This Spicy Chickpea Soup is based on a curry by Anjum Anand. It is mostly made from store cupboard ingredients. I used to make the original curry on nights my husband wasn’t eating with me as it was quick to make and I love vegetarian recipes even though I’m not vegetarian. This post was also […]
Food Blogger Connect 2009
Unless you count the time I pretended to be busy with a fax machine behind Jeremy Kyle in his Central News reporting days, I’ve never been on TV. Coming soon however, on a download device near you, will be dozens of food bloggers, including myself, confessing their darkest culinary horrors on film. We’re talking serious […]
Plum Tarte Tatins
This is ridiculously easy. In fact I may boast that I have discovered the Holy Grail: a cooked pudding that is respectable enough to serve to guests, very easy to make, not that high in calories, includes real fruit, can be prepared in advance etc etc… It is very quick. My tribute to “Nigella Express”. […]
Banana Pecan Fudge Cake
I’ve seen the light. In November it is very definitely outside. Most of these pictures were taken outdoors, my first time photographing food in the garden. Given the gloom indoors on even the sunniest day, I am really pleased with these pictures and will be heading out there to snap away in my hat and […]
Banoffee Cupcakes with Cream Cheese
These sticky banoffee cupcakes are made with cream cheese icing. They are a fantastic way to use up left over spotty bananas.
HELLP syndrome story
Hellp Syndrome is a complication of pre-eclampsia. My son was born at 27 weeks’ gestation. This is my personal HELLP syndrome story about premature birth caused by Hellp Syndrome. “Hopefully the baby will be early,” remarks a pregnant friend glibly, “I’ve had enough of this now.” It’s odd people say things like this. New […]
Pumpkin Seed Bars with Hemp (Gluten Free)
Given that I’ve been ill in the past week courtesy of the H1N1 virus, it seems appropriate that my first foray back into the kitchen be to make something healthy. I have a confession. I am a dietary schizophrenic. The outcome of which is that I have intermittent Gillian-McKeith-come-Gwyneth-Paltrow-esque spells of healthy eating sandwiched between […]
A Weekend in St Remy de Provence
Too sick to to cook this week, I am taking you a weekend mini break in my favourite town on earth, St-Rémy-de-Provence. As you might expect by the name, St Rémy is at the heart of Provence, southern France around 20km between Avignon and Arles. It has been home to Romans, Nostradamus, Van Gogh and […]
Passionfruit Chocolate Cakes
Passionfruit, chocolate and cream are a heavenly trio in this cake recipe using carrots. These passionfruit chocolate cakes were a variation on a roulade recipe. I’d attempted to remake my pumpkin buttercream previously seen topping the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes. It went the way of the Hummingbird cream cheese frosting so I frantically whipped up […]
Chocolate Macarons with Beetroot Chocolate Fudge Filling
Chocolate macarons are just as delicious even if you don’t get them right. These were made from a David Lebovitz recipe but before I’d perfected how to do them! Beginner’s luck is a terrible thing. My first macarons, pecan pie with salted caramel fudge filling were a rip roaring success and I’m afraid to say […]
Chocolate Aubergine Cake
Eggplant recipes and chocolate cake are not normally something you’d expect to find in the same sentence but the beautiful cake you see above is made with aubergine (or eggplants depending what you call them). The Heartache Chocolate Cake, featured in Harry Eastwood’s Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache claims to be the new healthier way to console yourself […]
Orange Saffron Polenta Cake
You may be familiar with Harry Eastwood from her Channel 4 series, “Cook Yourself Thin”. Her book Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache is full of cakes made from vegetables. I’m not going for obvious Hallowe’en references this year but I can promise you this blog post features bleeding and stabbing. If you can’t face the full […]
