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...
Read moreContinuing 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...
Read moreI 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreThere has always been a place in my soul for some of the Indian Gods as they remind me of my grandmother, who spent many years in India and so her small flat in Munich had this exotic feel as it was full of momentoes of here years and love of India. ...
Read moreSeptember 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...
Read moreFor 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...
Read moreWe 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...
Read moreWe 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...
Read moreOne 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...
Read moreHaving gone through the fuss and carry on of marinading venison in stock per the previous post, I wondered why you do not just make a stew in the normal way as you would for beef or lamb. Also, I still had some of the Hornby Castle venison in the fr...
Read moreI bought some delicious venison steaks and diced venison the other day from Hornby Castle in North Yorkshire. Since then, we have been experimenting with a couple of different casseroles, and have come up with two different ones - a traditional rich...
Read moreWe have always loved teabreads here at home like those made by Elizabeth Bothams of Whitby, but I reckoned that some of those homely, comforting cakes could not be too difficult to make. So this weekend I set out to make a traditional Fruit Teabread...
Read moreThis recipe began as one of those serendipitous events when on holiday this July in Scotland. We had one of those small kitchens that has no equipment and a very temperamental cooker, plus we had brought almost no ingredients with us. Then around a...
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