By l.martin, on September 13th, 2011   Baking, Bread, Pastry, Sourdoughs, Tarts 
Last Sunday I had a market stall at the Den Bosch Smaakmarkt (http://www.bosch500.nl/nl/diner). I spent 3 days and nights baking to produce everything i wanted to sell, and sell it i did, all of it in fact. I only just remembered to keep a loaf of bread back for myself for dinner.
The bread was all based on my Basic Sourdough no. 2, using wholmeal spelt in place of white spelt. The Chocolate tart is from my Double Chocolate tart post, but with a pate sucre with no added cocoa.
The Lemon Tart recipe is also on my blog, the custard and Bakewell tart is not, but may be eventually
The meringues use a Swiss method of heated egg whites to produce a big, light, chewy meringue.
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By l.martin, on August 25th, 2011 Cooking, Everyday, Sourdoughs 
To make a good sour pizza dough, I use my own basic sourdough number 2 recipe with half the quantity, but instead of the final fold I push it out to a pizza shape on baking paper.
For the red sauce I reduce a tin of tomatoes to a thick paste with oregano, white pepper and salt and then purée.
Toppings can be anything, but in this case I used Italian sausage, mushrooms fried with garlic, mozzarella and taleggio.
I use a 14 kilo granite baking stone which takes an hour to heat to 230 degrees, I use a short handled peel to get the pizza onto the stone and bake time is 12 – 13 minutes.
By l.martin, on July 20th, 2011 Baking, Bread, Sourdoughs 
These rolls have been on a bit of a journey since Dan Lepards recipe. First scaled up and adjusted to be full sized loaves using levain in place of yeast; and now scaled back to rolls, but keeping the higher amount of wheat flour and the levain base.
This recipe makes nine rolls, but you can adjust it quite easily.
You will need:
100g very active levain 175g organic white flour 150g organic white spelt 50g yellow cornmeal 115g boiling water 230g cold water 4g Maldon salt
Pour the boiling water into a bowl and stream the cornmeal in while whisking furiously. When it’s well mixed, arrange neatly in the centre, cover and leave for 15 minutes. When ready, pour in the cold water and whisk to break up the corn mix. Check the temperature with your finger; it should . . . →Crusty spelt & corn rolls
By l.martin, on June 26th, 2011 Everyday, Sourdoughs, Supper Club 
A scaled down version of this dish will be the starter at the Roast Chicken & Red Wine supper club in August. This recipe however, is enough to feed four people as a main course. It’s a fiery soup, hot and smokey, offset beautifully by the sweet onions and sharp anchovies in the Pissaladière. If you don’t have a smoke oven, you can use a BBQ, or a grill/salamander.
For the soup
6 red peppers 2 red onions 6 cloves of garlic 4 large tomatoes 1 red chilli A chunk of smoked bacon 1tsp cayenne pepper Glass of white wine Optional: smoked paprika (if you don’t smoke the peppers this is a pretty good substitute)
For the Pissaladière
Around 300g sourdough dough, rested, folded etc. 1 very very large onion, or a number of smaller onions A handful of kalamata olives, stoned 10 – 15 fresh anchovies Olive oil Semolina for the peel/tray
Fire up the smoke oven/BBQ. . . . →Smoked and roasted red pepper soup with Pissaladière
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About Me I love food; cooking it, eating it and having prentious and mildly competative conversations about it. I also play guitar and enjoy the occasional glass of wine or seven.
Based in Tilburg, NL, this blog follows my adventures in food and cooking, trying to eat well in a land where you can buy a horse paste sausage from a vending machine.
For quality suppliers in and around the Tilburg area, see my page on Suppliers.
CHICKEN AND RED WINE?
Click here for my post on roast chicken and red wine
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