Hooray, it’s Photo Friday at last! Today’s challenge is ‘food’, however getting a decent photo of food today would involve tidying the kitchen! So, with the help of my trusty macro lens, here is a photo that’s more in…
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The morning: I had a lovely choc-chip muffin for breakfast today (brought from the coffee-shop at work along with a large capuccino + extra shot). I’m not sure if muffins are *supposed* to have a half-inch crunchy crust of…
I hope you all had a happy Easter and weren’t troubled by too much snow. We kept the chocolate intake to a minimum (which is still quite a lot) concentrating instead on the presentation – hence the All-Bran* chocolate…
I love my new little Le Creuset bean pots! They were half the price of all the other coloured ones on Amazon, so I got all four for about £17. They’ll be lovely with some thick beef stew and…
If you ever need a killer recipe for blueberry muffins I can totally recommend this one at allrecipes.com. I would suggest not converting the recipe to metric if this is what you normally work in – when I’ve done…
You know how people say that blogs are nothing but stories about what people had for breakfast? Well, here’s what I had for breakfast… Notice the hand-made (by those hard working bakers in Sainbury’s) wholemeal bread. No butter! And…
Look at what I made. See how Nigella is looking on all approvingly… These are Nigella’s Snow-Flecked Brownies with my own patented and very classy(!) topping. Add a layer of After-Eight mints when the brownies are straight out of…
Who couldn’t take comfort from this lot? I know I could – just give me five minutes alone with this lot and see the look of comfort and satisfaction on my face!…
Oh my goodness, I think I’ve invented the best recipe yet, even if I do say so myself. There seems to be a glut of blackberries at the moment (not that I’m complaining), and rather than make an apple…
What could be better on the hottest day of the year than some apple and blackberry crumble! Happening to notice a very expensive (£2) tiny punnet of Dutch blackberries in a green-grocers shop we thought – hang on, we…