Create with your hands
Create with your hands
Recipes for the basics of life like bread, pasta, stocks, and the like.
Sourdough shortcrust pastry is such a versatile staple in our home. We use it for everything, from making custard tarts to apple pies and chicken pot pie to quiche Lorraine. The sourdough shortcrust pastry is perfect for any dish you want to make because it makes a deliciously flaky and crispy crust.
Learn how to start your own sourdough starter. Creating your own sourdough starter from scratch is easier than you might think. All you need are two ingredients, flour and water. Once a starter is created, it will serve you for many years. A sourdough starter is an essential part of a kitchen that produces from-scratch traditional foods.
Make delicious artisan homemade sourdough bread in your Dutch oven the easy way. Being able to enjoy sourdough bread like this feels like a luxury. A crunchy crust with a pillowy crumb inside spread it with some grass-fed butter and raw honey, and I could devour slice after slice all day long.
Chicken bone broth is not just delicious, but it is also extremely nutritious and surprisingly easy to make. It is a true staple in your kitchen since you tend to use it for so many recipes. It gives simple wholesome food a deeper and fuller flavour that you won’t get any other way.
Why would you want to start cooking from scratch in a world where everyone is used to eating premade processed foods? Here are 10 reasons why I think you might want to start cooking from scratch a bit more. Everything from tastier and healthier food to improving your mental health in the process.
We love eating pasta at our house. Or more accurately, we love freshly homemade egg pasta. The flavour and texture are amazing, and nothing beats that sense of accomplishment that you get from turning flour and eggs into a meal. So why not try it?
Delicious and healthy yoghurt, with its gut-healthy probiotics, is perfect for any time of the day. Whether you like it for breakfast with some muesli and fruit mixed in, or you prefer to eat it as a dessert with some honey drizzled over. No matter how you eat your yoghurt, it is delicious, and when made yourself, it is incredibly healthy too.
These wheat tortillas are perfect if you need to whip something up quick for lunch or dinner. And they are delicious filled with sauces, salads, spreads, and really any kind of filling. You can make them completely from scratch in just 15 minutes and they are so easy that you will wonder why you ever even bought them.
Who doesn’t love a bowl of steaming broth filled with delicious noodles and topped with delicious eggs, veggies, and chashu. It is the ultimate comfort food, that with its gelatine-rich broth is healthy to boot. And ramen noodles are easier to make at home than you would think.
So why not give it a try?
Bread. Steaming hot from the oven slathered with butter and drizzled with honey. Nothing tastes quite as good as that. I love making my own bread at home, knowing that my creation feeds my family. And after years of recipe trials, I finally found my golden combination of flour, water and yeast.