Kimchi day : featuring white cabbage, kohlrabi, carrot, spring onions, dill seed and nigella seed, garlic, ginger, gochugaru chilli and glutinous rice flour... #hobbybaker #homemade #kimchi #fermentedfood #ferment #foodie #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️

Pizza without the wheat... Red lentil base, melanzane sott'olio (home-grown and homemade), corn, black olives, capers, pepperoni, 2 cheeses... #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #pizza #Whatscooking 🍽️🍜🍕

Chilli, guac, corn and coconut rice. Yum. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking #comfortfood 🍜🍽️

At child D's request: bacon and onion quiche which a herb short crust pastry #hobbybaker #homemade #bakesky #foodie #Whatscooking #quiche 🍽️🍜🥧

Burger night... Homemade brioche buns, antelope burgers, slaw, homemade hummus #hobbybaker #homemade #burger #foodie #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🍔

Dinner of roasted white and purple sweets potatoes, carrots, peppers, mushrooms, chickpeas and halloumi. With a tzatziki and tomato relish. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking #vegetarian 🍽️🍜💚

Experimental but delicious... Short crust pastry, date/apple/raisin/cinnamon/nutmeg/ginger puree and then a frangipane with pecans on top. Served with Chantilly cream. #hobbybaker #homemade #dessert #foodie #Whatscooking 🍜🍽️🥧

Chia seed sourdough loaf... Smells really interesting, lovely consistency to the dough #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodie #ferment #Whatscooking🍽️🍜🍞

Olive bread... For dinner with sausage casserole. Sourdough minus the bulk ferment because I forgot to make it yesterday! #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍞🍜🍽️

Saturday morning sourdough batard... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #foodie #Whatscooking 🙏🍽️🍜🍞

Husband's birthday today, so his traditional cake: coconut and cherry. French buttercream between the layers. Covered with dark chocolate ganache. #hobbybaker #homemade #cake #foodie #Whatscooking 🎂🍜🍽️

Marmalade day! The house smells divine... #hobbybaker #homemade #SevilleOrange #marmalade 🍊

The vigorous and vital starter continues its good work... Today I used Canadian 🍁 stone ground strong white, added in baking powder, ACV... Nintendo switch for scale. #hobbybaker #homemade #sourdough #ferment #breadsky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍞🍜🍽️

So I put some concerted time, love and life into my starter. Foolishly cooking without my glasses, picked up the wrong flour jar and used self raising flour not strong white. But look at this Jar of preserved lemons for scale. #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #sourdough #ferment #Whatscooking 🍞🍽️🍜

Ostrich!! Dinner tonight (a nod to the old homeland) was ostrich steak. Served with boiled potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, sauteed mushrooms and spiced red cabbage (with herbs, seeds and cashews). And a creamy peppercorn sauce. Delicious. #hobbybaker #homemade #foodie #Whatscooking #ostrich 🍜🍽️

Today's sourdough came out a bit flat. I've been playing about with adding ACV and kefir to my dough and it might have been a bit wet. But the taste and texture is proper magic... #hobbybaker #homemade #breadsky #ferment #foodie #foodiesky #Whatscooking #sourdough 🍞🍽️🍜

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