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 🍽️

So I was commissioned to make an 80th birthday cake. I am not a professional and that seems like a lot of cake. The brief was for a chocolate, a lemon and a fruit cake. With a general floral theme. So here was my best effort... #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodie #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️

Massive baking day here... I'll post some of that in a while, but making icing rose cupcakes. The real rose inspiration and my attempts... #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Still riffing on the aubergine theme... moussaka tonight... served with kale and edamame beans... #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Spiced aubergines and tofu, with bean and corn salad for dinner #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Attempting melanzane sott’olio (aubergine in olive oil) for the first time (with a view to recreating the 💯 best sandwich I've ever had). Homegrown aubergine and rosemary with French garlic. #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️

Big birthday cake for my 2yo niece... teaching myself to pipe roses... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #whatscooking #cakesky 🍽️🍰

The tomatoes in hanging baskets are also doing fantastically this year... #hobbybaker #homegrown #locavore #allotment

Pear, ginger and chocolate cream Charlotte. Made with last year's pears that i canned with cloves and white wine. #hobbybaker #homemade #home-grown #foodiesky #foodie #dessert

Been on holiday, came home to find some lovely aubergines growing in the garden. I think moussaka is needed.... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #allotment #homegrown

Camping; so chicken fricassee, green salad and excellent local bread

Progeny's photography

Good year for soft fruit growing and foraging

Seeded loaf, cuts very nicely today. #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️

I'll make anything into a "lasagne" ... this one contains (amongst other things) left over chipolata sausages, refried beans, coleslaw & pesto. I appreciate that sounds disgusting, but it was actually very nice... Served with a green salad and lashings of grans padano...

Dough balls with garlic butter and couscous salad... Delish starter created by the children... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #Whatscooking #foodiesky 🍽️

Courgette, halloumi and smoked tofu crust-less quiche (with garlic, sumac and milled linseed), served with runner and French beans, red cabbage kimchi and garlic new potatoes. Courgette, beans and potatoes grown on the allotment.. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️ #cooksky #allotment