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Mystified by which books to give for Christmas? Don’t want to resort to the latest Jamie offering? (Great as it may be) Never fear, this week I present to you the Maison Cupcake Bumper Books for Christmas Gifts Guide to be served in SIX digestible parts – each with their own giveaway. Most of [Read on...] 
Around this time each year I attempt to become Martha Stewart, vowing to make more of my Christmas gifts so I was delighted to be invited alongside Helen of Fuss Free Flavours to the Miele Experience Gallery in London for a day making Food for Gifts. [Read on...] 
My first time decorating a two tier wedding cake with flower paste roses under the watchful eye of sugarcraft queen Peggy Porschen – come and see how I got on! [Read on...] 
I’m supposed to be blogging two Gwyneth Paltrow recipes today but I thought you might be more interested to hear about the jolly exciting Waitrose Summer Party at the V&A on Wednesday night. [Read on...] 
Soba Sushi by Fuss Free Flavours Clearspring are a quiet little brand, dotted around the supermarket in separate aisles so that their entire range is rarely seen together. Probably if you saw more of their lines, you’d realise how familiar their products are. Poignantly, on the eve of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami and [Read on...] Somewhere in a parallel universe, a sensible career choice led to me being decked out in chef’s whites, working efficiently in a professional kitchen, knowing what I was doing and possibly showing other people how to do it. Instead, I was docked marks in my home economics GCSE exam for casually blowing bubbles through [Read on...] This post is part 5 in my series of 6 about Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Raymond Blanc’s Oxfordshire hotel and cookery school. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a list of other posts in this series covering the accommodation, dinner, breakfast and garden at Le Manoir. Today sees the second [Read on...] After a hiatus caused by each of my family getting flu in turn, this post is part 4 in my series about Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Raymond Blanc’s Oxfordshire hotel and cookery school. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a list of other posts in this series covering the accommodation, [Read on...] A quick mention today to let you know about my first ever radio appearance yesterday on Vanessa Kimbell‘s BBC Northampton Kitchen Garden show. [Read on...] Any notion I had about the inaugural Forever Nigella being a flash in the pan was swept away this month when SIXTY of you were well and truly Seduced by Chocolate for Forever Nigella #2. Without further to-do let’s linger over all our wonderful slinky chocolate smothered entries. You may like to take the [Read on...] Long haul travel is not my thing so the likelihood of me visiting Indian or Bali is remote, less still to go there to pray or meditate. The food however, the food, I am perfectly willing to travel in my mind’s eye via exciting things on my plate. [Read on...] Here goes, all 45 of you in no particular order. Lorraine at Not Quite Nigella looked at all the entries and she has chosen the … *drumroll please* … [Read on...] Next Mich showed us a variety of ways to pipe our buttercream, spirals, zig zags, pointy bits. Provided you use a star nozzle on your piping bag, all will look surprisingly grand even with a minimum of piping experience. [Read on...] 
The mighty kings of ketchup were good enough to supply me with a hamper for my series of 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways. It comprises a picnic basket, apron, oven gloves, chopping board, wooden spoon and a giant bottle of ketchup. [Read on...] One day classes at the school include bread making, Thai food and seasonal dinner party menus. Half day classes include hands-on chocolate class (which sounds messy!), canapes and cocktails, Michelin star pastry desserts, wine and cheese course and petit fours. [Read on...] 
It wasn’t any quicker than making it on the hob, in fact at nearly 50 minutes including warm up time it was definitely longer but the beauty was that I had a perfect risotto without any stirring required. Heaven. Had I had the larger cooking dish seen at the demonstration (above bottom left), I think you could easily make risotto for 10 people in this way. [Read on...] As I grapple with the technology overload that comes when you foolishly acquire a new computer, blogging platform and iPhone in quick succession, you may have noticed there’s not been a hell of a lot on the recipe post front lately. Not to say I’ve haven’t cooked anything, I mean a girl has to [Read on...] Hot on the heels of my sponsorship by Irish porridge oat brand Flahavan’s to attend Cybermummy, I received an exciting invitation with an Irish flavour. It was to attend a food photography and styling workshop hosted by Bord Bia, the Irish food board, led by professional food photographer and stylist Alastair Hendy and taking [Read on...] With thanks to Waitrose for inviting me to their Christmas launch last week. And the popcorn. Any disappointment I might have had last week about not being asked to attend the opening of Bompass and Parr’s The Complete History of Food evaporated when I received an invite to the Waitrose 2010 Christmas press launch. It [Read on...] 
It comes with much hilarity to me that I might be perceived as any kind of baking “expert” yet in my first year of food blogging I’ve had approaches related to three television shows to “come in and cook something.” When the team behind Miele kitchen appliances asked me to come into their London [Read on...] A holding post before you all think I’ve disappeared. This weekend, I went to the incredible Cybermummy conference in London, a massive get together for around 180 mummy bloggers. I will give a more detailed rundown on my thoughts about the day and how mummy bloggers compare to food bloggers in the next few [Read on...] As a slack Daring Baker of late, I’m surprised I’ve not been kicked out. I keep having other cakes due on the 27th when we post our challenges and have not been organised enough to get DB finished and written up first. The March and April challenges didn’t inspire me and I was away [Read on...] Sarka of Cooking Your Dream and Guilia of Jul’s Kitchen at the FBC Prop Swap Ilva at Lucullian Delights is hosting the successful Food Props on Sunday series. Over 8 weekends she has published tips on crockery, linens, backgrounds with guest posts from “Prop Queens” including Meeta at What’s for Lunch Honey? A round up, “Show [Read on...] Today’s post features as many of the folks at Food Blogger Connect that I have managed to get decent pictures of – namely that their faces are just about showing and they not in the middle of eating some of that yummy food you saw in my previous post. There are also some shots [Read on...] My iPhoto folders are bulging. My computer is groaning and making tired noises. My camera had so many images on it I swear it felt heavier. Not only did I have all my pictures from 3 days of Food Blogger Connect, there were a week’s worth from my holiday in France too. I must [Read on...] |
 
 
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