New gadgets
A few weeks ago I caught up with Paul Hollywood’s Bread on BBC2. I always jokingly say that I’m in a relationship with Amazon, given the amount of stuff I buy from them… Read More
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Salted Caramel cupcakes
After my breadmaker’s sudden and untimely death, I finally had an excuse to buy a kitchen mixer. It helped a lot that the drama struck about a month before my birthday.. Another essential… Read More
Homemade pork dumplings
In these weeks of diet [where "diet" = me being banned from baking] our household has officially turned into a Chinese kitchen. I can’t remember the last time I put a meal together… Read More
No butter/No oil cookies
Yesterday saw me running my second ever 10k. My first having been 12 months ago, for which I virtually didn’t train due to a knee injury, this was the first year I actually… Read More
Notes from a culinary [and alcoholic] weekend
This weekend started in the best of ways: with a visit to Taste of London, thanks to a colleague who kindly gave me her free tickets, and a lot of prosecco. I had… Read More
Chocolate And Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies
Last weekend, the boyfriend was fantasising about eating an Oreo biscuit as big as his face. I toyed with the idea for a few days, learned that there’s such a thing as an… Read More
Gok Wan madness
This weekend I was meant to post about amaretto biscuits, a sort of meringue with ground almonds. Truth is I made them and they came out too ugly to be photographed. Not even… Read More
A rainy Jubilee weekend and Jubilee inspired fresh fruit tarts
You have to be grateful to the Queen for giving us an extra day off in her 60th year of reign. I would have been even more excited if the weather were as… Read More
Cherry tomato and olive focaccia
Born and bred in Italy, and the best focaccia recipe I’ve ever tried comes from the Hairy Bikers.
