Seed & Bean chocolate bars

A stash of my favourite chocolate bars due to be shipped to my sis-in-law in Australia.. If you want to buy this really nice organic, fair trade chocolate you can order it from… Read More →

Chocolate Guinness cake

Happy belated St. Paddy’s everyone! As you may know from my previous post, a busy Saturday made of flat hunting and all things collateral conflicted with my plan of celebrating it properly. Therefore… Read More →

Emergency cookies: peanuts, raisins and ground almonds

Despite it being St. Paddy’s day, I had to postpone any celebratory baking to tomorrow due to flat hunting. Still, by mid afternoon the boyfriend was missing his weekly dose of calories so… Read More →

Goodbye, guilt trips!

I’ve been baking a lot with raisins this weekend. The reason is pretty simple: I had a huge, still untouched bag of delicious raisins that will go off next month. Also, I’ve been… Read More →

Tiramisu macaroons

Last week, one of my colleagues generously ripped a page off Stylist magazine containing a recipe for tiramisu macaroons*, so I decided to try them as soon as I had a chance. Here’s the… Read More →

The contradictions of modern life

The model housewife inside me has bought a whole free range chicken to get better value for money. Too bad the clueless City girl had no idea about how to cut it. Thank… Read More →

My first ever food shot!

I was looking for something in my Istock account today when I stumbled into this.. I had completely forgot about this early attempt! Two years and a half ago!

Ginette Mathiot’s shortcrust pastry and rhubarb tart

Update: This is now “Tart of the day” on Tarts for Troops! Rhubarb is one those ‘things’ I’ve never quite known how to approach. It looks like a celery. But it’s red. But… Read More →

Henry Hargreaves, Sweetapolita and the origins of my baking frenzy

I was meant to go to a cafe in Hamspstead Heath for breakfast this morning, and write a post about it. But the Central Line is closed due to never-ending engineering works and we’re… Read More →

Squash, goats cheese and rosemary pancakes

An unusual recipe for a traditional day; you can find it here.