Some days my baking is a project, the result of great planning and cookbook scanning. Other days it’s spur of the moment, what’s in the cupboards, what needs using. Yesterday was one of those. A ‘let’s see what we’ve got ‘day. Like so many people during lockdown, and the strange semi lockdown we’ve drifted into, …
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Great British Bake Off 2020 week 2
Bake Off week two and it’s biscuits..or is it. For the second year running this round had bakers taking to social media and questioning whether the bake picked as the technical challenge actually qualified as a biscuit. Last year it was fig rolls lighting up Twitter, this year it was macaroons. My take is that …
Baking with fruit from the garden.
I’m beginning to discover the joys of cooking with ingredients which I’ve been involved with growing. Gardening has never been one of my strong points, mowing the lawn is about as far as it normally gets. Beyond that, I tend to think of the garden as somewhere to sit in the sun with a good …
A beetroot revelation
There aren’t many things I won’t eat, or at least won’t make an effort with, and now the list is even shorter after the revelation that was beetroot hummus. Up until last weekend, beetroot was a no go area for me. It’s an aversion which stretches back to childhood and the memories of horribly acidic …
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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Pavlova with Pimm’s roasted strawberries.
Every weekend needs a treat and at the moment probably more so than ever. We may be slowly coming out of lockdown isolation, slowly starting to socialise again, but each day can still feel the same with little to highlight one from another. An indulgent treat at least sets the weekend apart. It’s an excuse …
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I made a Victoria sponge.
I baked a Victoria sponge this weekend. That light and airy cake which somehow seems to symbolise teatime in ways nothing else does. There are so many childhood memories of there always being one of these on the table if we went to spend time with my grandparents. Full of cream and fruit, dusted with …
It feels like summer
It feels very much as if summer has come early. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and I’ve got a blind pulled to keep the glare off the screen as I type. It’s left me struggling to make up my mind if the advent of such good weather is a help or a …
Sharing bread with my father.
As part of the creative writing course I’m currently doing we were asked yesterday to come up with two lists relating to the current situation. One showing the positives we think are coming out of it and the other listing the negatives. After much thought and head scratching I was half way down the page …
Lemon semolina cake
One of the things I’m enjoying about writing this blog is how much I’m finding out as I do it. Not only am I learning from the research I do prior to writing but also from the feedback and questions people ask me after I’ve posted. Yesterdays example of this was when I learned that …
David in the kitchen. 