Carl Legge:recipes, thoughts, ideas
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Fermenting Revolution 3 – Kimchi
Kimchi Recipe Kimchi is a traditional Korean spicy vegetable pickle. The veg starts off being brined and then it’s rinsed and allowed to ferment in a paste of onion, garlic, ginger and chillies. It’s normally made with shredded chinese style cabbage as the base with other vegetables included. Basically, you can make it with anything,…
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Orange & Cinnamon Swirl Brioche Recipe – Carla’s Treat
The smell of this bread when making, baking and eating is heady. It’s redolent of warm summer evenings in Morocco with spicy orange & sweet cinnamon. You’ll be hard pushed to leave it once it’s out of the oven for the crumb to mature. I think it must be mildly addictive. I came by the…
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Fermenting Revolution 2 – Apple cider vinegar
It’s apple harvesting time. You may be wondering what else you can do with nature’s bounty after the pies, chutneys, jellies and the like. While going through Sandor Katz’s book I mentioned in Fermenting Revolution 1 I saw home made vinegars. And I’ve found that making vinegar really is very simple and the result is…
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Blackberry Apple & Chilli Chutney Recipe
This produces a chutney that has a rich, intense and complex flavour: blackberry plus. And the colour is a deep vermilion that is striking on the plate. I first used it as a condiment with a cheese platter and the sweet-sour-chilli flavours complemented the cheese and sourdough bread spectacularly. I next used it to deglaze…
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Breakfast muesli bar, oaty, chocolately, fruity, seedy, spicy
When my son was a third of the size he is now, I wanted to be able to feed him a healthy snack bar. Most of the commercially available ones were stuffed full of sugar and/or additives. So I decided to invent my own. My son is 16 now and much bigger and the recipe…
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Fermenting Revolution 1 – Bouza experiment
I’ve been going a bit wild of late. More specifically, wild fermenting. And it’s all Sandor Katz’s fault. Let me explain. I bought a Kindle version of Sandor’s book Wild Fermentation. It explains the science and practice of fermenting just about anything. Not only are fermented products tastier & healthier, they’re also a great way…
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Blackberry wine recipe
Our blackberry wine is a delight. It tastes almost like port, rich and smooth with a good depth of ripe fruit flavour. This year everyone seems to be saying that the blackberries are earlier than ever, so I thought it might be useful if I popped up the recipe I will be using. It’s really…
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Courgette & feta yoghurt pastry boregi with sunflower seeds & coriander
These courgette & feta boregi are so moreish. The stuffing is really fresh tasting, with the surprising crunch of the sunflower seeds. The pastry is crisp and deliciously rich. It’s a great way of using the courgette glut from this time of the year. It’s also liked by people who profess not to like courgettes!…
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Oatmeal Soda Bread
I had a request for a recipe this morning from Craig at WeGrowOurOwn and Alys Fowler for the recipe for my breakfast bread. It’s a really tasty, simple and quick oatmeal soda bread. The principle of soda bread is that the raising agent is bicarbonate of soda (hence the ‘soda’ in the name) which is…