Category Archives: Saturday breakfast

Bank Holiday Baking: Cheese and Spring Onion Cake recipe

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

It’s 25 degrees outside, it’s beautifully sunny and what do I think of when I wake up? Cake. Not just any old cake mind; this is a posh French savoury cake known as cake salé. I first tried a version … Continue reading →

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Breakfast in Holland: the uitsmijter

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

I’m on the train to The Hague via Brussels and I’m looking forward, as I always do when travelling, to the food. Especially breakfast. I’m always more excited by eating breakfast abroad than any other meal (okay a drink and … Continue reading →

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‘Bread with a Purpose’: Speedy Spelt Bread

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

Spelt, an ancient, less refined and therefore more digestible form of wheat, was once only found in dusty health food shops and dictionaries but, in the last decade, it has become so fashionable that no self-respecting farmers’ market would be … Continue reading →

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A Morning Cake: Banana Bread

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

It took me a long time to be convinced by the virtues of banana bread. I was after a flavour and texture that could work in the morning (so not too sweet or soft) and as a treat at teatime … Continue reading →

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Bank Holiday Breakfast: Rösti à la Thomas Mann

Posted on August 29, 2010 by

Breakfast, especially on long weekends is, or should be, leisurely, full of yummy things to eat and bathed in sunshine. Or that’s what cookery magazines would have us believe. But as rain, wind and autumnal weather has battered most of … Continue reading →

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Fernandez and Wells

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

On Sunday Sophie and I caught up over coffee in the Nordic Bakery, the travel section in Waterstone’s (she was in Japan, I was in Spain), then, as we looked for somewhere for a juice we stumbled upon Fernandez and … Continue reading →

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Tina, We Salute You

Posted on July 6, 2010 by

My neighbour Mark invited me out for breakfast on Sunday and we went to tiny Tina, We Salute You which is in, I think, Dalston. Situated on an unprepossessing corner, it has only two tables inside, one large communal one, … Continue reading →

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