The FOODBOD POD

Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy welcomes us back to her home kitchen for an entire episode dedicated to how to manage sourdough starters and doughs in the cooler months. Elaine mixes up several different doughs while discussing the do’s and do not’s and what to do if a starter is underperforming and how to get the best from it. She also discusses the advantages of using loaf pans, including her favourite kind of pan – the Bundt Pan, originally designed for baking cakes and which come in various shapes and sizes, some of which are perfect for the festive season. Elaine continues to use up ingredients she finds in her kitchen cupboards including chocolate, za’atar, barberries and olive oil, demonstrating how add-ins can produce exciting and innovative sourdough results. 

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Join Elaine Boddy in her home kitchen for another Podbite, the shorter companion podcast to the main Foodbod Pod podcast series. In this episode Elaine looks forward to baking during both autumn and the festive season as she shops for ingredients to add to her bakes and anticipates what’s coming up in the podcast season for the remainder of the year.

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Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy welcomes back home cook and social media food influencer, Sophie Rushton-Smith whose Instagram and TikTok pages provide countless ideas and inspiration for quick, one-pan meals that are flavourful and delicious. Sophie’s inspiration comes from whatever she finds in her cupboards and the fridge coupled with several key ingredients she always has at hand to create fast, easy meals. A scientist in her professional life, Sophie has an encyclopaedic knowledge of ingredients and understands how to put them together to create deliciously easy meals that are different every time rather than sticking to rigid recipes. Elaine hosts Sophie in her home kitchen to prepare three easy vegetable dishes. There’s a plateful of carrot, broccoli, red onion and baby King Oyster mushrooms cooked in a honey and Ve-du-ya sauce and topped with a creamy fried egg. Then comes ramen noodles with the rest of the vegetables prepared in a ginger miso broth with crispy chilly oil to add a touch of crunch and spice. And finally, a simple fruit & burrata salad with an orange kefir dressing. It's an explosion of flavours!

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Bakery Development Manager at Matthews Cotswold Flour, Sophie Carey joins Elaine in her home kitchen to bake as well as talk about all things baking, having achieved so much since leaving university as the top student just a few short years ago and becoming a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Bakers, one of the City of London’s historic livery companies which traces its origins back to medieval times. But she does so much more, as she tells Elaine while preparing and baking two delicious recipes – the French delicacy chouquettes and an upside down salted honey pecan cake. Sophie has a top tip and advice for home bakers at every stage of the process drawn from her seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of baking, recipes, flour, ingredients and how to use them.

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Join Elaine Boddy for another Podbite, the shorter companion podcast to the main Foodbod Pod series. In this episode Elaine welcomes back expert pizza maker, author and Ooni Ambassador, Scott Deley as he concludes his masterclass in home pizza making. On this occasion Scott shows Elaine how to prepare and bake the “Red Top” – the classic Detroit deep pan pizza made with a focaccia dough rather than a Neapolitan base and including a “frico” cheese crown.

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Ooni Pizza Ambassador, UK Pizzaiolo of the year 2023 and author of “Scott’s Ooni Pizza Project”, Scott Deley visits Elaine Boddy in her garden to cook up and compare a variety of Neapolitan pizzas baked in his wood burning oven. We first met Scott in season 1 of The Foodbod Pod and in this episode he returns to give Elaine a masterclass in shaping, topping and baking pizzas and discusses the best ingredients and how to prepare his award-winning yeasted dough. Not to be outdone, Elaine offers Scott the opportunity to shape and work with two versions her own sourdough pizza recipe as they compare the two types of dough and bake various combinations, including an “upside down Margherita”. And all the dough is made with Matthews Cotswold Pizza Flour. If you love pizza you’ll love this episode!

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Join Elaine Boddy in her kitchen as she presents another Podbite, the shorter companion podcast to the main Foodbod Pod series. In this episode, Elaine prepares a sourdough sandwich loaf using honey and coconut water while looking forward to the next full-length episode of the podcast in which she’ll be welcoming pizza guru, author and Ooni Pizza Oven Ambassador, Scott Deley to her home.

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Join Elaine Boddy for another episode of The Foodbod Pod in which she meets Stu McDonald, the founder of high-quality peanut butter brand Manilife. Stu joins Elaine in her kitchen to discuss his passion for producing single origin nut butters that are made from only the best ingredients and tells the story of how Manilife came about. Elaine uses peanut butter as a key ingredient in two different sourdough recipes and gets Stu to shape and prepare the dough for baking while he also cooks her bean and peanut butter chilli. It’s an episode packed with a feast of flavours

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Join Elaine Boddy in her kitchen as she prepares three doughs for baking using a surprising choice of flour not normally associated with sourdough bread. Elaine also discusses a couple of meals she has made in her latest Podbite – the short podcast companion series to the main Foodbod Pod season.

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Join Elaine Boddy as she takes you on a tour of her favourite ingredients in her kitchen cupboards and prepares one of her appetising and delicious vegetarian meals. Elaine demonstrates how to cook the perfect grains without them becoming mushy along with some roasted vegetables in a basil oil. She also prepares her version of Loubia, a Lebanese dish of tomatoes, garlic, green beans and spices. Add to that a Tahini sauce and you have Elaine’s idea of food heaven – delicious dishes that will also appeal to non-vegetarians looking for an accompaniment to a main course.

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Join Elaine Boddy in her kitchen as she prepares food for the family for the week ahead in another Podbite – the short podcast companion series to the main Foodbod Pod season. On this occasion Elaine answers questions about storing sourdough, the best ways to keep it fresh and crusty and how to freeze the dough ahead of baking.

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Last year sourdough baker and food lover Anne Iarchy discovered she was celiac and had to change her diet dramatically. Not only did she have to cut out all foods containing gluten but she also had to adopt new ways of baking and develop gluten-free versions of her favourite bread from sourdough to challah as well as cakes and cookies. She also had to change the way she prepares foods and organises her kitchen in order to avoid cross-contamination – an issue she is acutely aware of when shopping for ingredients or eating out. Anne joins Elaine Boddy & David Treadway in the Foodbod Pod kitchen to discuss her journey, offer some advice and practical tips on how to live gluten-free and discusses how to prepare truly delicious gf sourdough and challah. Anne also prepares some tasty gf shortbread biscuits.

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Elaine Boddy is back in her kitchen mixing up more sourdough recipes in another Podbite – the short podcast companion series to the main Foodbod Pod season. On this occasion Elaine is getting doughs ready for an on-line sourdough class in order to show the various stages of preparation, fermentation and proving.

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Join Elaine Boddy as she welcomes David Treadway to her home kitchen and demonstrates how to make and bake sourdough with doughs at different stages of the process and discusses some of the issues home bakers face. Elaine has particular advice about fermentation and proofing times, how room temperature affects them and offers strategies and advice on how to manage them. There are two new recipes presented exclusively for the podcast using some surprising ingredients – a focaccia with wild garlic and Italian dressing and two versions of a fruit loaf using custard in both powder and ready-made form and both baked in loaf tins.

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In the first of a season of short Foodbod Pod Podbite companions to the main podcast series, Elaine Boddy invites you to join her in her kitchen as she puts together some new sourdough recipes and explains how she experiments with ingredients and comes up with ideas. It's a warm up for the next full edition of The Foodbod Pod due at the end of April 2024. 

Join Elaine Boddy for a brand new episode of The Foodbod Pod as she sets the agenda for a new season of podcasts all about food. Elaine and her producer and co-host David Treadway look back to the highlights of the last series and discuss what's coming up in the season ahead. And this time the focus will be on all things sourdough. There’ll also be other breads, gluten free options, pizza dough and all kinds of recipes for home bakers. Plus in this first episode Elaine has some important news for readers of her books about sourdough.

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Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy presents the second part of The Foodbod Pod’s festive celebration of A Lush Irish Christmas in which she and David Treadway return to Cherie Denham’s home kitchen where they are joined by Tracey Toner for some seasonal Irish cheer! Cherie and Tracey both hail from Northern Ireland: Cherie, who grew up in Co. Tyrone has thousands of followers to her Cherie Denham Cooks Instagram posts has just seen the publication of her first book, The Irish Bakery; Tracey lives and works from home in Co. Armagh where she runs her highly successful artisan jam and chutney business, The Lush Larder. Together they swap stories about growing up in Ireland, the local characters who came to call, life on the farm and the food and traditions as they prepare some delicious recipes for the festive table.

The conversation is littered with delightful memories, top tips, food and home cooking suggestions and a lot of laughter!

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Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy presents the first of two festive editions of the Foodbod Pod in which she and David Treadway return to Cherie Denham’s home kitchen where she is joined by Tracey Toner for some seasonal Irish cheer! Cherie and Tracey both hail from Northern Ireland. Cherie, who has thousands of followers to her Cherie Denham Cooks Instagram posts has just seen the publication of her first book, The Irish Bakery; Tracey lives and works from home in County Armagh where she runs her own highly successful artisan jam and chutney business, The Lush Larder. Together they swap stories about growing up in Ireland, the local characters who came to call, life on the farm and the food and traditions as they prepare some delicious recipes for the festive table.

The conversation is littered with delightful memories, top tips, food and home cooking suggestions and a lot of laughter!

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Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy presents episode eleven of the Foodbod Pod in which she and David Treadway meet the founders of Yum Bug, the start-up company that is on a mission to change our perceptions about eating crickets and other insects. Leo Taylor and Aaron Thomas explain that insects have long been a staple part of people’s diets – more than 2 billion people in over 80% of the world’s countries eat them regularly. Moreover, they are a sustainable superfood that are better for the environment than beef, pork or chicken and can deliver superior nutritional and health benefits. They are also delicious to eat. Elaine joins Leo and Aaron in their development kitchen and helps them prepare a couple of different cricket based dishes and discusses Yum Bug’s plans.

And there’s a return visit from Sophie Carey, Bakery Development Manager at Matthews Cotswold Flour as she prepares ramen noodles. Any one for a cricket and noodle stir fry? 

Plus there’s more top tips, food and home cooking ideas.

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Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy presents episode ten of the Foodbod Pod in which she and David Treadway meet Master Butcher, Simon Boddy. Simon is Elaine’s brother-in-law and has developed his on-line and retail butchery, The Best Butchers over the past 20 years with a focus on traditionally butchered meat and poultry and customer service. Specialising in quality meat, sausages, bacon and poultry produced on local farms with which he and his team have developed trusting relationships, the provenance of the meat is of the utmost importance. The Best Butchers dry ages its own beef and smokes and cures its own bacon from woodland pigs at its base in rural Buckinghamshire on the outskirts of Milton Keynes. Simon demonstrates how to prepare a shoulder of pork and discusses what goes into good sausages and beef burgers and tells Elaine about his journey following America’s barbecue route sampling different styles of food, marinades, smoking and preparation.

We also meet Jane Geoghegan, Marketing Manager at Delicious, the online food and recipe site and monthly print magazine that was named “Food Magazine of the Year” at the 2022 Guild of Food Writers Awards. Jane is unsurprisingly a self-confessed “foodie” and tells Elaine about her favourite family foods and why food is such an important part of her life.

And we return to Cherie Denham’s kitchen to learn her recipe and how she makes lemon curd.

Plus there’s top tips, what to do with leftovers and other great food tips and advice.

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