Food adventures, food memories and food thoughts.
It’s rapidly becoming apparent that we’re heading towards a second summer where travel outside of the UK isn’t going to be a realistic option. For now, at least the coronavirus news is on the positive side. The vaccine rollout continues apace, the infections numbers are falling rapidly and as I type the third lockdown is …
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I’ve been simmering clementines. Not an activity I’ve ever considered before, but after a very successful outcome, one I’ll be returning to. Before I go any further I should point out it was all in the name of baking. In particular the baking of a soft, sticky cake which has gone straight onto the ‘can …
My cookbook library is extensive and will soon need a larger bookcase to house it. Lockdown may have stopped random buys resulting from bookshop browsing, but it’s still grown over the last 12 months. I keep feeling now should be the time to pull out some of those which don’t see the light of day …
I think we may have over-ordered on the lemons. Like most people, we’re trying to limit our supermarket trips at the moment. Trying to follow the lockdown rules and only going out when necessary. Getting a home delivery is proving nigh on impossible, but we are having some success with click and collect. Yesterday was …
Is there a food that makes you happy, even just thinking about it? This was the question my friend Alison asked her followers on Twitter the other night. My initial thought was ‘I’ve got so many’. So many that prompt a smile and a stirring of the taste buds. I could choose: A plate of …
Bake Off is done for another year. First, there was the expectation that like so many of our annual highlights, it just wouldn’t happen this year. Then a few brief weeks of anticipation once we’d heard it was going ahead. Followed by ten weeks of baking challenges that feel as if they’ve gone by in …
We’re down to the last five contestants in the Bake Off, this was quarter-finals week and the challenges were all desserts. For me, dessert is a catch-all title which can include gateaus or even pies, as long as they’re of the sweet variety. For Bake Off, it gets a bit more specific, as the ones …
It’s the little things that keep you going at a time like this. My last post was al about the sort of baking which takes a few hours to complete and feels like quite a project. This time around it’s the quick and easy option, the sort of baking where you barely have time to …
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This season’s Bake Off has reached the point where the weekly themes start to go a bit off-piste. In previous years we’ve been served vegan and Danish baking, this time around we’ve had Japanese followed by the Eighties. When I saw this theme listed I was desperately hoping the show might include a Black Forest …
I’m the person who often picks the dish he doesn’t recognise on the menu. The person who then sits wondering what’s going to be delivered to the table. Hoping for a new food experience, eager to be the envy of my dining companions, running the risk of leaving them thinking ‘will he never learn’. It …
David in the kitchen.