There was a time when I would quite happily refer to myself as a weekend baker. Before these last twelve months, I would bake at a weekend and once the fruits of my labours were eaten that was it. No more until the weekend rolled around again. One of the few upsides of the last …
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Alfresco tables
We seem to be on a mad roller coaster of weather at the moment. No two days the same, as it switches from balmy early summer-like sunshine to snow showers with a distinctly January feel to them. Today is a prime example, I have curtains slightly pulled to keep the sun off the screen as …
If All Else Fails,There’s Cake
It’s my sisters birthday today. I won’t share her age, a gentleman never tells, but let’s just say it’s a landmark one. The sort which in a more normal time would have been marked with hugs, kisses and a big family get together. Instead, she’ll be having a quiet day at home and other than …
Apple, lemon and chocolate cake
The cake in the picture with this post may not be the best-looking thing I’ve put on here, but it just might be one of the tastiest. It’s the sort of cake I know would hardly register with me if I saw it on a bakery counter. My gaze soon moving to the more cream-laden, …
Apple, cardamom & buckwheat muffins
One of my regular Google searches is to check just how much notice I need to take of the ‘best before’ or BBE dates on food items in my pantry. Now we’re back into a full-blown lockdown here in the UK I’m once again going through the shelves to see what we’ve got and more …
Getting back into the kitchen
If this year has taught me anything it has to be the importance of concentrating on the small things. At a time when so much feels to be out of our control, we’ve all learnt the hard way that making grand plans or trying to look too far ahead is a fool’s errand and bound …
It’s the little things that keep you going.
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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Back through the looking glass
So here we go again, UK lockdown 2, the sequel no one wanted to see. It’s been pretty obvious for a few weeks it was coming, but it still doesn’t make the thought of shutting the doors and hibernating for the next four weeks anymore appealing. If that wasn’t enough, there’s a certain election to …
Too much time, too little to do.
I forgot it was my fathers birthday at the beginning of this week, or perhaps I should say I momentarily overlooked it. Ever since lockdown started back in March I’ve been calling him regularly to see how he is and when I did on Monday it went to answerphone so I left a message. I …
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. 