Food adventures, food memories and food thoughts.
There may have been a few things going on recently that have restricted the amount of time that I can devote to this blog, but what they haven’t done is restrict the amount of time that I get to spend in the kitchen. I’ve mentioned before that my partner and I are currently nursing her …
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For Baking Advent Calendar day 21 we’re having one of the classics. A Victoria Sponge with cream and strawberries. Unfortunately I didn’t get too many opportunities to bake for my mother but this was always one of her favourites, the picture is of one that I baked for her 80th birthday. Mum didn’t want much …
A few days ago I noticed on Twitter that #nationalcookieday was trending, so I posted a picture of some chocolate and pistachios cookies that I’d baked. As they got lots of positive feedback I thought that I’d share them here for Baking Advent Calendar day 20. I often bake these as they keep for up …
Some days are made for exotic bakes and some are made for comfort baking. Todays baking plan was bread and and I decided that it felt like a comfort day, a day for some good old fashioned white crusty bread. Normally when I bake bread it’s with wholemeal or spelt flours and there’s often some …
We’re well into the Christmas baking now so it’s time to start thinking about what you can make ahead of time. One of the bakes that I always do about a week beforehand is sausage rolls and that’s what I’m sharing today for Baking Advent Calendar day 17. These can be baked and frozen now, …
I was at my fathers house at the weekend and I noticed that he had a picture on the wall from a trip that we made to New York a few years back to celebrate my 40th birthday. Two other friends came with us and the photo dad has was taken by one of them. …
My partner was supposed to be going out to meet a friend for a pre Christmas drink and bite to eat this evening, but then circumstances changed and now said friend is coming here and they’re eating in. This was all well and good until a I got a panicked call to say “there’s no …
I’m very well aware that a baking blog is not really the place to discuss politics, so I’ll restrict myself to saying that yesterdays UK election left me somewhat depressed and as a result I think that a sweet treat is called for. That’s why we’re having raspberry cream eclairs for Baking Advent Calendar day …
For Baking Advent Calendar Day 11 I’ve been into what is relatively unchartered territory for me. My partner recently acquired The New Vegan by Aine Carlin and has been trying to persuade me to cook something from it. To be honest I didn’t have a great deal of enthusiasm , but when she pointed out …
To be honest with you when I started this exercise I thought I was being a bit ambitious and that there might be some gaps that I’d have to try and count for, but so far so good and we’ve made it to Baking Advent Calendar day 10 without a break.. Today’s bake is orange …
David in the kitchen.