No bread is an island

...entire of itself. (With apologies to John Donne!)
I live and breathe breadmaking. I’m an evangelist who would like everyone to make his or her own bread. I want to demystify breadmaking and show it as the easy everyday craft that it is. To this end I endeavour to make my recipes as simple and as foolproof as I possibly can.

I call my blog 'No bread is an island' because every bread is connected to another bread. So a spicy fruit bun with a cross on top is a hot cross bun. This fruit dough will also make a fruit loaf - or Chelsea buns or a Swedish tea ring...
I'm also a vegan, so I have lots of vegan recipes on here - and I'm adding more all the time.

Tuesday, 16 January 2024

STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Ingredients:
2 large field mushrooms

Mushroom pate

Pesto

Cayenne pepper to taste


Method:

Using the back of a spoon, spread the inside of the mushroom with the pate, and cover that with a teaspoon - or less, you don’t need a lot - of pesto. Squash any stalk - broken up a bit - into the pesto. Sprinkle with Cayenne pepper.

Microwave for about 5 minutes, until the mushroom is soft. Serve with potato wedges and veg.


Cost (early 2024):
Mushrooms 49p/100g, so - 250g = £1.25
Tartex pate (from my local HFS) is £3.50/200g and you'll need about 50g = 90p
1 teaspoon vegan pesto = 20p
Total £2.35

Bottom: covered with homemade passata