Author Archives: Ben

Savoury French Toast

Adapting Tartine’s French Toast recipe with a savoury twist.

Roast Potatoes and Red Wine Vinegar

The “Roast Potato” blog’s recipe for roast potatoes includes a splash of red wine vinegar, and it’s brilliant.

Cooking with Reddit

A quick link to Reddit’s epic recipe sharing thread of 2010.

Breakfast Tomato Sauce

A quick recipe for a sweet, spicy, chunky tomato sauce to accompany breakfast.

Mozzarella Chili Mash

Ben’s two-layer mash recipe, separated with mozzarella and chili.

Dying Baking (Eric RIP)

A followup on baking the first loaf with Eric the natural starter, where not all went to plan. Supplemented by a successful recipe for Beer Bread, made with a local IPA.

Living Baking

I attend a lab all about cultivating your own bread yeast, by creating and regularly feeding a natural, flavour-filled bread starter. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out there’s quite a bit to it.

Beautiful food photography from Evan Sung

Evan Sung takes outstanding photographs of food. (via. Notcot)

Elsewhere: Ben Darlow cooks steak

Friend of ours Ben Darlow has blogged about how he learned to cook steak

Thick tomato peperoncini sauce

A passion for heirloom—heritage—tomatoes leads to the accidental creation of a magnificent tomato sauce for pasta.