What to do, what to do with a heap of egg yolks from my various macaron making disasters? (See what happened with the mince pie macarons if you haven’t experienced these yet). Having recently done a vanilla custard for mince pie ice cream I opted this month for some flavoured custards. First up is chocolate custard pudding. […]
Royal China Club with a toddler in baby reins
Writing about restaurants is not something I really do, mainly because with a two year old, I rarely venture anywhere more imaginative than various branches of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Pizza Express with their child friendly packs of crayons and high chairs. The envelope was being pushed last Sunday with a trip to the plush […]
Cake A Difference for Bliss
Gel food colouring has infinitely improved my confidence making icing. After the problems I’d had getting the right colours when making the Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake, I decided to invest in some gel food colouring. Mine are little pots of Wilton gel food colouring which come in a box of eight colours. They cost […]
Postcard from… Ghent Belgium
This weekend’s Saturday Postcard comes from Ghent in Belgium, one of the larger towns in the Flemish part of the country. On a weekend trip on the Eurostar we were visiting one of my former college friends who at the time was living in Waterloo, some 30 minutes south of Brussels. My first trip to Belgium […]
Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake with 24 Cute Cupcakes Body
This Very Hungry Caterpillar cake was my first creation for a stranger. Someone emailed a picture making a very hungry caterpillar cake showing a large cake for the caterpillar’s head and a trail of cupcakes. They asked if I could do something similar. I had more icing sugar than I would need but I know […]
Leek Goats Cheese Tart
I am fond of the word “quiche” as my Grandma Kitty used to remind me of an occasion when I embarassed her in Nuneaton’s Attleborough Co-op in around 1985:
Grandma at deli counter: “I’ll have some of that quit-chee please”
My 11 year old self: “Grandma! It’s keeeesch!”
The France Show at Earls Court
Before you read this post, be warned that Blogger is double spacing my paragraphs and it’s driving me nuts. Something about this month’s Mactweets macarons was to be new. “Maybe drying out fruit to create a new flavour/colour powder, try Italian meringue, try new flavour combos, try getting feet if you’ve never done that before… […]
Postcard from… Lyon galette des rois
This blog post marks the first in my new series of Saturday mini-posts which will be called “Postcards from…” I will use it to share anecdotes and pictures coming from holidays, friends and family around and about. Today’s postcard is from my uncle in France. Galette des Rois Villeurbanne, Lyon, Jan 6 Dear […]
Cream Cheese Blondies With Black Pepper Boursin
Final installment of my trio of recipes using up seasonal ingredients. Having dealt with the mincemeat and chestnuts we’re moving on to something more obscure. For some reason I always buy a pack of Boursin with Black Pepper at Christmas to be the soft cheese in my cheese selection. Seduced by the memory of that […]
Butternut Squash Chestnut Soup – Fast 10 Minute Recipe
Butternut squash chestnut soup is a perfect recipe after New Year. Healthy food that can be produced virtually immediately is a jolly useful thing when you’re trying to eat healthily in January. Re-visiting soup for the latest Monthly Mingle after it was the subject last month was not my plan. However, with this month’s theme […]
Mince Pie Ice Cream (to use up Mince Pies)
Still a few mince pies knocking about after Christmas? Use up left over mince pies and save a taste of Christmas with this mince pie ice cream recipe.
It’s the end of a decade…
…the decade when I became a wife, a home owner and a mother. I hadn’t planned on posting until next week but have been busy reading everyone else’s round ups. Although I started this blog in July, it wasn’t until around September that it started to take shape and look like a proper food blog […]
