The plum trees are productive... Plum jam today #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #foodie #Whatscooking🍽️🍜

Leavers' party chocolate cupcakes in a black and gold theme.. Dutched-cocoa cupcakes, black vanilla icing and gold sprinkles. #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #cake ... Black icing is harder than you might imagine... Vanilla ermine buttercream for the win!

What summer evenings are made for... Cream, strawberries and raspberries, amaretti biscuits.. And a cold beer. #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #foodie #foodsky #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜🍓🍺

Fresh bread, people. Come get it whilst it's warm..! Sourdough: Canadian stoneground, ACV, linseed, sunflower seed, chia seed... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodie #Whatscooking #ferment

I've trained pretty hard this week and feel I deserve a proper lunch today. Salad of rocket and cucumber, goats cheese, nuts and seeds... Yum. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜

Potato crust quiche, with green beans and truffle-infused saucisson sec... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #foodiesky #Whatscooking

Trifle: using up cake offcuts, mulberries, raspberries and strawberries from the garden, fresh cream whipped with vanilla and some pecan and Brazil nuts #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #cakesky #foodie #Whatscooking

The gooseberry harvest is getting going... I have a LOT of gorgeous gooseberries... Hit me up with your best ideas #cooksky! #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #Whatscooking #foodie

Local festival has a cake competition. The theme is "local produce" and I also happen to be a member of a community allotment... Here is my contribution... 🤞 A cake that shouts "unfulfilled Bake Off ambitions' #hobbybaker #homemade #homegrown #gbbo #allotments #cakesky

The mulberry tree is giving the loveliest fruit this year... #hobbybaker #home-grown

My strawberries are beginning to ripen... #hobbybaker #homegrown #summer

Plum and frangipane tart #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodie #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍰

Used the rhubarb pulp from the rabarbasaft to make rhubarb and ginger slice... Beautiful with some homemade cranberry ice-cream... 🍰🍽️🍜 #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking

Today I've made a huge stash of rabarbasaft (Danish 🇩🇰 rhubarb cordial) and it's wicked tasty... and beautiful... It's my fave summer drink... #hobbybaker #homemade #summer #rhubarb

Spaghetti meatballs... Youngest has been away on camp and it's his fave. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #foodiesky #Whatscooking🍜🍽️

Today's sourdough looks and smells, frankly, marvellous... Half Canadian stoneground strong white, half stoneground wholemeal from the water mill at Dunster Castle ... with sesame seeds and milled golden linseed #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #ferment #sourdough 🍞🍽️🍜

The sun is shining and the elderflower is frothy and smells divine... So cordial... #hobbybaker #homemade #summer #cordial

Sunday morning sourdough loaf... Canadian stoneground strong white with homemade ACV and sunflower seeds... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodie #cooksky #ferment #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍞🌻

Youngest wanted to make pasta from scratch... So fresh egg homemade tagliatelle with chicken meatballs, dill, cream and gran padarno.... Salad created by the daughter.. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #cooksky #Whatscooking #fresh #Pasta

Chilli con carne, kachambari, guacamole, some crazy tasty lime and sour cream flavoured tortilla chips and cheese. Comfort food for the end of a long week and stupid & depressing politics... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #cooksky #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜🫣🗳️

I made kardemummabullar! Swedish 🇸🇪 cardamom buns... They were delicious... #hobbybaker #homemade #bakesky #foodie #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🥐

MIL's birthday cake... Coconut cakes layered with mango curd and lime Italian meringue buttercream #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #baking #foodiesky #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜🎂🧁

Today's sourdough loaf, stoneground Canadian 🇨🇦 strong white, some malt, sunflower 🌻 seeds... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #breadsky #cooksky #fermented

Peppers stuffed with lentils and smoked tofu... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodsky #cooksky #Whatscooking #vegetarian

Roast chicken, peppers stuffed with lentils and smoked tofu, new potatoes, radishes with dill and a greekish salad...

Glorious sunshine today and a beautiful walk in the bluebell woods. So salad for dinner... Pickled aubergine, peppers, goats cheese, mushroom, rocket, cucumber etc .. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking #salad #sunshine

Saag aloo and tofu curry. Yum. Served with nuts and seeds... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #vegetarian #Whatscooking

Family favourite: spicy pasta salad... Fusili, kidney beans, black beans, sweetcorn, red onions, tomatoes, coriander leaf, a LOT of garlic, olive oil, tandoori spice blend... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜

Cake for the daughter's party last night... 🍓Strawberry and vanilla 🎂 Vanilla sponge, stabilised Chantilly, fresh strawberries and white chocolate shards... #hobbybaker #homemade #cakesky #foodie

Hot fresh loaf for lunch... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #bread #Whatscooking #foodie 🍞🍜🍽️

Quiche: bacon and onion. With cauliflower cheese, kale, peas and sweetcorn... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #baking

Oh man, was that delicious. And the teenage daughter was most pleased... #hobbybaker #homemade #cake #foodie #cakesky #baking

Newly minted teenager in the house! Ready for family party tonight... Four layer gateau of coffee and walnut cake and Italian meringue buttercream. #hobbybaker #homemade #cake #cakesky #coffee

Ah well so, it really _is_ the elixir... Even the child horrified by all fermented foods absolutely loves it...

Dinner tonight was all the guy-friendly stuff... Garlic, ginger, scallions, broccoli, quinoa, lentils, kimchi, cashew nuts, shot sauce, miso, seeds and peppered mackerel... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #foodsky #ferment

Kombucha experiment day: my standard green tea kombucha with a second ferment with plums and ginger bug. It'll either be brilliant and the ultimate elixir, or kill me stone dead... Let's find out.. #hobbybaker #homemade #ferment #kombucha #fermentedfoods

Sourdough poppyseed baguettes. Amazing crunch to the crust. Can't wait to see the inside and taste them... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #Baguette #foodie #foodsky #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜🍞

Homemade Easter eggs: dark chocolate filled with homemade marshmallow whites and orange jelly yolks... #hobbybaker #homemade #Easter #chocolate #foodie

Traditional Easter meal. Today lamb and all the veggies... #hobbybaker #homemade #homecooking #foodie #Whatscooking #Easter #lamb

Gluten and dairy free tiramisu #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #gluten-free #dairy-free #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜

What to cook when your family can't eat gluten or dairy... This is almond flour, banana, dates, eggs and dark chocolate... Looks terrible, tasted great. #hobbybaker #homemade #cakes #chocolate #foodie #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🧁

For unknown reasons, on a day of a big old work meeting, I thought I'd make bagels. Sourdough, nigella & chia seed, Canadian strong stone ground, sesame bagels. With (homemade) gravadlax. #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #Bagels #salmon #weeknightDinners #foodie 🍽️🍜🍞

Quiches for dinner. Vegetarian: baby leeks (from the allotment) and white bean. Meat: bacon and onion. Pastry: 1/2 wheat, 1/6 soya, 1/6 chickpea 1/6 rye flours. #hobbybaker #homemade #home-grown #baking #foodie #Whatscooking

Happy mother's day to the mothers. Last night the 11yo and 12yo made me dinner. Steak and (homemade) chips with salad. Freshly squeezed orange juice. Orange and chocolate muffins. It was delicious and amazing. And I felt really appreciated. #hobbybaker #homemade #kids

Speedy chocolate gateaux for family dinner: dark chocolate sponge layers, red and black currant coulis between them and dark chocolate ganache... 1h20 from start to finish including clean down, no recipe.. Eaten in about 10 mins... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking #cake #chocolate...

Kombucha day: mixing ginger bug and juniper into my homebrewed kombucha. Which sounds like it could be rather nice... #hobbybaker #homemade #ferment #kombucha #experimenting

Turkey burritos: turkey drumstick, pressure cooked then the meat sauteed for a long long time with red onions, garlic, capsicums, mushroom, ground coriander/cumin/ginger/paprika/sumac/chilli Served on tortilla with refried beans, cheese, seeds, rocket, jalapeno #hobbybaker #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜

Dinner of smoked peppered mackerel, some toasted sourdough and a salad of chickpeas, sweetcorn, lettuce, celery, peppers and a soy/chilli dressing. Then a pineapple, just how my daddy carved it when I was a kid... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking

Homemade ciabatta with sausage and bean casserole... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍞🍜🍽️

Lovely looking loaf this morning... Sourdough, mostly Canadian stone ground white with a little soya flour, and chia seed. #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #bread #ferment #Whatscooking #foodie #foodiesky🍽️🍜🍞