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 …
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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 …
Bake Off is coming back
So apparently there is going to be a Great British Bake Off this year after all. The world may feel as if it’s rapidly going to hell in a hand basket, but we will be getting our much needed weekly fix of baking powder and icing sugar. No doubt there will be numerous bonkers baking …
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 …
I went back into a coffeeshop.
I went back into a coffeeshop last week for the first time in about four months. That’s back in as to actually order a coffee, sit down, sip, savour and finally leave feeling that perhaps the world isn’t quite such a bad place after all. Strictly speaking, it wasn’t my first time back across a …
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 …
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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Giorgina finally got to feed her son.
After three months my partner finally got to see her son this weekend. He lives in London and during lockdown all communications have been via phone calls or the occasional zoom session his mother managed to persuade him to join. For a long time those were the only options they had but now that lockdown …
David in the kitchen. 