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Seeded ‘White’ Bread

The NHS website advises that: “Diets high in ultra-processed foods have been linked to an increased risk of health conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease”. This begs the question: “Why is nearly all commercially made bread in this country ultra-processed, including that used in NHS hospitals?” It is a great shame that the government isn’t more proactive in doing something about it.

It’s for this reason that I make my own bread. Wholemeal bread is far better for us than white, there’s just one problem: I don’t like wholemeal toast! This recipe is my attempt at a compromise. A white-flour bread that also has a decent amount of fibre.

It’s a great recipe – have a look…

Barbecue Snack Sticks

This fermented snack stick uses both a barbecue rub recipe and a commercial sauce. The sauce, while low in pH, is not sufficient to lower the pH to a safe range without fermentation. The sauce in the recipe, Sweet Baby Ray’s Original Barbecue Sauce, was chosen for its wide availability. If desired, it can be replaced with a similar sauce.

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Get the recipe…

Pancetta di Larbo

This is a rolled pancetta – pancetta arrotolata – from a recipe by my mate Larbo who now lives in the US.

It’s unusual as it’s flavoured with orange zest and fennel – not the traditional flavours you expect in pancetta.

The meat was dry-cured for 12 days, rolled and tied, and has been hanging in my air-drying fridge for 27 days.

Allowing for the removal of the skin when it was rolled, it’s lost 22% of its original weight – in supermarket terms it’s been made with 127gms of meat per 100gms pancetta.

Here’s Laurence’s recipe:

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