Albert & Michel Roux croissants
You don’t cut corners when you bake. Especially with a new recipe. Especially when said recipe is something so daunting that it took you two years to face it. And yet, that’s exactly… Continue reading
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Paul Hollywood’s bloomer
If you read my previous post you might remember that I quite fancied watching Paul Hollywood’s Bread on BBC2. I wanted to buy his new book Bread but, being on a bit of budget, I waited… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading