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Making bread using yeast
Yeast is one of the oldest cooking ingredients, it was discovered several thousand years as a leavening or rising agent. There's a few different types of yeast that can be used in bread-making, but they roughly fall into two categories: Fresh yeast and dried yeast. ...
Baking and Cooking with oils and salts
When cooking, we nearly always need to use oil and salt, but which type of oil or salt should we use in different recipes? I've tried to go through some of the commonly available oils and salts below. ...
March - preparing seeds for growing
Just a quick update, we've been busy in the NutriCherry household readying plants to go outdoors once things warm up a little more. Along with my home made herb bed we'll be planting a mix of seeds including tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, beetroot, carrots, onions and potatoes into our raised beds. There's a mix of "real seeds", F1 hybrids and seeds...
Making a herb garden in a wooden raised bed
After many years of service, the original NutriCherry herb bed started to fall apart and needed an overhaul. I'd recently bought and built a new shed, and it seemed like a good idea to build a new raised bed for herb growing next to it. Along with being quite a sunny position there, the shed base was built up on...
Make your own italian herb mix from scratch
If you've got a batch of fresh herbs, or prefer to make up italian seasoning from scratch, then this is my go to for the mix ratios. In fact in all my recipes when I suggest "Italian herb mix" you can either use shop bought or this. What we call italian seasoning is a general purpose approximation of the herbs used...
A few notes for those getting started breadmaking
Even though bread often has just a handful of ingredients, it is actually quite difficult to get good results. As with most people starting out bread making, my first loaves were heavy and borderline inedible, even when following instructions quite closely. That led me to to read a few books on baking, then I understood a few things: ...
Introducing the nutricherry herb garden
Although at the moment my herb garden is a little overgrown and may look somewhat abandoned, it's actually been quite productive this year. Our rosemary bush has provided more that we could possibly use, the oregano has been doing well and thyme likewise, has been providig more than enough for our cooking. Growing herbs is generally quite easy as they are...
Tools needed for bread making
Bread making is one of the few hobbies that has a very low barrier to entry, just a regular household oven, and some kind of baking tray are needed. Most households will already have enough to get started. However, although you could make bread without most of the tools below these are the items that I use often. ...
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