Clearing out a cupboard yesterday I found a long-since forgotten school magazine, dating back to when I spent part of my childhood in Malta. My Dad was a printer by trade and he’d gone out to Malta to help set up a print company. We were there for about four years and he still reminisces …
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Beetroot, caraway & goat’s cheese bread.
First of all an admission. Under any other circumstances than this recipe, I don’t like beetroot and I certainly wouldn’t expect to find it cropping up here again in a hurry. For a long time now we’ve subscribed to a regular organic veg box service. Great at the best of times and an absolute godsend …
Carrot & Mango Cake
It would’ve been my Mother’s birthday today and I’ve no doubt at all if she was still here there would have been cake. The sweet things were always her favourites, I’m sure that’s where my indulgent streak comes from. She was one of those people who always looked at desserts first on a menu, making …
Unexpected flavours
One of the things I most enjoy when baking is dropping in unexpected flavours. Flavours that on paper probably shouldn’t be there. But when you eat them you’re glad they are. It’s great to watch the look of surprise on someone’s face when what you’ve served them turns out to be more than they expected. …
Back to baking
After a few weeks of chaos, things are slowly getting back to normal here. The kitchen refit is done, all that’s left now is to sort out some decorating for the few areas of the wall not taken up with cupboards and units. It was always destined to be a lengthy project and discovering halfway …
Bake Off pastry week
Missing the chance to join in with Bake Off German week due to our ongoing kitchen renovation, was a disappointment. But if I have to miss out on Pastry week as well, it could just turn out to be a blessing. It’s not that I don’t like pastry, my regular consumption of pies proves I …
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
When Joni sang ‘you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’ she probably wasn’t thinking about baking. The problem I have is that with our kitchen refurb underway, baking is gone, at least for the time being, and now it is all I’m thinking about. From Bake Off German week, with some fascinating challenges, …
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A Baker Without A Kitchen
After much thought and prevarication, we’ve finally decided to bring our kitchen into the modern world. We’re expanding the workspace, improving the layout, and soon I’ll be baking away to my heart’s content, posting even more photo’s than normal on social media. But in the meantime, we’re living in chaos. The cupboards and drawers were …
Bake Off dessert week
With the possible exception of bread week, there’s a case to be made it’s always dessert week on Bake Off. However this time it officially was. The week you can guarantee more than any other that every challenge is going to be sweet, sticky and indulgent. My mum would have loved it. Whenever she ate …
Bake Off bread week
Bake Off bread week feels as if it marks the point in the series when the basics have been covered. We started with cake, followed with biscuits and now bread means that the things we’re all most likely to bake at home have been ticked off. Desserts and pies are the only bakes you can …
David in the kitchen. 