Saffron Orange Polenta Cake (Harry Eastwood)

Saffron Orange Polenta Cake Recipe

You may be familiar with Harry Eastwood from her Channel 4 series, “Cook Yourself Thin”. Her book Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache is full of cakes made from vegetables. I’m not going for obvious Hallowe’en references this year but I can promise you this blog post features bleeding and stabbing. If you can’t face the full [Read on...]

Food Photography at The Scandinavian Kitchen

I’ve often thought that relationships only survive visits to Ikea because men look forward to the hot dogs on the way out to the car park. However, it wasn’t until my trip to The Scandinavian Kitchen in the West End last week that I discovered that this wasn’t just a final money-grabbing ruse by [Read on...]

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cupcakes from Harry Eastwood’s Red Velvet & Chocolate Heartache

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Can pumpkin puree be used to make frosting for cupcakes? Absolutely.See below how I was inspired by this Harry Eastwood (of Cook Yourself Thin) recipe. Going away on holiday is terribly inconvenient when you’re a food blogger. In the last month I’ve had both a weekend away to Provence and a week in Montenegro. In [Read on...]

Food Blogger Connect – London 28th November 2009

This is pathetically short and ill-composed post considering how excited I am about this.  So much has happened in the last couple of weeks whilst I had no broadband that I’m suffering a bit of a blog-kage and back(b)log.  I  must however share details of the very exciting Food Blogger Connect event which is taking [Read on...]

Appearing in Panto… Montenegro style

Anyone following me on Twitter will be sick to death of hearing this. I have had no broadband since I got back from our holiday in Montenegro earlier this week. I am therefore posting from my mobile which is a bit fiddly. Normal service should be resumed next week. In the meantime I share [Read on...]

Mixed Cupcakes for NCT and Yard Sales

You know that feeling you get after having taken some exams and you get home and don’t know what to do with yourself? I feel a bit like that this afternoon.  My house is suitably de-cluttered after this morning’s yard sale and I am not pressurising myself to make any more cake this weekend. [Read on...]

Mini Cupcakes with Crushed Blackberry Cream

I have been very quiet this week.  My dad has been staying in the spare room where computer is so I’ve not been able to get on here first thing in the morning when I do most of my blogging. Earlier in the week I made this batch of mini cupcakes following in the [Read on...]

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