The FOODBOD POD

Elaine Boddy and David Treadway discuss sourdough starters and flours.

Elaine Boddy presents another Podbite, the shorter companion series to The Foodbod Pod. In this episode she looks forward to autumn and festive baking.

Elaine Boddy welcomes industry baking expert Sophie Carey, Bakery Development Manager at Matthews Cotswold Flour to her home kitchen to make and bake two delicious recipes and discuss all things baking.

Elaine Boddy welcomes award winning pizzaiolo Scott Deley to her home garden to be given a masterclass in shaping and baking pizza in his wood fired Ooni oven as they compare yeasted and sourdough versions of the famous Neapolitan style pizza.

Elaine welcomes Manilife peanut butter founder Stu McDonald to her kitchen to talk about his passion for single origin nut butters and to prepare sourdough rolls and a bean chilli packed with flavours.

Elaine welcomes you to her kitchen as she discusses her favourite ingredients and prepares perfectly cooked spelt grains with roasted vegetables and recreates the Lebanese speciality Loubia served with a Tahini sauce. Delicious food that will appeal to vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike.

Elaine Boddy welcomes Anne Iarchy back to her home kitchen to discuss the impact a celiac diagnosis has had on her food, lifestyle and baking – from sourdough to challah to shortbread cookies.

Elaine welcomes David to her home kitchen to demonstrate the different stages in making sourdough bread and offers two new recipes using some surprising ingredients for focaccia and tea bread.

Elaine and David set the scene for a new season of food podcasts that will have an emphasis on making and baking sourdough at home but will also feature other food and breads of all kinds.

Elaine and David are joined by Cherie Denham and Tracey Toner for the first part of some festive food and fun as they prepare for A Lush Irish Christmas and swap stories about their childhood memories and traditions of growing up in Northern Ireland. Tracey still lives in County Armagh from where she runs her highly successful home-made jams and chutneys business, The Lush Larder and Cherie has just seen the publication of her first book, The Irish Bakery while continuing to enjoy thousands of followers to her Instagram posts at Cherie Denham Cooks.

Elaine and David visit The Master Butchers to watch Simon Boddy butcher a shoulder of pork and discuss what goes into the best sausages and the benefits of dry aged, smoked and cured meats. Jane Geoghegan from Delicious magazine discusses her food favourites and we’re back in Cherie Denham’s kitchen to watch her prepare lemon curd.

Elaine and David meet Shashi and Sanjay Aggarwal, the mother and son team behind the Spice Kitchen, winner of two prestigious Gift of the Year Award awards. Their first flavour packed collection of recipes highlights dishes from around the world with advice and detailed instructions for how to create and use some of the best-known spice blends. Join Elaine in the Spice Kitchen as she finds out how to prepare and cook two delicious vegetarian curries in the company of Mamma Spice.