Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want ~ Gael Greene
And no, these aren’t Joseph’s but are the very, very clever product of my friend Sam’s warp-speed creativity – she is to home industries what Leonardo was to the renaissance; completely unstoppable. Anyway, she happened to see a picture of a rainbow cake during a work presentation and promptly went home and concocted a recipe [...]
Read More...“[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of [...]
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I think I’m coming down with flu, so am not really feeling up to writing a scintillating post tonight – frankly, I don’t think I’ve ever felt less scintillating in my life! So, instead, herewith a simple recipe for a country-style loaf that is about the sort of nourishing, comforting thing I feel the need [...]
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Some months ago I found a fabulous recipe for a rooibos cheesecake in a House & Leisure magazine and, as I’m want to do, I made it over and over again and then (for some peculiar reason that I can’t remember) I forgot all about it. Until this weekend, when I was once more overcome [...]
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I don’t know about you, but I find it hugely frustrating when recipe books give measurements in the “wrong” units. What I mean by that is that, for me, dry ingredients are for weighing, liquids for measuring. I don’t want to work out 180 grams of water any more than I do a cup of [...]
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Top 10 Baking Store Cupboard Essentials
I love lists. I’m absolutely useless at following them, but I do love creating them. It makes me feel like the organised little Santa-elf I always aspire (and fail catastrophically) to be…
With that in mind, I thought I’d start a new section called store-cupboard “essentials” that will list (I get [...]
Yesterday Sam read the sorry saga of my recent, catastrophic muffin failures (see the muffin misadventures) and mercifully decided to take pity on me. Being the kind person that she is, she left a comment saying that she had a brilliant recipe for Banana and Pecan Nut muffins and would I be interested. That’s a bit [...]
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Chocolate Cloud Cake from Nigella Bites
To compensate for the horror of the muffin debacle, I’ve decided to post a foolproof (yup, even I can make this) recipe for a cake so delicious it should require an age restriction, or 3 hail marys, or a savage self flagellation session – some sort of atonement. It is, quite [...]
Okay, have had the second catastrophic muffin failure in as many weeks, and I’m getting bleak – this is now becoming serious… It has become a Categorical Imperative that I figure out how to make a decent muffin. I’ve always prided myself on being a semi-decent baker, but if the banana flavoured landmines of today [...]
Read More...Have had an exhausting bloody day as my beautiful daughter has decided, at the world weary age of 4 months, that sleep is passe and only for sissies. I am now, officially, shattered. And hungry – it has not been a good cooking day… The carrot muffins that I made (during the 20 minutes I [...]
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