April 2009

April 27, 2009 · 38 comments

Get Creative

in Cakes & Cookies,Challenges,Desserts,Vegetarian

The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. April Challenge? Well it can mean only one thing, Daring Bakers time again! What a lovely challenge we had: Cheesecake! The difference here was that we had free reign, given a basic recipe for a [...]

{ 38 comments }

April 26, 2009 · 6 comments

Bread, Glorious Bread

in Bread,My Recipes,Vegetarian

What better than a loaf of freshly baked bread to go with the delightful dish of home made butter. I was going to make a simple no knead loaf with white spelt flour, one I have made many times before with great success but when I got to the cupboard I found it was lacking in flour! [...]

{ 6 comments }

April 23, 2009 · 31 comments

The Home Creamery

in Produce,Vegetarian

For many centuries butter making was either a domestic activity or was bought directly from the farm, now of course it is mass produced on a huge scale and can be bought from many sources and in many different forms.  So why attempt making your own? Why for the taste of course, it is a [...]

{ 31 comments }

April 22, 2009 · 13 comments

Hummingbirds

in Cakes & Cookies

After much anticipation and a long time waiting I eventually lay my hands on a copy of The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook by Tarek Malouf.  It’s a stunner of a book, with recipes taken from the bakery of the same name, but much smaller than I anticipated having only 144 pages, not that I’m complaining. On first [...]

{ 13 comments }

April 20, 2009 · 17 comments

Someone Put The Kettle On

in Cakes & Cookies

” … no one is so busy they can’t take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don’t deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup [...]

{ 17 comments }

April 19, 2009 · 5 comments

Amuse Bouche

in Chat

I’ve been a bit lapse recently with blogging, my culinary adventures have overrun my time to actually blog about them, so to keep appetites whet I’m just leaving you with a few (hopefully) tempting photo’s. Some meals I hope to return to blogging in more detail when I have the time, but, if you see [...]

{ 5 comments }

April 14, 2009 · 15 comments

In Search Of Perfection

in Fish & Seafood

Fish and Chips have to be one of the most well loved dishes (and one of the most famous) of the British Isles. After tasting a well made portion you’d be hard pressed to argue against their goodness I’m sure. This classic English dish came from a tradition of street food that was already growing [...]

{ 15 comments }

April 9, 2009 · 15 comments

Buona Pasqua!

in Bread,Pasta,Vegetarian

March 20th marked the first day of springtime but until yesterday the whether hasn’t been at all clement and so I haven’t really felt like cooking springtime food, preferring to stick to warming, comforting dishes instead. However, with the arrival of some warm sun yesterday (I’d like to add here that it disappeared today and gave way [...]

{ 15 comments }

April 8, 2009 · 11 comments

A Hidden Tuscan Treasure

in Bread

I’d forgotten about a lovely wee book I bought in Pisa airport after my last holiday to Italy and it fell off the bookshelf yesterday morning! What a surprise, I just had to bake something from it. I ended up deciding on Schiacciata Con L’Uva – Sweet Grape Bread. Tuscan Desserts: Pastries, Cakes and Sweets by Elisabetta [...]

{ 11 comments }

April 6, 2009 · 8 comments

'Tis A Bit Chilli Round Here!

in Meat,My Recipes

I just love a good Chilli Con Carne but I’ve tried so many disappointing recipes that I thought I’d pretty much given up on eating this as a regular meal. Inspiration came on Friday night, why not just make something up as I went along? Did I really need a recipe to follow? Not really, I mean [...]

{ 8 comments }

April 5, 2009 · 12 comments

Big Chef, Little Chef

in Cakes & Cookies,Desserts,Vegetarian

Big Chef = Heston Blumenthal. Little Chef = Me. By now I suspect you’re wondering what the heck I’m twittering about, aren’t you? Well,I’ll tell you, last Thursday was my birthday and my main gift was the glorious The Big Fat Duck Cookbook by Heston Blumenthal. I’m not really one for playing too much with my food by way [...]

{ 12 comments }

← Previous Entries