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Everyday Sour Dough Bread
Crunchy, moorish, flavoursome butter drenched freshly made sourdough toast. One of life’s great pleasures and something I enjoy more than I should. I started making bread more than 20 years ago. I’ve made basic loafs, bread from premixed packets, dark moist rye,...
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Fresh Mayonnaise
One of the first shop bought foods I made from scratch was mayonnaise. I was in my late teens and it really seemed like kitchen alchemy. This wasn’t baking or cooking, it was something different and unexpected. And the thrill of making something that I had previously...
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Cleaning Windows
When I quit full-time work to look after the children, we had to make a few cut back. Food shopping was the first target. This was pretty easy for me, I’ve always loved cooking and relished the prospect of having more time to plan and shop for ingredients to cook. We...
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Strawberry Jam
Sticky Jam! As any parent will testify, there are few substances known to man as sticky as Jam. Even a well supervised child can get the stuff everywhere and not just on the their face and hands. I’ve cleaned jam from car door handles, combed out of hair and wiped it off...
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Baked Beans
Thick, meaty, eat them hot or cold baked beans. We all know that Heinz makes really great beans. When you’re desperate for a quick meal, then in the time it takes to toast some bread you’re sitting down to some great comfort food. I like mine cooked with a pinch of...
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Fish Fingers
Peas, chips, fish fingers and tomato sauce, inhaled by children for generations. Until I made my own, I thought fish fingers were one of those foods that couldn’t be improved on, like Heinz tomato ketchup and baked beans. But then I used to think the same about most of my...
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Cleaning the sink
Lemon, Sodium bicarbonate and vinegar – three food ingredients I use to clean the sink. I like to know what goes into my food and the same goes for my cleaning products. Fifteen years ago, I ditched the Fairy, Flash, Jiff and Persil and opted for greener products....
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Michael Pollan - IN DEFENCE of FOOD
Who I am
Edward Norton, the stay at home Dad who loves food and loves to cook, not the Hollywood Actor!
What I do
I try to make as much food as possible or reasonable from scratch. I feed a family of four; myself, two children and a working wife. Cooking is part of my life not my life, so it has to fit in with everything else going on.
I work on an 80/20 principle. I buy 80% local, 80% organic and make 80% of my food from scratch.
Why I do it
It should save me money.
I know what goes into what I eat.
It makes me feel good!
Help me loose weight . . . if I don’t eat too much of what I make.
Inspired by the book In Defence of Food