Pink is one of those colours I have never really liked. However, getting married and then having a daughter have made me accept pink as a colour and slowly but surely start to like pink as long as it is subtle rather than Barbie coloured. Sophie ha...
Read moreRhubarb is one of the first signs of the fruitfulness of the new season, and I really love rhubarb - we have always had lovely rhubarb at home. There's a Steenberg family story that our sweet rhubarb came from the Russian Royal family, however I per...
Read moreThursday last week was a gloriously sunny, late spring / early summer day. The daffodils are looking gorgeous. I am amazed anew every year at how the garden comes back to life, while I have been doing nothing to it, after a bitterly cold winter. S...
Read moreSimple is best sometimes. Last night, I was struggling as to what to feed the kids now they have gone back to school and time at night has been squeezed ever tighter. So hunting through the bare cupboards, I found some unfinished mushrooms and the...
Read moreWe have been discussing the ins and outs of Yorkshire Salad, and some of the different variations, including a very similar recipe called Granny Salad which Sandra (one of our amazing spice packers) was handed down from her Granny in Devon. Sadie -...
Read moreI know this is really quite pathetic but I have only just cracked how to make fudge in the last year. It always seemed to burn every time I tried to make it - the problem is that most recipes don't give the mixture long enough for the sugar to be tr...
Read moreFollowing on from making pancakes per Sunday's post, we used the 8 pancakes, or crêpes, that this made by stuffing them with a mushroom filling, covering them in a cheese sauce and baking them in the oven. This is how we made it.
Read moreShrove Tuesday is the traditional start of Lent. It has become associated with pancakes in Britain and so everyone spends the day making pancakes. We regularly make pancakes for breakfast which the kids then top with cinnamon sugar or lemon and sug...
Read moreI came across this recipe on the truly amazing food blog of the Californian pastry chef living in Paris - David Lebovitz - which can be found at http://www.davidlebovitz.com/. And I have been meaning to have a crack at making his chocolate macarons...
Read moreI was listening to Radio 4 the other day and they were talking about steam puddings and how it is a truly English traditional that is not found anywhere else. One of the puds they were talking about was Queen of Puddings which was being made at Riv...
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