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Pizza Scrolls
Pizza Scrolls are the ultimate family friendly snack, perfect for easy weekend lunches or midweek lunchbox treats. This one simple dough can be home to a whole range of fillings, but the pizza scrolls shown here today are a classic hawaiian flavour. The concept of pineapple on pizza has long been controversial, but is essential for this flavour combination. Feel free to experiment with your favourite pizza toppings, cheeses and vegetables for these pizza scrolls. You can even mix up the sauce for BBQ, sweet chilli or plain tomato paste depending on your preferences. The dough in this recipe is multi-purpose and the proportions can be shaped into loaves and…
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Sourdough English Muffins
These deeply flavoured sourdough english muffins are the perfect savoury base for a wide range of breakfast and snack options. The extra long cold fermentation times allow for the natural yeasts and bacteria to break down sugars in the flour and produce the tasty levels of lactic and acetic acids that give characteristic sourdough flavours. if you don’t have a flat sandwich toaster you can cook these sourdough english muffins on the flat hot plate of a BBQ or a frypan . The convenience and the size of this appliance makes cooking a large batch of these muffins a breeze. Because of the extra long preparation time, it’s well worth…
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Hearty Beef Stew with Polenta & Mash Topping
This hearty beef stew is the perfect combination of rustic comfort food and refined savoury flavours. Leaning heavily on pantry staples for the seasoning and topping, the heart of this meal is in it’s slowly simmered filling paired with fluffy dumplings that soak up all the delicious sauce. This meal is great to prep in advance and can be completed up to the topping stage to be finished later. Once the stew has cooled, you can spoon on the cooled topping, seal well and freeze up to 3mths or refrigerate if you’re going to finish the cooking in the next two days. It’s a great family gathering dish and pairs…
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Seeded Oat & Honey Discard Crackers
I’ve been adventuring into sourdough breadmaking recently, and quickly discovered that the amount of discard that is generated can add up quickly if you don’t have extra uses for it. This quick cracker recipe is the perfect way to re-purpose this richly flavoured, pre-fermented flour and also reduce waste in the kitchen. The seeds you use in these crackers can be mixed and matched with dried herbs of your choosing, to suit what you have on hand. Even plain, they are still delicious. The discard adds a distinct savoury tang, backed up with the sweetness of honey and pops of salt. Perfect as an addition to your cheeseboard, as a…
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Maca Powder, Apple & Cacao Nib Muffins
These delicious Apple Muffins use some lesser known ingredients including Maca Powder and Cacao Nib for a nutritious and flavoursome boost. Cacao Nibs are made from dried and fermented bits of the cocoa bean. Used here as a crunchy textural replacement for chocolate chips, rich in iron and magnesium. Maca Powder is a traditional peruvian powder adding a nutty, caramelized flavour. There are a long list of reported health benefits, especially linked to hormonal health and energy production. Unfortunately the regular dose required is a fair bit higher than you would get from a single muffin. If you’re interested in reading more about Maca Powder, some of the claimed health…
