…the decade when I became a wife, a home owner and a mother. I hadn’t planned on posting until next week but have been busy reading everyone else’s round ups. Although I started this blog in July, it wasn’t until around September that it started to take shape and look like a proper food [Read on...]
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Provence is a place very dear to my heart, I first visited in 1997 and have been back almost every year since. I have been to Arles for Easter, where I saw Provencal ladies dressed in these beautiful costumes but family commitments have thus far prevented me visiting at Christmas. Were I to do [Read on...] 
My grandmother always made dozens of mince pies at Christmas. She used to mix her pastry with orange juice instead of water. Today I bring you the second of three mincemeat recipes featured this month but the only one which could be called a mince pie. [Read on...] “Gravy in cupcakes?” my husband cried. Well. Crazier things have happened… Saturday was, shall we say, a tad busy. It was “Caterpillar Day”, when I did my first ever baked-for-a-stranger cake. I keep taunting you but there will be a full post on the Very Hungry Caterpillar after Christmas. Lots of you have been [Read on...] 
Amongst the dregs of my recent yard sale you will find a reindeer that poops jelly beans, a broken kettle and a heap of Trinny and Susannah books. These are still bound for the charity store or dump but I am seeing other items with new eyes. These terracotta dishes, once sold filled with [Read on...] 
Getting worse at something the more times you do it is not a habit of mine. Yet it seems to be the case with macarons. I have been baking macarons for this month’s Mac Tweets challenge hosted by my chums from Food Blogger Connect, Jamie at Life’s a Feast and Deeba from Passionate about [Read on...] They say that when you attend any courses or training for work purposes that you only absorb about 10% of what you hear. If this is true, at Food Blogger Connect last week, one of the messages I took home from Meeta of What’s For Lunch Honey? was the importance of paying attention to [Read on...] Denial about the proximity of Christmas will need to end soon. The cards are unwritten, the tree standing bare in the living room waiting for my son to attack it and I haven’t found any presents yet. With one exception. I have a gift ready for one lucky Maison Cupcake reader, this lovely little [Read on...] Unless you count the time I pretended to be busy with a fax machine behind Jeremy Kyle in his Central News reporting days, I’ve never been on TV. Coming soon however, on a download device near you, will be dozens of food bloggers, including myself, confessing their darkest culinary horrors on film. We’re talking [Read on...] |
 
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