As a mummy with a reputation for making cakes, I can’t just turn up to these occasions with a bag of treat size Milky Ways. [Read on...]
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My son’s eating habits are baffling me at the moment. At home he’s a fussy little jack in the box who says “I don’t like this, I don’t like that” and leaps about at the table never sitting still. From nursery I get reports that he has been offered a veritable smorgassbord of: [Read on...] 
Has anyone noticed I’ve not published anything for two weeks? No? Didn’t think so. I’ve reached a point recently where sitting on the sofa watching Mad Men with my husband is more appealing than writing blog posts until 1am. [Read on...] 
Consider today a precursor to my long promised Morphy Richards’ bread maker review to be published tomorrow. I’ve missed many of my favourite blog events lately. To my joy, this month’s Fresh From the Oven hosted by Michelle at Utterly Scrummy Food for Families was for a favourite savoury bread and I already had [Read on...] 
When I said in the last post that I was planning a summer break, I meant from late July, not now! You still have me for a while yet! We have a little ritual in our house, after boring stuff like cereal hoops during the week, Saturdays are boiled eggs and Sundays are bacon [Read on...] 
This cake was initially published here in November 2009. I am republishing it to submit to this month’s We Should Cocoa currently hosted by Chele with the theme “swiss rolls and roulades.” [Read on...] 
Today’s dish is Nigella Lawson’s Golden Jubilee Chicken Salad from Forever Summer but shown on Nigella.com in a turkey version. [Read on...] 
Turkey mince can be a bit anaemic but the agave nectar caramelises to brown the burgers. They’re still not that pretty but taste very good indeed. [Read on...] 
Missing Danger Mouse was bad enough but being unable to discuss Grange Hill in the playground next morning was miserable; the nadir being missing Danny Kendall dying in Mr. Bronson’s car. [Read on...] 
Harissa is a north African paste made from chilli, tomato and paprika, you often find it in the world foods aisles of supermarkets. This makes a simple lunch that could be served warm or cold. [Read on...] 
This is an adaptation of Nigella’s Forever Summer “Summer Crumble”. I’ve simply lifted her apricot crumble out of the dessert dish and into a pastry case. [Read on...] 
I’ve just drowned in Wikipedia, as I often do. Writing this blog post has reminded me of two things, my beloved Italian friend Anastasia answering the phone with an efficient “Pronto!” (meaning “ready!”) and that the favoured supermarket of my childhood was the now sadly defunct Presto (meaning “fast”). Wikipedia has a whole list [Read on...] Even though pancake day is relatively late this year, it still feels like it’s come round really quickly. Is it March already? We still have my sister in law’s family’s Christmas presents in the living room, I swore this year they would not hang around until Easter again but it seems history is repeating. [Read on...] 
A quick bite of bread today; with yesterday’s Daring Bakers entry and my announcement of the Monthly Mingle tomorrow, not to mention various posts that are stacking up, things have been a bit rushed this weekend. [Read on...] The February 2011 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Mallory from A Sofa in the Kitchen. She chose to challenge everyone to make Panna Cotta from a Giada De Laurentiis recipe and Nestle Florentine Cookies. I had a couple of problems with this challenge. I made the biscuit batter nice and early but it [Read on...] 
Today I ground up some last few large chunks of praline to create a fine pink dust and stencilled it onto these macarons. An unexpected consequence of doing so was… [Read on...] 
You smash pink pralines up and scatter them over things before baking and afterwards you get these wonderful pomegranate coloured fragments of sugar on top. [Read on...] 
This Krushchev Dough, apparently the favourite dough recipe of former Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev, is a forgiving one that breaks many of the usual rules of bread making. [Read on...] 
French toast seems to be a generic term for eggy bread… you’d expect eggy cake to be a bit rich but I’m pleased to report that this was not sicky in the least and with a genereous coating of egg, made for a delightful winter breakfast. [Read on...] 
This picture has a touch of the Fanny Craddock’s about it – by which I mean it looks like kitsch 1970s food photography (of which I am a huge fan). I can explain. I have been taking photos in virtual darkness to the point that I cannot see how dishevelled the cake in front [Read on...] 
If you squash 4-5 cherries into the well of the kugelhopf and leave it for a couple of hours, some of the juice comes out of them into the cake. [Read on...] 
Gibanica (ghee-ban-itz-er) is filo pastry baked with yogurt, egg and oil. It frequently includes salty white cheese similar to feta. I have enjoyed the cheese version many times, it’s equally tasty straight from the oven for dinner or cold for breakfast. With some yogurt and left over filo triangles from a Turkish supermarket I made these mini gibanicas, my version of a Balkan pastry dish. [Read on...] 
Now Nigella Lawson’s Rapid Ragu may sound a darn sight more stylish with it’s panetta and canned puy lentils but it’s not a million miles from those meaty (and slightly freaky) pasta sauces I used to cook up on the kind of cooker that now belongs in the Geffrye Museum. [Read on...] |
 
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