Today I am celebrating my first ever guest post on another blog. Right now you can find me at Maggy’s wonderful children’s crafts blog, Red Ted Art talking about these cute Love Hearts style cookies. Based on the popular sweets, they are perfect for Valentine’s Day and easy to bake with children. Just be careful […]
The First Forever Nigella Round Up
Here goes, all 45 of you in no particular order. Lorraine at Not Quite Nigella looked at all the entries and she has chosen the … *drumroll please* …
Macaron Coca Cola Cake
This picture has a touch of the Fanny Craddock’s about it – by which I mean it looks like kitsch 1970s food photography (of which I am a huge fan). I can explain. I have been taking photos in virtual darkness to the point that I cannot see how dishevelled the cake in front of […]
Cherry Coke Cake in Kugelhopf Mould
My terrifying Coke addiction – the liquid, not the powdered variety – has been mentioned before and it’s perhaps testament to my current non-addicted state that I managed to sit on one third of a bottle of left over Cherry Coke for nearly 3 weeks. For our guests at New Year I made Nigella Lawson’s […]
The Ducane Great Braxted (Guest Post)
The twins have turned into quite a nifty pair of diners, quite happy to sit in grown up chairs and eat whatever is put in front of them at the table. OK, I am painting a rose tinted picture here.
January Bookshelf – Ian Marber
Marber’s books advocate sensible eating plans that re-educate you to eat healthily and prevent weight gain. No seaweed milkshakes here.
Forever Nigella #2 “Seduced by Chocolate”
Challenge: To seduce us all with chocolate using any Nigella recipe or adaptation (see notes below). Wearing of black satin dressing gowns to cook in the dark by fairy lights is positively encouraged.
Honey and Pistachio Gibanica – Serbian dessert
Gibanica (ghee-ban-itz-er) is filo pastry baked with yogurt, egg and oil. It frequently includes salty white cheese similar to feta. I have enjoyed the cheese version many times, it’s equally tasty straight from the oven for dinner or cold for breakfast.
With some yogurt and left over filo triangles from a Turkish supermarket I made these mini gibanicas, my version of a Balkan pastry dish.
Cucuron Provence (A Good Year Movie Location)
We drove to Cucuron and discovered the sleepiest of Provencal villages. Streets were deserted. Saucepans belonging to vielle madames clattered as we passed kitchen windows.
Crying over Nigel Slater Toast
Now Nigella Lawson’s Rapid Ragu may sound a darn sight more stylish with it’s panetta and canned puy lentils but it’s not a million miles from those meaty (and slightly freaky) pasta sauces I used to cook up on the kind of cooker that now belongs in the Geffrye Museum.
Galette des Rois French Epiphany Cake
Today’s recipe is possibly the only one I can think of that requires an item of clothing or an accessory to accompany it. France’s Galette des Rois is traditionally served on January 6 for the Feast of the Epiphany marking the end of twelve days of Christmas.
Breakfast Club Yogurt Challenge
When December concludes with an inflated Violet Beauregarde style waddle, January 1st follows with a hand banging forehead Homer Simpson intoned “D’oh!” at the sight of the scales. Moreover if several fitness and dieting related companies approach you to talk about their products it’s time to bite the bullet – or the rice cake as […]
