Orange cordial is something I find very thirst quenching but hardly ever buy. The amount of sugar, colourants and other preservatives most contain scares me somewhat; even the brands marketed as healthy have an ingredients list that surely baffles all but the most food aware and scientific consumers out there. What with Christmas around the [...]
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‘Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?’ Said the Piggy, ‘I will.’ So they took it away, and were married next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on [...]
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Not so long back I visited Cley Next The Sea in North Norfolk, a lovely place and one that I would return to again and again. The village is home to a fabulous Smokehouse, and of course I just had to bring back a sample of their delightful produce home with me. All the smoking [...]
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Not so long back I joined Twitter, some of you might even have noticed the “follow me” widget in my side bar Twitter is something I’ve put off and put off; do I really need to cram what I’m doing into 140 characters and spout about daily life to the rest of the world? Is [...]
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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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There is no escaping the fact that autumn is well and truly upon us. Mornings are crisp and fresh, with your breath misting in the early air and the nights are drawing in earlier and earlier, creeping in some days soon after lunch, or so it seems. Now this is all well and good if [...]
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Blondies are a non-chocolate variation of the traditional chocolate brownie. They are baked in a baking tray in the oven in a similar manner to how traditional brownies are baked. The name ‘Blondie’ comes from them having a ‘butterscotch’ yellow colour, a reference to the hair color, blonde. Despite the popular misconception that brownies are far [...]
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These bites of chocolate heaven are just perfect for weekend baking, quick mid week baking when you need something to serve for pudding but don’t have much time or energy, or as an impromptu bake when you have unexpected visitors arriving; who am I kidding? These brownies are perfect anytime all the time. Who [...]
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Farmhouse bread for me is the kind of old-fashioned, homey bread that I imagine people of my parents generation and beyond buying from their local bakery or village store on a more or less daily basis. My Dad for instance remembers being sent to buy a farmhouse loaf like this and battling the urge to [...]
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Autumn (also known as Fall in North American English) is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in late March (southern hemisphere) or late September (northern hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier. The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automne in [...]
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