Cooking, loving and hating by a regular inebriate, master thesis-dodger, pseudo-foodie and all-round trouble maker.

Thursday 5 January 2012

Love+festive foodie favourites in pictures

Home-baked beer loaf

Festive home-baked Peanut Butter Cookies








Poppies are coming up

Incredibly good champagne

Lovely roasted lamb and potatoes




This is a short highlights reel. Tip for the cookies: if you are using salted peanut butter do not add any additional salt, alternatively use unsalted peanut butter.

Do try the bread if you've half an hour, a beer and some self-raising flour spare. The recipe is simple as anything and it takes only about 30 minutes to cook. Here is a basic recipe:


- 500g of self-raising flour
- a pinch of salt
- 340ml of any good beer (light beers like Peroni or Amstel will do well)
- some chopped or crushed garlic (about a teaspoonful)
- an onion, chopped and fried in a pan
- your choice of herbs

Pre-heat the oven to 180. Mix all the ingredients together into a dough. Stick it in a bread tin and bake for 20-30 minutes. Voila.

Cook food, you won't regret it.

4 comments:

  1. Hello Landers - Thanks so much for your kind thoughts re my father. I am looking forward to reading of your adventures in horses, dogs and cooking. I hope your lost dog made it home!

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  2. Ahhhhhh he didn't - we are all raw nerves and broken hearts. I've contacted everyone I could think of (even a psychic). Heck, I'd do anything at this stage.

    Chin up Wolfie, and thanks for the shout-out.

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  3. Fingers and toes crossed that he finds his way back to you.

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  4. Thanks Wolfie. Here is for hoping!

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