Saturn (tomato & basil) rolls

Cottage cheese purchases are often on a healthy kick whim. It’s opened, spooned on a jacket spud then the rest of the pot risks being forgotten about at the back of the fridge. This recipe uses up this languishing pot and is perfect for a quick lunchtime bread as no yeast is required. As part of

Beginner’s guide to bread making

I love baking bread, I find it really rather therapeutic. Some have even suggested recently that baking can make you happier. When I find the time I always try to bake us bread, however it does have its downsides. There is nothing more delicious in this world than bread fresh from the oven and slathered

Berry, Cherry & Almond Bread

Dried fruit is a bit of a Marmite; people either love or hate it. I really like it. As well as dried fruit I love the combination of cherries and almonds. There is something so sweet and succulent when the two flavours are paired which probably goes a long way to say I adore, nay

Onion and Parmesan Knotted Loaf

This should really be called the onion and parmesan 8 strand plait loaf but given our analytical brains couldn’t process Paul Hollywood’s instructions (no pictures) to make an 8 strand plait we kept on ending up with a messy knot. Giving up we shaped it some more and bunged it in a 2lb loaf tin.

Salted Caramel Chelsea Buns

We all have ingredients we can’t do without. The ingredient that appears in nearly all the dishes we make and our cupboards are full of its variants. For me,and probably a great deal of the population, it is salt. Fish & chips are not the same without the salty tang and bread made without salt is