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Bread

Fougasse bread is the French cousin of Italian focaccia, an oval white bread seasoned with olive oil and salt cut to resemble an ear of wheat.

How to Make Fougasse – the French cousin of Italian Focaccia

August 20, 2019 by Elizabeth Atia

Fougasse is the French cousin of Italian focaccia, an oval white bread seasoned with olive oil and salt cut to resemble an ear of wheat. It’s remarkably easy to make too! In collaboration with Pomora.  Introduction My favourite sort of evening meal tends to be a mish-mash of cuisines, using up things in my fridge …

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Rye & Caraway Black Bread

Halloween Rye & Caraway Black Bread Recipe

October 31, 2018 by Elizabeth Atia

Perfect for a Halloween or a Harry Potter themed party, this black bread is easy to make and has a gorgeous rye and caraway flavour. Serve with a hearty stew (this makes a perfect bread bowl ‘cauldron’) or with a cheeseboard. “Can you make the bread black?” a client asked me recently after I suggested …

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Wee Black Pudding Bread/Dinner Rolls

Wee Scottish Black Pudding Bread/Dinner Rolls

October 14, 2018 by Elizabeth Atia

  Scottish black pudding stars in these easy-to-make mini black pudding bread/dinner rolls. Serve them (on Burns’ Night!) with your favourite Scottish meal. This recipe was inspired by the black pudding dinner rolls I enjoyed at Eat on the Green in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, earlier this year. I absolutely love trying new foods. I’m always on …

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Easy Cheese and Bacon Scones Recipe

Easy Cheese and Bacon Scones Recipe

April 7, 2018 by Elizabeth Atia

Crispy bits of bacon, grated mature Cheddar cheese, finely chopped spring onion, soured cream and some red chilli make these savoury cheese and bacon scones a perfect accompaniment to corn chowder. My eldest son works in a local cafe. This means, sometimes, he comes home from work at the end of the day with leftover …

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Pan Bati Aruban Beaten Bread Recipe

Aruban Pan Bati Recipe

November 18, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

I have been incredibly fortunate this Autumn to have been on two press trips to the Caribbean thanks to Aruba Tourism and Celebrity Cruises UK. I’m likely going to spend much of this cold, dark Shetland winter reliving the adventures I had there through a series of blog posts. I can still imagine the warmth …

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A Trio of Sandwiches for Afternoon Tea

A Trio of Sandwiches for Afternoon Tea

August 14, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

Afternoon Tea wouldn’t be complete without a selection of sandwiches. Here are three easy to make varieties perfect with a cuppa. In collaboration with Portmeirion Group & Spode Blue Italian.

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Herbed Potato Picnic Bannocks

Herbed Potato Picnic Bannocks

August 2, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

They say that familiarity breeds contempt. I’ve called Shetland home now for over 17 years. Shetland, in case you don’t know, is a little island archipelago in the North Sea midway between Iceland, Norway and Scotland. It measures a mere 80 miles from tip to tip and about 35 miles wide. It really is a …

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Fried Egg Picnic Spamwich

Fried Egg Picnic Spamwich

May 10, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Spam. Good weather was predicted for yesterday. 16 degrees C, the BBC weather app was saying, with full sun the entire day. In reality, the car temperature thermometer read 22 C. It rarely gets that hot here in Shetland even in the middle of the summer, let alone the beginning of May. …

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Mature Cheddar and Wholegrain Mustard Scones

Mature Cheddar & Wholegrain Mustard Scones

January 14, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

Scones were one of the first recipes I learned how to make as a child. Baking powder biscuits, they were called, back in the rural Cape Breton of my childhood. They were served warm with plenty of butter and, bizarrely enough, lashing of blackstrap molasses. Oh my goodness gracious me what fond memories I have …

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Garlic and Kale Pizza

Garlic & Kale Pizza

August 9, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Rennies. The summer growing season is officially in full swing! Poor weather for the first half of this year has meant that many gardens in Shetland have been suffering. Things haven’t been growing as well as they could be and so we’ve only started receiving weekly (instead of fortnightly) vegetable box deliveries. …

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Chorizo Grilled Veg Pizza

Chorizo & Grilled Vegetable Pizza

June 7, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Nothing beats a home made pizza on a Friday night! We’re a pizza loving family, it has to be said. My bread machine, gifted by my mother-in-law a few years ago, has a convenient 45 minute pizza dough cycle, so there’s absolutely no excuse for not making home made pizza on a Friday night. Simply …

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Pomora Giveaway

Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia with Smoked Sea Salt {Bread Machine Recipe} PLUS Win Your Own Adoptive Olive Tree from Pomora and a Year of Gorgeous Olive Oil RRP £135 {Review & Giveaway}

March 14, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

A cheat’s bread machine focaccia recipe PLUS a fantastic giveaway! Despite the fact I feel like I never stop moving at all in a day, I am ultimately quite a lazy person. I love bread, but after a day at work the last thing I want to do is to start hand kneading and proving …

Read moreGarlic and Rosemary Focaccia with Smoked Sea Salt {Bread Machine Recipe} PLUS Win Your Own Adoptive Olive Tree from Pomora and a Year of Gorgeous Olive Oil RRP £135 {Review & Giveaway}
Cheese on Toast

Our Family Favourite Cheese on Toast #sp

January 23, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Post commissioned by Galloway Cheddar – the family’s favourite Scottish cheddar! Cheese on toast has to be one of the best comfort foods. Ooey gooey creamy melted hot cheese on crispy toast with a soft, fluffy interior – there is definitely a time and place when this meal is required. Grilled cheese sandwiches were a regular …

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garlic and kale pizza

#BreadlineChallenge Day 5 – 47p Garlic & Kale Pizza

November 29, 2014 by Elizabeth Atia

FoodCycle Fundraising Total so far: £120 7:45 Wake. Kept hitting snooze. Feel like I’ve bit hit by a steam roller today. 8:00 Two coffees! 9:00 School run. Skipping the exercise session this morning, and for the rest of the Breadline Challenge as I think I need to conserve energy. This morning’s p90x plyometrics would have …

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cinnamon rolls

Rum & Raisin Cinnamon Rolls

September 19, 2014 by Elizabeth Atia

because even raisins love a generous nip of dark rum When I first started delving into the wonderful world of baking, around the age of 12, one of the first recipes I ever made was a basic cinnamon roll. It had a baking powder-raised scone base topped with plenty of butter, cinnamon sugar and raisins. …

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Heritage Wheat Wholegrain Pizza with Summer Pesto and Grilled Vegetables

August 22, 2014 by Elizabeth Atia

A deliciously wholesome pizza made with 16th & 17th century heritage wheats, grilled vegetables and a roasted red pepper, mozzarella and rocket pesto. Pizza doesn’t have to be plain, boring and ordinary. Jazz it up a bit with some grilled vegetables and pesto!

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Mediaeval Horsebread

April 10, 2014 by Elizabeth Atia

A replica Middle Ages peasant horsebread recipe made with heritage wheat and legumes. Inspired by Ken Follett’s book Pillars of the Earth.

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Picnic/BBQ Bread

July 1, 2013 by Elizabeth Atia

It’s that time of year again (if we’re really lucky!) – it’s picnic and barbecue time!

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Rustic French Bread

June 24, 2013 by Elizabeth Atia

I go through bread phases. Sometimes I can’t get enough of it and then I go months before I make it again. I’m in a bread phase right now and I’m making (and blogging!) a lot of bread. Fresh bread straight from the oven can’t be beat.

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Baladi (Wholemeal Pitta Bread)

June 4, 2013 by Elizabeth Atia

The first time I was ever introduced to flatbreads was through an employer of mine back in Canada.

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