My sourdough with bran

My sourdough with bran

Beehive Sweet Buns.

- Beehive Sweet Buns | Beyond Kimchee
brioche-style buns
288g all purpose flour uk
Dough = 560g : 19 = 29g each bun








- Honeycomb Buns Recipe | King Arthur Flour

Bearnaise sauce recipe | BBC Good Food

- Bearnaise sauce recipe | BBC Good Food

Shepherd's Pie

- Mary Berry's shepherd's pie recipe

- The perfect ... shepherd’s pie | Felicity Cloake | Food | The Guardian

- Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie

Mushroom Barley Soup.

- Mushroom Barley Soup - Comforting Deli-Style Soup Recipe

Ricotta and oregano meatballs by Yotam Ottolenghi.

Serve four.

5 tbsp olive oil
2 large onions, peeled and chopped
4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
2 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 1cm dice (optional)
2 large stalks celery, cut into 1cm dice (optional)
8 whole sprigs fresh oregano, plus 10g chopped oregano leaves
400g tinned chopped tomatoes
1 tsp sugar
500ml chicken stock
Salt and black pepper
500g minced beef
100g freshly made breadcrumbs
250g ricotta
60g grated parmesan
1 egg
20g chopped parsley

First, make the tomato sauce.
Heat half the oil in a large sauté pan for which you have a lid.
Add half the onion, half the garlic and all of the carrots, celery and oregano sprigs.
Place on a medium-high heat and cook for 10-12 minutes, stirring a few times, until the vegetables have softened without taking on any colour.
If need be, put the lid on the pan, to help prevent the onions from catching and burning.
Add the tomatoes, sugar, half the stock, half a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of black pepper.
Cook for 10-15 minutes, stirring from time to time, to give the sauce a chance to thicken gradually.

Meanwhile, make the meatballs.
Put the remaining onion and garlic in a large bowl with the beef, fresh breadcrumbs, cheeses, egg, oregano leaves, parsley, three-quarters of a teaspoon of salt and some black pepper.
Mix together with your hands, then shape into 12-14 balls weighing about 70g each.

Heat a tablespoon and a half of olive oil in a large frying pan and, when hot, add the meatballs.
Sear for two minutes on each side.
(Depending on the size of your pan, you may have to do this in two batches, adding the remaining tablespoon of oil before cooking the second batch.)

Remove the whole oregano sprigs from the tomato sauce, then gently press the seared meatballs into the sauce.
Pour over the remaining stock, or just enough almost to cover the meatballs; top up with a little water, if need be.
Cover the pan and cook on a very gentle simmer for 30 minutes.
If the sauce needs to thicken more after this time – you want a thick, pasta sauce-like consistency – remove the lid and increase the temperature a little so everything bubbles away.
Remove the pan from the heat and set aside for at least 10 minutes before serving.

Serve with orzo or tagliatelle, warm or at room temperature.

Pancakes.

My recipe
35g Self-rising flour
1 egg
125ml warm milk
30g butter
Pinch salt
1/2 tsp sugar

Method.
Put the egg, salt and warm milk in a bowl whisk until frothy, add the flour a bit at a time
with the sugar and salt beat well.
Set aside for 30 mins.
Melt the butter.
Heat a frying pan with a little butter and cook the pancakes until golden. Turn out onto a plate
brush lightly with melted butter,sugar,lemon or creme Fraiche.

My No-Knead Bread.

100.0%, 320.0 g Strong flour + 40g Rye Flour + 40g Wholemeal Flour = 400g
2.0%, 8.0g Salt
0.5%, 2 g Instant Yeast
78.0%, 312.0 g Water

Beef brisket.

- Pot-roasted beef brisket recipe | BBC Good Food
The dried porcini will add about three quid to the cost of this dish, but you get a lot of flavour for your money. We ate this with mashed swede, and loads of butter and black pepper.

Serves 6-8
dried porcini 25g
beef brisket 1.5kg, rolled and tied
banana shallots 6
carrots 350g, small ones
black peppercorns 12
bay leaves 4
thyme sprigs 6
swede 1, mashed to serve

Put the kettle on.
Set the oven at 230C/gas mark 8.
Put the dried porcini in a heatproof bowl, then pour the boiling water over it, cover with a plate and leave to soak for 25 minutes.
This will give you a deeply flavourful broth.

Place the rolled and tied brisket in a large casserole - lid off, then put it in the oven and roast for 25 minutes.
Peel and trim the shallots and halve them lengthways.
Scrub and halve the carrots lengthways.
Add them to the casserole together with the porcini and its broth, the peppercorns, bay and thyme, then cover with a lid.
Lower the heat to 160C and bake for 4 hours.

Remove the brisket from its broth and leave to rest for 10 minutes.
Put the casserole over a high heat, bring the contents to the boil and leave until reduced by about one-third.
Slice the brisket into thick pieces, dividing it between deep plates, then spoon over the broth and vegetables.

For the mashed swede
Peel a large swede and cut it into large chunks, pile it into a steamer basket or colander and cook over a pan of boiling water for 20 minutes until soft.
Tip into a bowl and crush thoroughly with a potato masher.
Add a thick slice of butter (about 30g) and lots of coarsely ground black pepper.
Beat firmly with a wooden spoon till fluffy.
Serve in generous mounds in the broth that surrounds the beef.

OR:
- Nigel Slater’s beef brisket recipes | Food | The Guardian