Vegetarian wellington: leeks, potatoes, chives, spring onion, cheese and cashews. Served with cauliflower cheese and steamed carrots. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🥧

Boxing Day pie: layers of turkey, roast ham, stuffing and cranberry in a hot water crust pastry #hobbybaker #homemade #Christmas #pie #foodie #Whatscooking 🎄🍜🍽️🥧

Happy Christmas, to those that do! Our traditional Christmas morning breakfast: homemade gravadlax, cream cheese and pumpernickel. The gravadlax was cured first with a beetroot, juniper and orange cure, then a brown sugar and dill cure. #hobbybaker #homemade #Christmas #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜🎄🎁

I did use the terrible meringue for a pavlova... turns out sufficient chantilly cream, rhubarb&plum coulis and fresh strawberries will cover up most crimes! #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #foodiesky #cakesky #dessert #whatscooking #meringue🍽️🍜🍰

Long slow and low bake for this meringue base for a pavlova... See you in the morning, poppet... (Please don't crack).. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #foodsky #Whatscooking #meringue 🍽️🍜

Baking for the school Christmas fair... Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, gingerbread sandwich cookies and millionaires shortbread with dark & white chocolate tree #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍰

Roast ham and fresh cranberry & quince sauce... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜

Lunch: golden kimchi, artichoke hearts, seeds, cashews and walnuts... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜 #fermented #fermentedfoods #kimchi I highly recommend the flavour pairing of artichoke and walnut...

These are the artisan breads that I make at my job. Sorry I took the picture a bit too far away. In the picture is my apprentice William. He autistic, but the best assistant that I ever had. Je t’aime William. 🥰

Hot bread on a cold, rainy, dismal day.. pumpkin seed sourdough loaf, Canadian stone ground flour #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #sourdough ##foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍞

First mince pies of the season (a bit too early but hey). Short crust with half almond flour, half wheat and rye, and spiced with cinnamon, cardamom and clove. Homemade mincemeat of course... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking #Christmas #spice 🍽️🍜❄️🎄🧑‍🎄

Bright, sunny windy morning for baking. Still loving the Canadian stone ground. Kitchen smells divine... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodie #Whatscooking #fermented 🍁🍞🍜🍽️

German inspired winter cake: rye flour, dark brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, quince and apple cake #hobbybaker #homemade #winter #cake #foodie #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜🍂🍁 #cinnamon

Good sourdough today. Nice ear. Canadian stoneground... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #foodiesky #whatscooking #breadsky #sourdough #fermented #fermentedfoods🍽️🍜🍞

If you ask a kid "how big is too big for a cookie?" in my experience, there is no upper limit #hobbybaker #homemade #cookie #foodiesky #foodies #whatscooking 🍽️🍜

11th birthday for the youngest. What no one tells you when you have children is: there is likely to be a need for making fondant versions of sports teams emblems. Not yet mastered, but if you close one eye and squint... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️ #cakesky #ManU ⚽

Pumpkin pie muffin with maple cream cheese icing #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜 #autumn #fall 🍁🍂

Birthday cakes for boy's football team this morning... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #cakesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍰

Brandy snap cups... filled with a lightly almond flavoured chantilly cream and fresh raspberries #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #dessert #whatscooking 🍽️🍜

Was given a couple of wonderful allotment-grown pumpkins by a friend. So... Seeds roasted with paprika and garlic... And pumpkin pie, with a walnut/almond crust. Sweet and spicy. Served with whipped cream. #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜 #allotment #autumn 🍁🍂

Today's golden kimchi includes coriander, quince and turmeric... In fact two sorts of quince, true quince grown in my friend's garden and Japanese quince from mine. Chillis and cabbage from the allotment... #hobbybaker #homemade #ferment #allotment #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️

Autumnal menu (despite an alarmingly warm day) Venison casserole served with spiced beetroot & red cabbage, potatoes in garlic butter and peas. Apple & blackberry crumble with cream. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜 #autumn #fall 🍁🍂

The pregnant DIL has been craving tiramisu. It doesn't photograph well, but it tasted delicious and satisfied her cravings... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️

Illusion cake - to feed 40 kids. The cholocate bar is a chocolate cake with italian meringue buttercream. The orange is a vanilla cake with chocolate orange ganche. The sandwich is a vanilla sponge, and non-egg meringue buttercream. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #cakesky #whatscooking 🍽️🍜

Dinner: dauphinoise potatoes and a salad. Simple but delicious. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #vegetarian #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜

Is there anything nice than bread and lovely french butter? #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #breadsky #sourdough #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️

Birthday cake for one of the sons: dutched cocoa chocolate cake layered with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream and espresso caramelised walnuts and a chocolate ganache drip... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #cakesky #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜🍰

Quince crumble slice. Served with chantilly cream. Erm, yum. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking🍽️🍜 #cooksky #autumn

Oh. No wonder I was feeling rough. Still, sourdough discard seed crackers with thyme and sumac. For those brave enough to run the gauntlet of potential infection via cracker 😆 #hobbybaker #homemade #cooksky #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking #ferment 🍽️🍜

Simple dinners this week whilst I make more chutneys... So chilli con carne (with peas for the heretics in the family) ... #hobbybaker #homemade #cookingsky #Whatscooking #foodie 🍽️🍜

I went rogue, made a Bakewell tart with quince pulp rather than raspberry jam (tradition in this house at least). Served with whipped cream. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Delighted with this minor achievement... Having never done them before, I made actually pretty good ciabatta... Served with a sweetcorn chowder #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #breadsky #Whatscooking 🍽️

Cooking, again with the Mzee. We picked a few handfuls of blackberries and found Russet apples free at a farm gate, so a gram/wholewheat flour pastry case and a thick layer of frangipane and done brown sugar... Autumn pie 🍁 🍎 #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️ #foraging

Quiche. Made with my dad. Wholemeal wheat and gram flour pastry. Bacon, leek and onion filling. Delicious with a salad... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️ #quiche

I got hold of some lovely quince... So quince jelly and membrillo #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️ #quince

Dinner... Satay turkey, broccoli and capsicum served with almond& coconut rice, kimchi and homegrown aubergine... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Sunday morning activities, and my favourite _mot du moment_ ... Glutney (chutney made from a glut of produce). So tomatoes, onions, runner beans, patty pan squash, other stuff #hobbybaker #homemade #allotment #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️

So, first attempt at ACV with the little apples that are to small to do anything else with... We shall see... #hobbybaker #homemade #ferment #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking

Eldest child requested comfort food for dinner: toad-in-the-hole, cauliflower cheese and kale. She was mighty impressed... (I was pretty impressed myself) #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️ #homecooking

This morning's fresh crusty loaf. Canadian stone ground strong white and a granary (70:30) #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

The aubergine crop is still going strong #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #gardening #foodiesky

Kimchi decant day... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️ #kimchi

And sandwich cookies (cardamom with a dark chocolate ganache) #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️

And sausage rolls. Meat and vegetarian.. #hobbybaker #homemade #sausagerolls #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️

It was my big brother's 50th yesterday... So I made him a party tea... The cake #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️

Today I've developed my new signature dessert... Poached pears (in white wine and cloves), cardamom Madeline biscuits and Chantilly cream. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Venison burgers, in freshly baked granary rolls, hand-cut white sweet potato fries (with fenugreek and smoked paprika), caramelised red onion and chestnut mushrooms. With a salad of peppers, cucumber, celery and cashew nuts. #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Dinner: Ottelenghi-inspired chicken with sumac, peppers and butter beans.. #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Sourdough standard loaf... #hobbybaker #homemade #SourdoughSeptember #sourdough #breadsky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️

Like there wasn't enough sugar floating around my house last week, yesterday I decided to make chocolate eclairs ... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking #patisserie 🍽️