It was little S’s ‘St day’ last week, not an occasion many people celebrate in the UK but I felt the urge to cook something pretty to mark it.
June is peak British strawberry season, and it’s easy to over-buy, they are so sweet, perfumed and tempting! This often results in bowlfuls of slightly tired, past their best berries unless y…
Early summer in England is all about the strawberries and what goes better with strawberries than scones? Here’s a simple variation on a scone recipe.
I think most people love a luxury chocolate some time or another, but with a dairy and nut-free diet they can be hard to come by.
I haven’t rolled out my egg-free meringue recipe for quite a while, but having seen a bag of beautiful blackcurrant meringues in the Ottolenghi window display the other day, I thought I’…
I haven’t made a proper cake for ages – somehow it always seems more convenient to make cupcakes, but every now and then you can’t beat the visual appeal of a stunning centrepiece…
The fruity theme continues! This recipe evolved from a total experiment – I was going to make a traditional strawberry cheesecake for pudding, but wondered how it would work if the strawberri…
I recently went in for a competition run by Hummingbird Bakery to win a copy of their new book and a KitchenAid (I dream of owning a KitchenAid!).
I’ve splashed out and bought myself an ice cream machine – I’ve wanted one for so long, but our previous freezer was too small to fit the bowl in! Expect frozen treats aplenty thi…
We were off to a friend’s house for a lovely lazy BBQ Sunday and having reminded them of our considerable dietary requirements, I felt that I really needed to make an effort to bring somethin…
This autumn term has reintroduced Thursday bake day into my life, the day when I bake goodies for the girls to take into school to share with their friends.
We’re just entering strawberry season in the UK and at this time of year our strawberries are simply divine – sweet, juicy and nothing tastes more of an early English summer.
Egg-free soufflé you say? Impossible! How on earth could you make a soufflé without any eggs? It’s another one of those dishes that seems out of reach.
Hello summer! A long one for sure, living in a land that unquestionably has four seasons- tolerable, hot, very hot and ARE YOU KIDD.
As far as consistent recipe writing goes, the five cooking magazines I bought the other day and timely pinterest intervention had m.