Your branches are a pomegranate orchard with all precious fruits, henna and roses saffron and spikenard, cassia, cinnamon with frankincense trees, myrrh and aloes all perfect spices … Eat, my friend, drink – lover be drunk with love (The Song of Songs) It’s time again for the Daring Bakers challenge. This month’s challenge is brought to [...]
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I’m so late posting about this Violets Pantry ‘Nigella Express Challenge’ that I feel I must begin by apologising to the lovely Teresa who set the challenge, other meals and life generally just got in the way of posting about the great choice she made but here is the write up at long last. Teresa chose the [...]
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It’s Daring Bakers time again and this month we’ve gone back to sweet treats, and oh my was this treat sweet! This month the challenge was set by Delores of Chronicles in Culinary Curiosity, an absolutely lovely blog, which should I not have been a Daring Baker I doubt I would have come across, or [...]
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Maybe in a past life I could have been a Pizzaiolo (or maybe that should be Piazzaiola as I’m a female?), anyhow a pizza chef; now if that was in Italy I reckon I’d have been one very happy woman Not that I’m bragging or anything but I’m so pleased with the pizzas I make, [...]
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Yay it’s Daring Bakers time again! Not only was this month different because it’s the first savoury challenge I’ve completed as a Daring Baker but the challenge was also partly gluten free and vegan. It had been hosted by Natalie from Gluten A Go Go, and co-host Shel, of Musings From the Fishbowl neither of which are [...]
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It’s challenge time again, this time it’s the turn of Violets Pantry and the current run of Nigella Expresschallenges; further information about which can be found here. This time setting the challenge lay with Nickki who posts on The Claytons Blog which came about so that several of the non blogging Violets Pantry members could participate in [...]
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I owe Minnie a big thank you, why? Simply because she picked the most delightful dish in the current Violets Pantry challenge. The Pantry members are cooking our way through Nigella Lawson’s Nigella Express, with a new recipe every fortnight until all have been cooked. I set the first challenge choosing Curry In A Hurry which is [...]
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There really is nothing to fear about choux pastry (honest), even though it’s the pastry that even the most confident of cooks seem to worry the most about. I think that’s because the choux method is so unlike any other pastry method, no rubbing in, no rolling out, etc etc, the only one it comes [...]
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Bread baking has become a bit of a routine here now, I’d say 75% of our bread is home-made, some achievement I think. It’s been a real cost cutter too, despite the initial outlay of buying the different flours and some dried yeast it works out so much less expensive than shop bought bread, for comparison at our [...]
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How sweet it is to be a Daring Baker, great challenges to further our baking know how and the excuse to eat cake, could anything be reason more to join up? No I didn’t think so either. This month the challenge was set by Mele Cotte, the owner of a fabulous blog. So what was [...]
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It’s challenge time again. This time a Violets Pantry challenge, set by the lovely Brenda, author of Tea and Wheaten Bread which is a stunning blog – fabulous recipes, photography and craic too; what more could you ask for? Please do check out the link, you won’t be disappointed. It’s a while since I completed a [...]
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