She noticed that when we collectively slowed down, there was more time to consider baking as a pastime. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. I've baked a couple of the loaf cakes in this book, freezing all but a slice or two when they were right out of the oven as most are kind of just for me and a guest or two with coffee or tea.

It’s exactly this attitude that sets A Good Day to Bake apart from so many other cookbooks that focus on simplicity. Delicious galette but next time I'm going to add more carrots since I felt it was a bit thin and wasn't substantial enough to eat as a meal even with a salad along side. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Benjamina Ebuehi: It's so beautiful and just so rewarding hearing how baking can be that thing for so many people, especially over the last few years that the whole world has had, that baking has been something that they've been able to turn to, to unwind as a distraction and to just kind of switch off from the world. Abuehi is supremely creative and eye-widening recipes include the goose fat potato focaccia, lemon and chamomile buns, sticky toffee treacle tart, and more.For me, a non-baker, it helped me see the potential meditative quality and joy that can be found in baking.

It's clear that she's looking to share the "therapeutic and comforting" nature of baking with her readers. Suzy Chase: In the cookbook, you wrote, "Peeling ribbons of parsnips, scooping out the seeds of squash, pulling back the thick skin of plantain are small, but necessary steps that I like to be fully present for in anticipation of what's to come. Benjamina Ebuehi : It's funny because when I chat to food friends or people who are really into baking and cookbooks, vanilla is not necessarily seen as boring to them. We have it all the time, and so I really wanted to include it in a way that was, I guess, different than the way that we grew up eating it or that my family would be used to having it and just showing its versatility and how much it can be used in so many different recipes.

My baking inspiration - I was so thrilled to see a second book from Benjamina and this one mixes bread, biscuits, and cakes (my cake Bible is still her first book - “A new way to cake” should be on everyone’s shelf! And, as accomplished and skilful as Ebeuhi is, the recipes in this book are accessible enough to allow those without her expertise to understand just how comforting and rewarding baking can be. It’s their very existence that serves to both satisfy the urge to bake, but also answer the question we find ourselves asking night after night: What should I make for dinner? And just with the pressures of modern life, it's just so easy just to rush our way through all of that, and so just reminding ourselves to be present in moments of baking and cooking I think just allows us to appreciate things in such a different way.

Miso and white chocolate seem to be such opposites as ingredients -- one with its salty-umaminess, the other with its creamy sweetness -- but I think it's their diametric opposition that make them the perfect pair as Ebuehi has shown us in this recipe. Both DH and DD, who is on a rigid Keto diet, polished off this delight, and the grandsons never guessed they weren't loading up on a sugar hit.I used Ovaltine instead of Horlicks because I am trying to avoid palm oil, so mine was a bit darker. You want it just to not overpower the flavor of the spices, so something just mellow to bring it all together. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.