The sound of some new foods intrigues and entices. Exciting combinations or new ingredients leap at you off a menu. The anticipation dances in your mind and flavour hits you before taste touches you tongue and fills your mouth with wonders unknown. The sounds of other new foods don’t always have the same effect. The name doesn’t…
Some things are too darn good not to share. Some things include these. I wasn’t going to post about these. I wasn’t going to admit that aged 23 we are totally back into themed birthday parties. That I am 95% child 5% adult. But there we go. I have. This time it was Harry Potter.…
Monday morning mini muffins- soft and fluffy with nuggets of chocolate leaping high above their cases. Now there’s a good way to start the week! With one… Or two… Or three… They are tiny after all! Before this weekend I hadn’t had much luck with muffin making- they always seemed to end up denser than…
What is your favourite biscuit? Is it the humble digestive or the glorious custard cream? Do you go rich tea or hob nob? Would you go for a pack of festive party rings or welcome a box of M&S’s extremely chocolately biscuits (as really it’s an excuse to eat great hunks if chocolate that you are after…
It was Monday morning, 11am. I was at work and I was flagging. The handful of Werther’s originals hadn’t done it for me and the strawberry blondies I’d brought in just didn’t seem right. I had had my quinoa breakthrough just days before. I wanted something new! I wanted something raw! I wanted these! A…
I can’t pretend I decided to make this quinoa salad for it’s health benefits. However brilliant it’s gluten free, protein packed, calcium crammed credentials are it wasn’t them that sold it to me -it was its name. Quinoa- now that is a funny word! How can you not say it and chuckle?! Spill it and…
Rain rain go away, come again another day… Preferably when we haven’t planned a BBQ… So things don’t always go to plan. With the benefit of hindsight organising a BBQ at the end of May in England a month in advance was pushing it- but oh well- it could have been a sunny evening! It…
Marshmallows, who doesn’t like marshmallows?! Soft and fluffy on their own or toasted into molten goodness fresh from the bonfire oozing out between a couple of chocolate digestives. And that’s just the shop bought ones. Homemade marshmallows are on an other level! Softer, fluffier and squishier! Ooh I want another just thinking about them. I first made…
“If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same” I think Rudyard Kipling may have been talking about making macarons! Ok maybe Rudyard Kipling had more serious things on his mind when he wrote If than macarons but he may could easily have been referring to the little blitters!…
I would argue that the best bit of a cake is the icing. It takes a lot for me to pick a slice that isn’t at least half and half. This cake is definitely an exception! Maybe it is the juicy raspberries within or the moisture given by all that coconut milk but it just…