Food adventures, food memories and food thoughts.
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. …
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I made my first pizza recently. I’m not quite sure why I hadn’t beforehand but when pizza popped up as the #TwitterBakeAlong challenge a couple of weeks ago I decided it was time to have a go. Now I’m left wondering why it took me so long to get round to it and how quickly …
The cold meats and cheeses that I had for my first breakfast in Germany were a whole new experience to me. I’ve written quite a lot in previous posts about childhood memories of food. How living in Malta for a few years broadened my tastes at an early age, what an adventurous cook my mother …
There’s an article in todays Guardian where a number of chefs and foodies talk about their least favourite ingredient to cook with. This got me to thinking about what mine would be, then to the very quick conclusion that I may be about to write the shortest blog post ever. Clearly many of these people …
One of the many and various food magazines that find their way into this house recently had an article where a selection of chefs and foodie people listed their favourite ingredient. That one thing they use regularly to turn a simple dish into something special. Some of them were quite straight forward, for example Jack …
David in the kitchen.