08 December 2010

Elsewhere In Food Blogs (Part 1)

At A Slice Of Cherry Pie, Julia Parsons has been enjoying creating with candelight with a warming goulash for a warming early November night, spiced with the gentle heat of smoked paprika, plus some meringues for pudding.  Then for a warm late Novemb...

06 December 2010

Recipe For Traditional Steamed Ginger Treacle Sponge Pudding

Ginger is a wonderful spice, warming and earthy in flavour with a comforting aroma. For me, it is redolent with memories of warmth indoors with an open coal or wood fire while the outside is heavy with snow. It is also so versatile with the spice b...

29 November 2010

Recipe For Lamb Biryani (Based On Madhur Jaffrey Recipe)

It has been snowing since last Thursday and the long range forecast indicates that the weather will not get any better for the rest of the week; a gritter has just gone past our house in the snow.  Everywhere looks pretty and white, with that eery mu...

23 November 2010

Rich Hot Chocolate Recipe

I have been trying to create a hot chocolate product at Steenbergs and as part of my research I came up with this really rich hot chocolate recipe.  This Hot Chocolate Recipe is something to relax with and enjoy at home, since Sophie calls it "a hug...

21 November 2010

Recipe For German Stollen

My mother is German, our family coming originally from Eastern Germany; in fact, my maternal great great grandfather's family were from even further east in modern Poland, being a headmaster for a school in Gdansk. 

14 November 2010

Traditional Mincemeat Recipe

I am winning with Christmas food preparations this year, which seems unbelievable considering how little time I seem to have to do anything at the moment;. I am running about one week behind last year.  However, as a man who cooks, I do actually find...

13 November 2010

Two Simple Recipes For Chocolate Puds - Chocolate Mousse (Part 2)

Even better than Chocolate Rice Pudding in terms of return on effort is a quick and simple chocolate mousse, which always seems to get a big thumbs up from whoever tastes it, even though it is perhaps one of the simplest things to make.

08 November 2010

Two Recipes For Simple Chocolate Puds - Chocolate Rice Pudding (Part 1)

This recipe for Chocolate Rice Pudding was inspired by reading a blog by Helen Best-Shaw of Fuss Free Flavours fame, who wrote a recipe for Chocolate Risotto with Peaches.  I was intrigued by the concept, especially having just made the Indian Tea In...

05 November 2010

A Journey Back To True Korma Recipes (Part 2) - Banquet Style Korma

Since my blog the other week, I have looked further into the concept and style of traditional korma recipes and have found them a fascinating social history and felt that a korma would be ideal for Diwali.  They seem to be a fusion recipe in the firs...

05 November 2010

Review Of Food Blogs For October 2010 (continued)

Continuing from the first part of my review of blogs, at Not Without Salt Ashley has been making Homemade Honey Roasted Peanut Butter, which sounds so easy and is something I would never have thought of making, like making Homemade Nutella, which see...

03 November 2010

Review Of Food Blogs For October 2010

I cannot really believe that it is already November, the clocks have fallen back and I am preparing for Christmas, with the Christmas cake baked and Christmas pudding slated for this weekend.  So on a cold, windy, dark November morning, I looked back...

08 October 2010

Recipe For Rich Apple Cake

The idea for this cake comes from the wonderful cook book "European Peasant Cookery" by Elisabeth Luard; it is her recipe for Apple Cake or Æblekage, which comes from Denmark.  "European Peasant Cookery" is one of those great cookbooks that is packed...

05 October 2010

Interesting Food Blogs In September 2010 (Part 1)

September has been a busy month for food bloggers.  I think that is partly as many have had a holiday in August and recharged their batteries, but also it is harvest time and so there's a huge amount of culinary stimulation in the fields, gardens, ma...

02 October 2010

Recipe For Fruit Teabread Revisited

For whatever reasons, I have not been quite happy with the original teabread recipe that I created and posted a few weeks back, so I have been playing around with the recipe now and baking away.  Now several teabreads and a family of very happy taste...

28 September 2010

Recipe For Traditional Gingerbread

26 September 2010

Apples, Bloody Apples And An Apple Cake Recipe

We only have three apple trees in our garden, but they have been massively fruitful this year.  In fact, they have produced so many apples I cannot even hope to use them all, even with friends and family taking them.  Nature has been so very fecund t...

25 September 2010

Recipe For Oven Cooked Smoky Barbecued Ribs

We love spare ribs at home and have started eating them even more recently.  It's the primaeval joy of chomping on your food while holding it in your fingers; something our kids truly adore.  In these straightened times, it is also great to use one o...

22 September 2010

Recipe For Pears In Rooibos With Vanilla And Saffron

One of the classics of British cuisine is to poach pears in red wine or syrup.  As a variation on this, I sometimes create a sweet spicy syrup to poach the pears in, then reduce these to a thick, sweet sauce.  Recently, however, I have been...