A comforting winter pudding that won’t spoil your new year’s diet resolutions.
Giant Dinosaur Cookie
Making a giant iced dinosaur cookie. The sugar dough tastes surprisingly appealing and Ted was very pleased with the end result.
Forever Nigella #11: Anything goes
I don’t deserve the lovely readers I have, I really don’t. I mess you about, I disappear, I kind of shrug back and then loaf off again with little more than an occasional tweet. I try to avoid “me me me” outpourings on here but feel I owe my regular readers an explanation for the […]
Paris La Coupole and La Rotonde
A break from cake and sweet things today. Since it’s Easter Sunday you may well have had enough sugar already! This is part two of my three part series about my too-long-unblogged Easter trip to Paris in 2011. Check out part one with my Laduree in Paris visit. Away from my blog, one of my passions […]
End of the Year Round Up 2011
This isn’t the first time I’ve spent part of New Year’s Eve writing a blog post – see the Abba-centric It’s The End of A Decade of 2009 (I loathe going out on New Year’s Eve) but I’m going to make sure I am swifter than the previous occasion. I have promised my husband I […]
Cabana Westfield Stratford
Ever since we met, my husband has waxed lyrical about his personal Shangri-la, a restaurant with STOP and GO signs on the tables indicate to the waiter you would like meat, meat and yet more meat to be served. That was Brazil twenty years ago but now the concept has reached London. Cabana is a […]
A rapid, international Forever Nigella: #10 Christmas Presence
I have been slack I know, whilst I’ve been slogging over my manuscript and appearing to ignore people most of you have probably forgotten about Forever Nigella so beloved in her hey day of 40-50 entries per month. I have neglected dear Nigella for too long and therefore, this will be the last Forever Nigella […]
Bosch Tassimo coffee machine
First let me say that I am not the coffee drinker in our house; my husband is. However when the offer to try out a Bosch Tassimo came my way, I was tempted by the range of branded drinks discs you could easily pop into it. Coffee obviously, with Kenco and Carte Noire varieties being […]
Athenaeum Pudding Parlour
Welcome to the Athenaeum Pudding Parlour! The Athenaeum Pudding Parlour is a new dessert venue. Afternoon tea is all very well but it’s a strange time of day to eat. Not lunch, not dinner and the Duchess of Bedford’s 19th century excuse that one should squeeze in a full blown meal before suppertime quite ridiculous. […]
Making Christmas Party Food at Leith’s
Going out for the night to make your own dinner isn’t something you’d normally do but that’s what a group of bloggers and online writers did last night. Let loose in the kitchens at renowned school of culinary perfection Leith’s, we made our own dinner from a selection of Asda Extra Special products that have […]
Bumper Books Part 6: Best looking cookbooks and Giveaway #31: (CLOSED) Win an Interflora Christmas Cracker Hamper RRP £60
Today sees the final part of the Maison Cupcake Bumper Books Christmas Gift Guide which has been served in SIX digestible parts. And you have the chance to win this scrumptious Interflora Christmas Cracker Hamper worth £60: Most of these books below came out, or where re-issued during 2011, some I own, some I’ve gazed […]
Bumper Books Part 5: Rustic baking and Giveaway #30: (CLOSED) Win one of two copies of “Pieminister”
Welcome back to this week’s Maison Cupcake Bumper Books Christmas Gift Guide served in SIX digestible parts. No fluffy cupcakes today, today it’s proper serious bread and pastry in the spotlight. Most of these titles below came out, or where re-issued during 2011, some I own, some I’ve gazed at in bookstores, all would make […]
