Seasonally Inspired Recipes & Writing
I’ve been craving really simple, winter warming food. It’s cold and there is something so comforting about all those lovely flavours coming together, especially with winter vegetables, made just the way we have it when we visit home. I have hundreds of cookery books but somehow, I love the way my mum and sister, Elizabeth [...]
This weekend we treated ourselves to a fine American breakfast of pancakes with maple syrup. I was inspired by a recipe in Diana Henry’s newly re-published book Roast Figs, Sugar Snow ,which is packed full of cold-weather recipes. As it happens, Sunday was lovely and mild, but the pancakes did set us up perfectly for a trip to Peppa Pig [...]
Thank you to everyone who left comments for myself and my sister Wanda on my first Blogoversary! Wanda was greatly encouraged and (I hope) enjoyed writing her first post and sharing her wonderful recipes from Italy. Today, I wanted to tell you about a cake I made recently, which was a big hit both with my [...]
Whether or not we buy organic food seems to be a question capable of sparking huge debate. We know that organic food is better for us, but can we justify buying organic food when shopping bills are rising sharply? Is it a luxury to buy organic? Are most of us buying basics ranges? If we buy locally produced [...]
Chocolate Week has definitely been my favourite week of the year so far! A good excuse to eat even more chocolate than normal. In the meantime, I need to tell you about this chocolate cake that I recently made for my little girl who turned two (and is in love with Peppa Pig). I [...]
It’s not over yet, brace yourselves for more cupcakes in celebration of National Cupcake Week! My little boy finished his very first full day at school yesterday, so my little girl and I baked some cakes and prepared a little picnic for his return home. We made these yummy mini cupcakes to a recipe sent [...]
When I read that the theme for Maison Cupcake’s seventh Forever Nigella blog event was ‘Iced Dreams’ (this month hosted by Arthi at Soul Curry) there was no thought process involved – it was straight for the peanut butter, dark chocolate, double cream and golden syrup for me. This really could have been a ‘Silent Sunday’ post with just [...]
Last week I posted an interview with Vanessa Kimbell and hosted a competition to win a copy of her new book, Prepped! As mentioned in the post, Vanessa gave up her job in order to pursue her dream of writing a cookery book, documenting the process through her blog Writing a Cookery Book giving us all a fascinating glimpse [...]
It’s always handy to have a really quick and easy recipe for banana bread up your sleeve, for those times when you have friends popping in for tea or for when you have some really black and over-ripe bananas sitting in your fruit bowl. Here’s a lovely recipe given to me by an American friend, [...]
Last week I caught up on the phone with my sister over in Italy who (during an amazing conversation about Italian food) said that she had seen a really delicious looking sausage and courgette risotto that she didn’t eat, but immediately felt compelled to try herself at home. I did the same and the result was [...]
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