For those of you who watched the second series of Great British Bake Off will be familiar with finalist Holly Bell. I was a fan of hers from the first episode because she’s local to me, has a similar obsession …
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Seasoned is a Midlands based cookery school run by Clare Tetley. Not only does she run a business providing fabulous day courses throughout Derbyshire & Shropshire she has a brownie recipe to die for. I met Clare back in September 2010 when …
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Today Hubs leaves a company he’s been with since he graduated and is heading to the big smoke of Derby to be a big, bossy, managerial engineer kind of thing. His current workmates have been testers for my baking experiments …
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Every once in a while things go wrong in the kitchen. Grand ideas turn into unmitigated disasters. As requested by twitter here is the blog to prove that sometimes baking does go wrong, but it doesn’t matter. It’s a learning experience …
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As some of you know I teach cookery. In one of my roles I’m an Adult Education Tutor at evening classes of which I thoroughly enjoy. The women in one particular group have helped to shape what they would like …
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January 25, 2012
by Jules
January 25, 2012
After getting over my fear of tempering chocolate and making ganache for Hub’s Birthday Cake I’ve decided this is going to be the year I master chocolate making. Going on the Artisan Chocolate course on the School of Artisan Food last year …
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January 23, 2012
by Jules
January 23, 2012
I know many people are beginning to feel the pinch at the moment with food bills and here is no exception. Our shopping habits have certainly changed over the last year, partially down to budget and also time constraints due to work. …
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January 21, 2012
by Jules
January 21, 2012
The new Butcher, Baker blog has been a few months in the making and in the early hours of this morning I launched it. There is the odd bug that I’m still trying to sort. New site and new URL …
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January 3, 2012
by Jules
January 3, 2012
In the 10 years I’ve been with him, I’ve never known Hubs to have a proper birthday cake. He’s one of the lucky or unlucky people (depending on your viewpoint) who arrived on this earth just in time to interrupt …
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January 2, 2012
by Jules
January 2, 2012
It’s fair to say 2011 had some peaks and troughs but we made it through relatively unscathed. We’ve eaten and cooked some interesting things along with meeting some fabulous people. I can’t predict the food trends for next year, but I have a …
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