Posts tagged 'Blog'
05 June 2012
Cooking With A Wonderbag
Sophie came across the Wonderbag on the radio and then The Guardian, so one arrived several weeks thereafter. Basically, a Wonderbag is a modern and green take on the slow cooker and that you find in books as far back as Mrs Beeton’s and even like t...
Read more25 April 2012
Dosas – Southern Indian Pancakes
My parents have recently come back from a wedding in Southern India and they have been to one of my favourite regions, Kerala. They were blown away by the delicious food and already miss the flavours of their staple, the dosa. At about the same tim...
Read more19 March 2012
A Better Version Of Simnel Cake Than My Last Attempt
A year or so ago I made a simnel cake, but it came out rather squat and a tad heavy. The squatness was easily remedied with a smaller baking tin, while the texture was improved through using a lighter recipe with more eggs. I have, also, used an id...
Read more05 March 2012
Having A Crack At Making Pan Pepato
One of my favourite Christmassy things is panforte and I, also, love Nurnberger lebkuchen. It hails from Siena which is probably my favourite city in Italy. There really is something special about sitting out in the Piazza del Campo, looking across...
Read more17 February 2012
Some Recipe Ideas For Laura Santtini's Alchemical Larder Ingredients
I have been asked by several people to give some starting ideas for the various goodies within Laura Santtini's Alchemical Larder box that we provide to Fortnum & Mason, Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges amongst others. So while there is a...
Read more12 February 2012
Homemade Marshmallows
It is not very often that I rip out pages from cookery magazines for use at a later date, so it was a surprise when the other day I found some pages I had ripped from a copy of the magazine, Delicious, from some years back. In it, I had obviously fa...
Read more20 December 2011
Recipe For A Thoroughly Modern Vegetarian Balti
Once in a while, I really need to go without meat of any form and I am going through one of those patches at the moment. So I have tweaked my Chicken Balti Recipe from earlier this year to be more tofu friendly and so usable as a vegetarian dish. At...
Read more11 December 2011
Recipe For Speculaas Biscuits - A Dutch Christmas Treat
One of my favourite Christmas cookies are spekulatius biscuits, or speculaas as they are called in the Netherlands. I remember we always used to get a special parcel from Lebkuchen Schmidt in Nürmberg from my Granny. In amongst all the beautiful ti...
Read more03 December 2011
My Most Well Worn Cookbooks
I don't know whether it is when you really learned how to cook that determines what are your favourite books, or whether some books are just better than others. However, I noticed recently how I still keep on going back to a few cookery books that I...
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