Bake Off week five and we’re half way through the series. This time it was into unchartered territory with a theme of 1920’s baking. When they do this sort of thing I’m never quite sure if they come up with the theme first and then try matching recipes to it or if it’s the other …
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Baking a bundt cake
It’s a wet, grey Tuesday afternoon and somehow all of those productive plans that I had for today have come to nothing. There’s a garage door needs painting, a lawn that needs mowing and a garden that could really do with an end of summer tidy up. But I’m staying where I am at this …
A Second Bake for GBBO Bread Week
Although this blog is only couple of months old I’ve already written on a few occasions about how much I enjoy making bread. Based on that you won’t be surprised to hear that Bake Off bread week was too much of a temptation to only bake the once. Bread always feels like particularly guilt free …
Great British Bake Off Week Three
It’s already bake off week three and this time it’s bread. When I first started to bake the thought of making bread was daunting and not something that I tried for quite some time. Eventually I plucked up the courage to have a go and now it’s probably second only to cake in the things …
Great British Bake Off Week Two
Bake off week two and it’s time for biscuits. Biscuits are never my favourite bake, not to say that I don’t enjoy them, just that they are something that I don’t bake very often. This weeks challenges were chocolate biscuits bars for the signature bake, fig rolls for the technical and a 3D biscuit structure …
Great British Bake Off Week One
It’s reached that time of year again. That time when despite the first signs of summer coming to an end, things don’t actually feel so bad after all. I’m probably being fanciful but The Great British Bake Off has that affect on me. Yes I know it’s all a bit of a cliche but there …
A few of my favourite things
One of the many and various food magazines that find their way into this house recently had an article where a selection of chefs and foodie people listed their favourite ingredient. That one thing they use regularly to turn a simple dish into something special. Some of them were quite straight forward, for example Jack …
For the love of cookbooks
Someone asked me last week why I prefer cookbooks to looking online for recipes. The question got me thinking as it’s not something that I’ve really thought about before. The quick and obvious answer is that nothing beats the look and feel of a book. The opening of a new cover, the turning of the …
Homemade versus shop bought
Just because I’m a relatively recent convert to the joys of baking it doesn’t mean that I haven’t always enjoyed cake and baked things in general. Back then they were either shop bought or baked by someone else in the house. My Mum loved to bake and I have many childhood memories of being in …
Sunday afternoon baking
Sunday afternoon in the kitchen just might be my favourite time of the week. A time when I can completely immerse myself in baking. That’s not to say that I don’t bake at other times of the week, just that Sunday is the time when I really indulge. I’m in my own little world and …
David in the kitchen. 