Bake Off week six and I’m still on a bit of a sugar high. This was dessert week and it inevitably involved a great deal of meringue. My Mum would have loved this week. I always remember that if we went out for a meal she would choose her dessert first and then pick the …
Category Archives: cookbooks
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 …
David in the kitchen. 