I’ve been simmering clementines. Not an activity I’ve ever considered before, but after a very successful outcome, one I’ll be returning to. Before I go any further I should point out it was all in the name of baking. In particular the baking of a soft, sticky cake which has gone straight onto the ‘can …
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If All Else Fails,There’s Cake
It’s my sisters birthday today. I won’t share her age, a gentleman never tells, but let’s just say it’s a landmark one. The sort which in a more normal time would have been marked with hugs, kisses and a big family get together. Instead, she’ll be having a quiet day at home and other than …
Apple, lemon and chocolate cake
The cake in the picture with this post may not be the best-looking thing I’ve put on here, but it just might be one of the tastiest. It’s the sort of cake I know would hardly register with me if I saw it on a bakery counter. My gaze soon moving to the more cream-laden, …
Comfort food from my favourite cookbook.
My cookbook library is extensive and will soon need a larger bookcase to house it. Lockdown may have stopped random buys resulting from bookshop browsing, but it’s still grown over the last 12 months. I keep feeling now should be the time to pull out some of those which don’t see the light of day …
We may have over ordered on the lemons
I think we may have over-ordered on the lemons. Like most people, we’re trying to limit our supermarket trips at the moment. Trying to follow the lockdown rules and only going out when necessary. Getting a home delivery is proving nigh on impossible, but we are having some success with click and collect. Yesterday was …
Apple, cardamom & buckwheat muffins
One of my regular Google searches is to check just how much notice I need to take of the ‘best before’ or BBE dates on food items in my pantry. Now we’re back into a full-blown lockdown here in the UK I’m once again going through the shelves to see what we’ve got and more …
Getting back into the kitchen
If this year has taught me anything it has to be the importance of concentrating on the small things. At a time when so much feels to be out of our control, we’ve all learnt the hard way that making grand plans or trying to look too far ahead is a fool’s errand and bound …
When life gets in the way of baking.
Things have suddenly got a bit hectic in this house over the last few days. I’ve mentioned before how my partner’s 89-year-old mother has been living with us since she suffered a stroke almost exactly twelve months ago. We had settled into a regular routine, but then on Friday she fell over in her bedroom, …
The joy of group baking
Bake Off is done for another year. First, there was the expectation that like so many of our annual highlights, it just wouldn’t happen this year. Then a few brief weeks of anticipation once we’d heard it was going ahead. Followed by ten weeks of baking challenges that feel as if they’ve gone by in …
Great British Bake Off 2020 week 9
It doesn’t feel long since I was anticipating the unexpected pleasure of a new Bake Off series, yet here we are at the semi-final stage already. Somehow this sums up 2020 for me. Long spells where time drags and nothing much happens, followed by fleeting pleasures that are gone far too quickly. Only a week …
David in the kitchen. 