Melt in to the Months of Mist & Mellow Fruitfulness With yet another overflowing bowl of apples gracing my kitchen table I had to come up with some way of using them up. I didn’t really want to make a pie or a crumble, though I couldn’t exactly say why – sure we’ve had cold [...]
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I recently set up a weekly order with Abel & Cole (I wasn’t very happy with my old delivery scheme and had previously tested some of Abel & Cole’s produce with fabulous results). I plumed for the Deluxe Organic Fruit Box and Seasonal Salad Box. Abel & Cole also, very kindly, sent me a Mixed [...]
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Vegetables For Dessert Don’t mistake rhubarb for a fruit; although it is often cooked to eat as a dessert and commonly combined with other sweet fruits, rhubarb is technically a vegetable, it’s a member of the polygonaceae family and related to sorrel. Rhubarb is an excellent crop to grow in Britain, enjoying cool climates and [...]
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A Total Delight I love Greek yogurt. Other thinner bio type yogurts I could easily pass up but not the thick, creamy Greek yogurts. They make the perfect breakfast or light, healthy pudding. My favourite way to eat it is topped with a generous portion of summer fruits, cold fruit crumbles or even with a [...]
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With the sun shining and summer warmth beginning to creep into our days what could be better for dessert than cheesecake? With their fresh and fragrant vibrancy a cheesecake can scream of summertime, or at least they do to me. The first recorded mention of cheesecakes is believed to have been during an ancient Grecian [...]
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I adore chocolate mousse, it is a dessert I remember very fondly from my childhood. For me there was something about eating the mousse so slowly, like half a teaspoon at a time and allowing the bubbles to gently and almost magically ‘melt’ on your tongue. Hence when I came across a recipe for an [...]
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The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession. Tiramisu is one of my favourite desserts, and one that [...]
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When I read about Deeba’s Praline Pumpkin Pie over on Twitter a few weeks ago I just had to make it myself. The recipe originally comes from the book Park Avenue Potluck Celebrations; but as per usual I’ve made a few changes along the way. Pumpkin pie is a traditional North American sweet dessert, a [...]
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After Pear Cafe began discussing on Twitter the fact that it is National Chocolate Week this week, I decided I would just have to bake something. How could such a week go unnoticed, especially by a chocaholic such as myself? Autumnal weather always leads me on to thinking about Bonfire Night (5th November) and the associated food [...]
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I must say thank you to Delicious magazine for the inspiration behind last nights recipe creation, mulled wine fruit crumble with clotted cream. I reckon I must be in full crumble mode as it’s only a few days since I made an autumn fruit crumble. I’m putting it down to the cold weather, I enjoy [...]
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I didn’t go visiting the famous lavender fields when I went to Norfolk but I did buy a lavender plant and some lavender honey, oh and I did mange to get this shot of Murphy playing camouflage behind the huge lavender bush in our holiday cottage. I had a huge glut of apples sitting in my fruit [...]
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