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 …
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Great British Bake Off Week Five
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 …
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 …
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 …
David in the kitchen. 