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After my excursion into cheese making with the Greek yogurt Total sent me last week (click here), I wanted to do something sweet and dessert-like. My daughter Nicola told me she likes to mix blueberries into the yogurt and drizzle it with honey. I decided to take this a step further and cook the blueberries […]
Read MoreThis is a very simple dessert. But then cooking supper for three hadn’t been in the day’s timetable but came about when Jonathan said on the phone some time during the day that he and Lyndsey were driving back from Wales and there wasn’t much food in their fridge at home … Would you like […]
Read MoreClementines are the quintessential Christmas fruit. In our house, when my children were little, Father Christmas used to drop them into the bottom of Christmas stockings along with shiny new coins and small chocolate treats. My children, in turn, left Santa a glass of single malt whisky and a mince pie. The latter gifts were […]
Read MoreWith rain and a 10 degree drop in temperature today, we’re sadly coming towards the end of the ice cream season. However, not quite yet (does the ice cream season ever really end!) and I’d bought some peaches the other day and left them to fully ripen ready to make into ice cream. I’ve been […]
Read MoreI’ve written before about Torta Caprese – a delicious flour-free chocolate and almond cake – which is a family favourite. We regularly make it for birthdays and other celebrations. It’s the celebratory nature of the cake for the family that made it come to mind when my son Jonathan was discussing with me that he […]
Read MoreMy local farmers’ market in Twickenham had some wonderful produce this weekend and I bought some gorgeous things, including the little iambor – buffalo cheese – that I used in the Griddled Aubergine Salad I made on Saturday. The Chegworth Valley stall had wonderful salad leaves – you can buy a mixed bag or mix […]
Read MoreThose of you who followed my week’s holiday in France last month may recall that I developed an addiction for Cafe Gourmands at the end of meals. I’d first discovered these delights while on a short break to Lille with my son a few years ago and when I saw them on the menu at […]
Read MoreAs I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I have a new oven and so I wanted to bake something to test it out. Ovens always vary a bit and as a cook, one gets used to how your own oven relates to recipes – do you always have to cook a little bit more or a […]
Read MoreIt’s taken me nearly a year to get round to this. Nearly a year because it grew from my holiday in France last summer where deep in the heart of cider and Calvados country we indulged in wonderful Normandy dishes – which often mean apples, cider, Calvados, Camembert cheese and cream. I don’t think any […]
Read MoreWith all this baking going on on TV at the moment, it’s not surprising that a girl finally has to give in and get out the strong plain bread flour. First there was the Great British Bake Off, then Lorraine Pascale popped up baking, and now we have the Bake Off’s very own Paul Hollywood […]
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