‘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 …
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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 …
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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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 …
A few chinks of light
If I hear one more person say ‘this is the new normal’ I swear I’m going to scream, or at least walk off with a petulant flounce. Given the way things change on a daily basis and how the UK is coming out of lockdown in such a seemingly ad-hoc and random manner I don’t …
A stay at home food traveller.
When lockdown started I rather naively hoped that one of the benefits was going to be much more time to write and as a result lots more things to post on here. Well how wrong was I. Obviously the time has been there, how couldn’t it be when you’re not leaving home, but somehow the …
Chilli cornbread pie
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 …
Soft spiced apple cake..Monday comfort baking
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 …
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The comfort of baking
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 …
David in the kitchen. 