Bake Off week two and it’s biscuits..or is it. For the second year running this round had bakers taking to social media and questioning whether the bake picked as the technical challenge actually qualified as a biscuit. Last year it was fig rolls lighting up Twitter, this year it was macaroons. My take is that …
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Baking buzz
With the nights drawing in and the coronavirus news getting bleaker by the day there has never felt like a better time for the return of Bake Off. For the next ten weeks on a Tuesday evening, we can pull the curtains, pour a cup of tea, cut a slice of cake and collectively all …
Baking with fruit from the garden.
I’m beginning to discover the joys of cooking with ingredients which I’ve been involved with growing. Gardening has never been one of my strong points, mowing the lawn is about as far as it normally gets. Beyond that, I tend to think of the garden as somewhere to sit in the sun with a good …
Emergency baking
‘I did tell you I was going to be out for most of the day, didn’t I?’ ‘No, I don’t think so’ ‘In which case I’m guessing I forgot to tell you I’ve promised Claire one of your cakes’ ‘You definitely didn’t tell me that’ ‘Is it too late if I’m telling you now?’ So …
A beetroot revelation
There aren’t many things I won’t eat, or at least won’t make an effort with, and now the list is even shorter after the revelation that was beetroot hummus. Up until last weekend, beetroot was a no go area for me. It’s an aversion which stretches back to childhood and the memories of horribly acidic …
Baking a cake for other people
My partner is taking her mother out tomorrow morning to visit some friends and I’ve been asked to bake a cake for them. A cake that’s going to be cut into and eaten when I’m not there. I don’t think this has ever happened before and it’s making me distinctly nervous. As they want to …
Discovering flourless cake.
I took a step into the unknown yesterday with my first attempt at a flourless cake. I’ve already mentioned it was my partners birthday a couple of days ago and she rounded off a weekend of celebrations when she had friends over for lunch in our garden. The meal was arranged at very short notice, …
My Saturday baking
Some days are for full-blown baking projects, others are more a case of checking what you’ve got in the kitchen, then deciding what to bake. Today is straddling both camps. We have another birthday coming up in the house and I’m back on cake making duty. This one defiantly falls into the project camp. A …
Going back to Thurcroft
If these last strange three months have taught me anything it’s just how important the senses are, even when you’re not necessarily using them. How just the thought of a smell, a taste or the feel of something can bring back memories, taking you to a time or place you’d thought long forgotten. Much of …
I might just have found my new favourite cake
‘I might just have found my new favourite cake’ is a blog post title I’ve been toying with for a while. Until now I’ve resisted it on the grounds that I’m always finding new favourites. It might be something I’ve baked myself, it could be something delicious winking at me suggestively on a coffeeshop counter, …
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David in the kitchen. 