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Blog archives: March 2019

Woodfired Steak with Chimichurri Sauce

March 21, 2019, 12:15 am

Woodfired Steak with Chimichurri Sauce - a delicious way of eating your steak, definitely one of our favourites. Skirt steak is a hard working muscle, usually used for slow-cooking or Cornish pasties but if you marinate it for a while and then cook it real quick, it's a great surprise…Read more »

Woodfired Harissa Paste

March 20, 2019, 7:26 pm

Woodfired Harissa Paste - What to do with some oldish peppers and chillies on a Wednesday afternoon when you've had enough office time. Rustle up some woodfired harissa paste with toasted coriander, fennel and cumin of course! If you don't have a woodfired oven, you can also do this on…Read more »

Woodfired Flammkuchen

March 14, 2019, 12:15 am

Woodfired Flammkuchen (or Tarte Flambé if you’re on the French side of the border) is a thin and delicious flatbread from the Alsace region along the French/German border. It is much like an Italian pizza bianca, baked at a high heat and covered with a delicious combination of crème fraiche,…Read more »

Woodfired Yorkshire Puddings

March 7, 2019, 12:15 am

Woodfired Yorkshire Puddings are now an irreplaceable part of our Roast Beef Sunday lunches. They are also now regularly seen on pub menus stuffed with sausages and onion gravy and at swanky parties served as mini puds and filled with rare roast beef and mustard or horseradish cream; the Yorkshire…Read more »

Portuguese Custard Tarts - one of our favourite tarts of all time!

March 6, 2019, 11:20 am

Ever since we travelled to Porto for a mini break a few years ago we have been trying to reproduce the delicious Pasteis de Nata we tasted all over the city. A different thing entirely to traditional English custard tarts, the thin, light, crisp pastry surrounding a soft, sweet filling…Read more »