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A bakery From Home
One of the reasons I set up the Juniper and Rose Kitchen Garden School was to teach people how to run a bakery from home. As well as a great way to supplement your income running a pop up bakery from...
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Using Bengali Lemons to make Marmalade
It’s Christmas week and discovered the most incredible looking lemons when I popped into my local Asian Store on the Kettering Road in Northampton. They are large and really aromatic. They smell...
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Turnips
In the kitchen With their beautiful ivory flesh and royal band of purple or green around the base you’d think turnips would be easy to get right. They look delicious and yet if you cook them wrongly...
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Fairtrade Vanilla Scones
There is nothing quite so simple to bake as a scone. I often throw a batch of scones in the oven when I teach, and they are made all the more delicious by using the Ndali Fairtrade Vanilla powder. I...
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Sourdough Bread Making Course
Oh I’ve loved every minute of today. I’ve been teaching a sourdough course to some really great people. There is still washing up to be done in the bowl but the smell of fresh baked bread is still...
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Rhubarb Syrup
This pink, intense syrup is from my recipe book Prepped. It packs a really fruity punch. Nothing beats rhubarb for combining sweetness and tartness in the same instance. It’s easy to make and is...
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Elderflower & Rose Syrup
This pink, floral, slightly tart yet sweet syrup is one of my favourite recipes form my book Prepped. It makes a superb gift. Yes, you can buy it, and if you’re reading this in the other ten months...
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Local Milk From Newlands Dairy, Northamptonshire – May 2013
Life doesn’t get much more delicious than making your own butter using local cream and I’ve been making my own cultured butter recently. My perfect breakfast in sourdough, toasted with butter and...
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Food Photography Tips
When I first decided to add the food photography course I really had no idea how well it would go, or indeed, if anyone would even want to lean how to take a photo of what they were about to eat....
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Buffalo Milk – May 2013
Yesterday I drove just across the Northamptonshire border over to Napton Water Buffalo in Warwickshire to fetch some milk for our practice run of the new cheese making course. I have to tell you that...
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Advice on how to grow your own strawberries – June 2013
Today I have been making strawberry jam. Although My strawberries are doing really well and promising to be a bumper crop I can’t wait to make jam so I cycled to my local market at the end of the...
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Heygates Flour Mill – Northamptonshire
The two mills that I have visited recently could hardly be more different. It seems kind of strange that the end result of both the process of milling flour in a thousand year old mill at Claybrooke...
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The Grenada Chocolate Company – May 2013
Chocolate is never just chocolate. I was first introduced to The Grenada Chocolate Company my friend Chantal Coady of Rococo Chocolate about 4 years ago. Chantal’s description of the plantation...
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Strong Flour Milled At Claybrooke Water Mill – April 2013
There is a revolution going on with bread making. People want artisan bread, but it’s not just the bakeries that are part of this bread renaissance. The home bakers are making great tasting artisan...
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Whissendine Mill
At the back of the village Nigel Moon and his fabulous 95-year-old mother Ruth Moon run the Wissendine mill north of Oakham, south of Melton Mowbray, selling stoneground flour to the local bakery...
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British Artisan Flour Mills by Region
Artisan flour mills We teach people to make artisan bread on our bread making courses. ( you can look a the list of our making courses here) One of the first things I tell people is that if you are...
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