A dark, dense, moreish loaf that will sit so stoically supporting your avocado and eggs or cream cheese, dill and luscious cured salmon. Ingredients 375g leaven (recently fed sourdough starter)375g boiling water 500g organic dark rye flour12g fine salt30g black treacle Method This recipe starts with your sourdough starter, which you can make using this … Continue reading Scalded Rye Sourdough
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Guyanese Black Cake
All of a sudden we’re in November and it’s time to start letting ourselves dream about Christmas, even though the global pandemic has everyone rather worried about just how the festive season is going to pan out. At least this is one thing you can control and look forward to enjoying. The Black Cake is … Continue reading Guyanese Black Cake
Tomatillo Time
August has brought the first crop of Tomatillos to the UK. Rarely grown here, I eagerly await their arrival and celebrate the short season with the ultimate green salsa that elevates barbecue to ridiculously insane heights of deliciousness. Repeat after me: [toh-muh-tee-oh]. Physalis philadelphica and Physalis ixocarpa are part of the nightshade family - similar to the … Continue reading Tomatillo Time
Scandi Pear & Cardamom Cakes
Confession: I don't really like pears. Often hard and grainy; quickly soft and mushy, they do little for me. This recipe is a direct result of receiving yet more pears in our weekly organic delivery and desperately trying to find new ways to 'use them up'. Necessity is the mother of invention - Fika will … Continue reading Scandi Pear & Cardamom Cakes
Sourdough Pizza
Another dangerous path of culinary adventure that requires tightrope level skills to maintain the balance between joyous deliciousness, and an inevitable descent into morbid obesity. Thankfully, unlike flatbreads, this recipe takes many hours to execute, which will hopefully prevent it becoming a regular go-to carb snack. There are literally thousands of sourdough pizza recipes out … Continue reading Sourdough Pizza
Food Fit For Felix 