It’s Wimbledon season - time to pimp your strawberries!
Strawberries and cream. As quintessentially part of British summer time as the rain, midges, hay fever, nettle stings, unexpected sunburned noses etc etc.Str...
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A Towering Tall Tale: Cake Fest Edinburgh
What did you get up to at the weekend? Making two replica high-rise tower blocks from cake? What? You didn’t? That must just have been me then (and my lovely...
Daring Cooks’ May 2015 Challenge - Turkish Delight
Brinkmanship. Starting your Daring Cooks challenge with 3hrs to go until the posting deadline. Certainly not a triumph of forward planning!<table align="c...
Daring Cooks Challenge April 2015: Homemade Spice Blends
Daring Cooks posting time.On time! 10 points to me :-)Minus 9 points for lack of culinary imagination on my part, and using a homemade spice blend… made by s...
Cakes for a good cause
Since my hot date tonight is of the water bottle and lemsip variety, I thought I’d use the opportunity to post a roundup of the cakes I’ve made so far since ...
Daring Bakers’ March 2015 Challenge: Tarte Tatin
I’m on time with this blog post (or at least in the correct 24hr time period, once time zones etc are considered). Yep, it’s the 27th so it’s the posting day...
Daring Cooks March 2015 - Perfect, Personal Porridge
Porridge! (or proodgie if you type really badly like I just did…)We eat it a lot for breakfast, which is why I chose it as the recipe for the Daring Cooks ch...
Happy New Year - It’s Store Cupboard January!
Hello hello hello.Happy New Year and all that!I do have some lovely recipes up my sleeve, waiting to be blogged when I get a chance, however I’m starting the...
The Daring Bakers’ December 2014 Challenge
Oh goodness. Somehow it seems I’ve not written a blog post since October. And Christmas has somehow come and gone too! 2014 has hurtled past at an alarming r...
Franken-Biscuits and Vampire Cupcakes
It’s Halloween on Friday.And for once I’ve managed to make something seasonal at least a few days in advance - wonders behold. On the other hand, I reversed ...