Food adventures, food memories and food thoughts.
I was going to start this post with a reference to how long we’ve been in lockdown, but as I keep losing track of time and never seem to know what day of the week it is I’d probably get it wrong if I tried. So I’ll just make do with saying that I hope …
Continue reading “Cardamom tea cakes with cinnamon sugar topping.”
I’ve mentioned in a couple of my recent posts that flexible recipes are what we need at the moment. Recipes which can be tweaked and amended to take into account what you have, or more importantly don’t have, in your store cupboard. With the one I’m sharing today I think I’ve found a near perfect …
I don’t think I’ve ever thought about food quite as much as I’m doing at the moment. I’m sure we’re all a bit like that, what with the combination of more time on our hands and limited opportunities for stocking up, but as someone who’s been known to list food as a hobby before now …
Continue reading “Soft spiced apple cake..Monday comfort baking”
Coronavirus isolating might be resulting in a lack of ingredients in my store cupboard but it certainly isn’t limiting the frequency at which I bake. If anything I’m finding myself in the kitchen more often than normal. This is partly down to the fact home baking helps to eke out our supples and partly to …
Continue reading “Escaping to the kitchen to make bread and scones”
Yesterday morning I attended the final session of my creative writing course. Last week didn’t happen due to the coronavirus shutdown but for this one our tutor suggested we have a go at doing things online. I was a little wary going in but have to say that through a mix of email and a …
I picked the title of this short post because I don’t think there’s ever been a more important time to get in the kitchen and revel in the comfort of baking. To shut the world out for an hour or two, to have the enjoyment of being creative and at the end of it the …
Up until two weeks ago my recipe of choice at this time of year had always been the blood orange and pistachio cakes that I shared in my Baking Advent Calendar day 10 post. Then I discovered Tamal Ray’s blood orange syrup cake with candied peel and suddenly there’s a new favourite in this house. …
Continue reading “Blood orange syrup cake with candied peel.”
It’s all about the bread this week and that’s as it should be as #RealBreadWeek is all over my Twitter timeline. It’s as if the algorithms have been in my kitchen and smelled the baking. There’s already been a couple of loaves this week and there will probably be another before next weekend. I wouldn’t …
Last week I discovered and bought a cookbook that I just know is going to be slightly dogeared and stained before too long. Those badges of honour that all good cookbooks should wear. The book in question is Little Library Year by Kate Young. It’s a combination of glorious seasonal recipes that are interspersed with …
Apologies that I’ve not been on here for a little while but sometimes life gets in the way of the things that you enjoy doing most. Just because I haven’t been able to make the time to post doesn’t mean that I haven’t been in the kitchen though. We’re still nursing my partners elderly mother …
David in the kitchen.