Cooking Videos!!!

[Ollie]

Hi

I have been looking EVERYWHERE for buckwheat, and can't seem to find it. I think I'll just order it online from some health food shop.

Doves Farm produce it, and can be found in the health/wholefood shops where I live. Also, it is easy to get on the net - there are several suppliers, and prices.

As for date paste, the closest I have come to in the UK is a box of dried dates; a solid block - it works.

You cannot "replace" the dates with nuts but you can add a cup of nuts to the recipe if you are not sensitive to them. ...

Let me suggest that you just try the recipe as it is before trying to change it.

I had similar thoughts to Balberon, putting in seeds and nuts for a protein morning snack, I'll give that a go later. Today I'm following your advice and making it as shown in the video, for a 'sweet' afternoon snack.

It is an interesting thought

How about giving up the idea of replicating wheat type breads and just create a cuisine around a flour that has its own properties and work with that?

as I was going down a similar route to Sid. I'll go play along parallel tracks and see what comes out best.

Added: Date and walnut cake is a common commodity in the UK.

 

[Laura]

Like I said, I'll be doing a few more videos on buckwheat and I'll explain a lot of my evolving philosophy about it as I go.


ADDED: I hope that all of you will share this youtube video with your friends on Facebook. Let's start gently spreading the detox Word!

 

[Gertrudes]

Hi

I have been looking EVERYWHERE for buckwheat, and can't seem to find it. I think I'll just order it online from some health food shop.

Doves Farm produce it, and can be found in the health/wholefood shops where I live. Also, it is easy to get on the net - there are several suppliers, and prices.

Thank you Trevrizent, that was certainly helpful.

As for date paste, the closest I have come to in the UK is a box of dried dates; a solid block - it works.

I haven't found the paste either, but that solid block you came across might just do the trick. I have at my doorstep an offlicense which sells the best dates I have ever eaten, I think I will just mash them into a pure, and add whole ones.

 

[Human]

Great video indeed!

I don't cook and have never tried to cook either, mainly because there has always been somebody else who has been cooking for me.
But this video series surely is a big motivator to start learning how to cook, and it will also be my "teacher" in the beginning.

My wife (she's a very good cook) is terribly sceptical about my dietary changes, but with your help I'm sure I will be able to show her "the cousine of health". ;D

Thanks.

 

[sitta]

This video is great
Oh i wish i could sit there with you and eat this yuummmy looking bread
I just go shopping for ingredients and bake it myself

 

[Laura]

You don't have to mash the dates. Just chopped dates will do. When using whole dates, I cut them into 3 or 4 pieces each. Small, but not microscopic! Or, just chop them with the knife or food processor.

 

[theos]

Like I said, I'll be doing a few more videos on buckwheat and I'll explain a lot of my evolving philosophy about it as I go.

ADDED: I hope that all of you will share this youtube video with your friends on Facebook. Let's start gently spreading the detox Word!

More videos? What a relief. This will be a great alternative to the "food porn" shown on the Food Network and other cooking shows.

 

[Ollie]

You cannot "replace" the dates with nuts but you can add a cup of nuts to the recipe ...

Having just mixed it up and put it in the oven, I can understand why the dates cannot be "replaced". I'll report back once it's cooked.

I haven't found the paste either, but that solid block you came across might just do the trick. I have at my doorstep an offlicense which sells the best dates I have ever eaten, I think I will just mash them into a pure, and add whole ones.

I used up the half block that I had left, and added the rest as dried dates - got from a wholefood shop. And,

... Just chopped dates will do. When using whole dates, I cut them into 3 or 4 pieces each. Small, but not microscopic! Or, just chop them with the knife or food processor.

that's what I did, cut into approx 3 pieces.

I await with interest the 'few more videos on buckwheat'. :)

Update: the cake tastes delicious, I'm eating a slice whilst it's still warm :) I made enough for one loaf by halving the ingredients - it's one of the easiest cakes I've made, go for it.

 

[Steve M.]

Laura wrote:

Let me suggest that you just try the recipe as it is before trying to change it.

Will do! I'm really looking forward to the next installation!

 

[slowone]

Just to report. Cooked it and eaten it!!! :D Well two slices anyway.

Fwiw I don't like dates and I don't like Buckwheat :( But I did like this :D

Fab. Looking forward to more.

 

[Turgon]

Great video, will try it definitely. I am actually trying to achieve a gluten free recipe for chapati style bread which can be cooked everyday in about 15-20 minutes but failing miserably. The buckwheat on it own is just not malleable enough. Tried adding bajri grain and chickpea flour but to no avail. The binding and malleable properties of wheat is so hard to replicate. Any suggestions?

Sid

Hi Sid,

You can use buckwheat for chapati style bread. If you follow Laura's recipe for buckwheat crepes it's very similar. Just this morning I used this buckwheat flour that seems a bit lighter (can't remember the exact name, but next time I go to Bulk Barn I'll find out).

I added roughly 1/2 cup of Buckwheat flour, 1 cup of rice milk, a little bit of Olive oil and salt, and used olive oil (just a small amount) to cook it on the pan, and it turned out almost exactly like a chapati. I cook it on about medium (or just a little less) and they were perfect. Cook them until they seem like its getting dry on the pan and just keep flipping them until both sides seem 'right'. You can eat them just like a chapati, and reminded exactly of my friends whole wheat chapati, but thankfully, without the wheat and easier to make too!

The mixture itself before you pour it, shouldn't be too thick but not too watery either, but play around with it and you should get something similar in less than 15 minutes for sure.

 

[Laurentien2]

Thank for the recipe Laura, I will try it soon. I use buckwheat all the time for my muffin combining it with quinoa and brown rice floor. I should share the recipe, it is pretty simple and the kid love it. I vary the fruit I use sometime combining pear and chocolate, orange and date, apple and cranberries. I want to experience with lemon and poppy seed if I can find the last bio. You don't use baking powder in your bread, is it because it contain gluten, because I use Red Mill gluten free and non-aluminum baking powder and soda. Even if I can't put name to the faces on the video, it was nice to see you all.

 

[Helle]

Thank you so much for this, you're such an inspiration to look at / listen to !

 

[sitta]

Just to report. Cooked it and eaten it!!! :D Well two slices anyway.

Fwiw I don't like dates and I don't like Buckwheat :( But I did like this :D

Fab. Looking forward to more.

I've made it too :D. Taste absolutely fantastic and quit exotic. It is so easy and fast to make, that's very important too.
My mother loves it also.
Hugs, kisses and many thanks Laura

 

[Laura]

Ya'll be sure to put your comments/experiences on the youtube page. We are going to have a whole series of these shorts and we hope that the detox diet will spread like a virus!