mine back in Canada.
The first time I was ever introduced to flatbreads was through an employer of mine back in Canada.
I love fresh bread. I have fond childhood memories of visiting my friend’s house when her mother had her bread-baking days. She’d spend a whole day making the bread for the month and the table and oven would be filled with loaves and trays of rolls, glistening with the melted butter brushed over the top.
We live out in the country where there are no takeaways. If we were to get a takeaway we’d have to drive for at least half an hour to town and back
It’s the beginning of a new month. This means that all the new themes for food blogging challenges are announced. I love this time of month; I find it inspiring. What am I going to be challenged to make this month? Is it something new?
Bere (pronounced ‘bear’) is a form of six-row barley which has been grown in Orkney for thousands of years.
I was fortunate enough to have been gifted a brand new swish Panasonic bread machine for Christmas (thank you Bestemor!) and I’ve been trying out some of the recipes in the booklet that came with it. One of the recipes is for a chocolate brioche.
For Belleau Kitchen’s Random Recipes challenge I borrowed a copy of Sally Butcher’s Veggiestan: a vegetable lover’s guide to the middle east with the instruction to make her delicious Imam biyaldi recipe.
It wasn’t until I was in my very late teens/early 20s that I discovered the wonderful world of bagels. I was working in a small family-owned shop in Halifax, Nova Scotia and just down the road from the shop was a fabulously quaint coffee shop called Mr. Bean’s Cafe. They sold all sorts of specialty teas and …
Garlic fingers (French: Doigts à l’ail), also known as garlic cheese fingers, are an iconic Atlantic Canadian dish. This recipe tastes as good as you’ll get from Pizza Corner in Halifax. Prep Time: 1.5 hours Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy One of the biggest things I miss from my time living on the East …
Semit is an Arabic recipe I first learned about in Claudia Roden’s A New Book of Middle Eastern Food.