CIDER & SEAWEED

Cider & seaweed loaf

250g wholemeal spelt flour

250g strong white bread flour

1 tsp salt

14g dried yeast

3 tbsp chopped dried seaweed

150ml sour milk / buttermilk

1tsp honey

250ml cider

Warm the milk and honey

Add to the flours, salt, yeast & seaweed

Add the cider and combine

Knead on a floured surface 1 min and return to the clean bowl

Cover and leave in warm place 1 hour

Knead 1 min and leave a further 30 mins

Shape into a ball and put on a floured baking sheet, dust with plenty more flour

Bake 240°C for 25mins

By mid-morning it would be stained with butter and honey. 

BANANA & BLACK GARLIC

Baked banana

1 banana

Juice & zest of ½ lime

Drizzle honey

15ml rum

1 clove black garlic, finely chopped

Peel the bananas and halve lengthways. Sprinkle the lime zest, juice and drizzle the honey.  Scatter with garlic and pour over rum. Put in an oven preheated to 220°C and bake for 15 minutes.

Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl

With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there

She would merengue and do the cha-cha

Copacabana Lyrics

LEMON & CHEESE

Lemon pickle & Wensleydale cheese on crusty bread

* 1 tbsp yellow mustard seeds

* 1 tsp cumin seeds 

* Small handful curry leaves

* 2 unwaxed lemons, chopped

* 3tbsp caster

* 1 small chilli, deseeded & finely sliced

Fry the mustard & cumin till they start to pop

Add the curry leaves for 1 minute then the rest of the ingredients

Cook for 10 minutes

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BLACK OLIVE & DARK CHOCOLATE

Black olive & dark chocolate tapenade

100g pitted black olives

10g melted dark chocolate

15g of anchovy fillets, drained

2 cloves of black garlic

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

½ tsp wholegrain mustard

Black pepper

1 tsp finely chopped rosemary

2 tsp Cocoa Nibs

Finely chop & mix all the ingredients

Artist, typographer, designer, critic, children’s author & amateur botanist; Peter Campbell.

GREEN OLIVE & WHITE CHOCOLATE

Green Olive & white chocolate scones

* 40g white chocolate, chopped

* 40g green olives. Chopped

* 10 scratches of nutmeg

Add to a scone recipe for 8

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Adam Smyth writing about A humument: A treated Victorian novel 

EGG & APPLE

Apple salsa & fried egg on toast

* ¼ Granny Smith apple, finely chopped

* ¼ cucumber, finely chopped

* Small handful of coriander, roughly chopped

* 1 spring onion, finely chopped

* ¼ green chilli, finely chopped

* ½ lime

* Salt & pepper

* Toast

* Fried egg

Mix all the salsa ingredients together & pile onto toasted sourdough

Top with a fried egg

“A short back and sides please - actually just shave it all off”

COCONUT & ANGOSTURA BITTERS

Coconut water & angostura bitters

Add a couple of drops of bitters to a glass of coconut water

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AVOCADO & MARMITE

Avocado and marmite toast

Brush the bread with olive oil & place on a hot griddle pan, repeat on the other side

Thinly spread marmite & top with avocado

Sprinkle with chilli flakes & lemon

“Bring the kids over and they can make playdough”

THE PUNCH

CHESTNUT HONEY & SCHEZWAN PEPPER

Roast chestnuts with chestnut honey and Schezwan pepper

* Chestnuts
* Chestnut honey
* Schezwan pepper

Roast the chestnuts 
Toss in a frying pan with honey and pepper

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