I've always been totally fascinated by the alchemy of cooking and baking .
. . it's all so very magical to me . . . I find myself sitting sometimes
and w...
Scones are something I make regularly as my family love them, grandchildren
too; they're so quick and easy. So I was delighted to see that this month's Te...
*Dear Reader,*
*Here's just a short note to let you know that I haven't let you down...*
*Lately, I have been under the weather and quite incapable of doin...
They found her in the sheugh.* Well… it was actually Patsy the dog that
found her. Jim took Patsy for a walk each evening before turning in for
the night,...
By Stroppy Jenny knew she had placed it on the bureau in the den. She
always put things there that she knew she had to come back to and discuss
with Max. B...
An old fuel-saving idea has been reinvented for the 21st century. In the
developed world a 'Wonderbag' will save you money - elsewhere it helps save
live...
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*Get in the mood for St. Patrick's Day with this rich, chocolatey, moist,
out-of-this-world chocolate guinness cake from ...
BabyCakes NYC is an all natural, allergy aware bakery based in New York. In
recent months I have read many rave reviews of them on blogs and always
longed...
as you know, dear reader, I am not one for doing a review but I had such a
wonderful evening last night I thought I should share it with you...
apologies...
When I was asked if I'd be interesting in reviewing the latest selection
from Matcha Chocolat, I nearly bit Katie's arm off. I'm a big fan of Katie
Christ...
I was watching This Morning last week and I always enjoy the cooking
segment. That day Fay Ripley was making a few recipes from her new
cookbook, What's fo...
"And you may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house..."
Shrewd readers will note that these photos haven't been taken at my place.
Less shrewd rea...
Here is an article from Gourmet Live that proves we wouldn’t take pleasure
in a multitude of various food stuffs, restaurants or cafes that we do in
our da...
This is a new thing I am starting.
I follow a number of brilliant blogs via Bloglovin' - a great site where
you can read all your favourite blogs in one...
Want tickets for Cake International, the hottest baking and sugarcraft
event this spring? You’ve come to the right place. Three years ago when I
started th...
tazza e cucchiaino : greengate
Chi non ha mangiato o preparati questi biscotti dalla famosa marca MB ?
Difficile pensare che ci sia qualcuno che non...
My family's traditonal recipe for Koliva will be my next post.....I just
need to corner my mother for some help with this one.....
I'll be back very soon ...
I wonder if I'm the only one with this problem? I sometimes think that there are little kitchen fairies that you have to please in order for your baking to w...
*Some of you (that know me more time) know how I love make Ice cream at
home, all these years Im blogging and made my Ice cream to antique type,
freeze...
Multigrain Apple Crisps As for the whole wheat flour, you could also use
whole wheat pastry flour here or white whole wheat flour (as I did in one
of my te...
When you talk to people about fennel, they are either in the pro or con
camp. There doesn’t seem to be some sort of middle way when it comes to
fennel. Gra...
Here's a fact about me you probably don't know, though it wont surprise
you. I don't like ironing. I also have a thing against day time
television. I th...
Every couple of months a small group of us choose a cookbook author (or
cookbook) to focus on. It's a casual affair, and people leave notes and
insights...
When my son and I bought a package of mini marshmallows from Coles, I
recall seeing a Junior Masterchef contestant, Miraede making her sheep
cupcakes with ...
Eccoci con una ricetta semplice: un passato di Pastinica, ovvero una radice
molto simile alla carota, solo che ha un colore molto meno intenso, il
gusto ...
Yeah…sorry about that Thumper. A Sunday ago (before all of that engagement
excitement) I had some blogger buddies (namely Lucy, Sharon and Bill,
Catherine ...
Hold on to your fillings! If my last post on Marshmallow Laced Hot Fudge
Sauce didn't get your dentist and dieticians begging for mercy then the
Triple ...
I have a bit of an interest in cakes tagged with ‘favourite of’ or ‘liked
by’ the Queen Mother, our present Queen’s mother who passed on a number of
yea...
Icebox cake, is really not a cake at all; it’s layers of chocolate wafer
cookies and whip cream. So, what’s up with the name? Once the cookies and
the crea...
Reuben is a gorgeous little chap who was born back in November. As
tradition states I give new mums cakes. Both Maggie’s & Rose’s mums got
bite-sized cakes...
I have resisted the phenomenon that is cake pops because I can never get
past the line in the method that instructs you to break the cake into
crumbs. I...
(Pecorino Stagionato sotto fieno e miele and accompaniments) Following on
from the bread we baked for the banquet, our next responsibility was the
cheese c...
According to one of the many helpful tip pins on Pinterest, if you would
like your house to smell like the Williams Sonoma store follow these simple
dire...
Our kitchen project is now complete and the workman will be here to install
the wood floors for the lower level of our little cottage on Monday. To say
t...
I had a difficulty putting the title to this post. I'm not sure if these are carrot fritters or little carrot patties. When I think of fritters, I think of a...
For this month's Random Recipes Dom has invited us to return to the first
book we chose for his challenge and to once again randomly choose a recipe
fr...
This is a great dish to leave simmering on the stove for 45 minutes or so
unattended. Mincing and chopping could take place while the chicken
pieces ...
Quick breads, that is. Now what is a quick bread? To me, it's a cake baked
in a loaf tin. In my family, if something is baked in a loaf tin, it needs
butte...
I am very proud of this cake. I made it for our friend Leo who just turned
1! It is a 12" cake and I have never made such a big cake. I used the
recip...
When you see one bouncing merrily across your blog you know it’s been too
long since you last posted anything. So after “that post” about quality
over quan...
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Movin...
I am a little stressed at the moment, it will pass, but we are on the move
again, off to Shanghai at the end of March for a few years. I am excited,
but ...
It’s hard to believe that it’s the last week of the online food photography
and styling for bloggers workshop that started in early January! It’s been
a gr...
Fresh from the oven is changing and this blog will no longer be updated. If
you still want to see the breads our members bake every month or better yet
joi...
Since Lotte's Kitchen opened on April 30th last year our cakes have gained
quite a reputation. Not the bad kind you understand - but the delicious,
naughty...
"Chocolate and beetroot? Crazy!"
That's basically what I thought when I first heard of this recipe a few
years ago, but I've seen lots of other food blogg...
Savoury cake
This post was inspired by a random email from someone who bought a savoury
cake from a range I produced for a Christmas Slow Food market at ...
In our Countdown to Christmas, I could not resist adding another dessert to
our already packed dessert buffet for Christmas. We already have mom's
trifle...
It has been a while since my last post, hasn't it? Quite a few of my
friends and followers have emailed and asked if I was coming back and to be
honest...
*The World Cheese Awards took place on Wednesday, 23rd November this year
at the NEC in Birmingham and the results have been announced today. The
followi...
*Amiche, amici, simpatizzanti, ho aperto un nuovo blog: *
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*ove, per non disperdere i miei contribut...
I love almondy things, to the point that I would happily sit down and eat
an entire block of marzipan. So Battenburg, one of the challenges on the
great ...
Was in need of some comforting food and really taste as well this
afternoon. So I made this and boy! did it hit the spot. Ginger is so good
for the tummy a...
I love chocolate and I love coconut hence I have always loved Coconut
Roughs - all Aussies will know what I am speaking of. For those of you who
are wonder...
Getting Smokey Whether you know it as mutabbal, moutabal, caviar
d’aubergines or baba ganoush, the smoke-scented aubergine puree is a
classic. Baba ganoush...
Yes I know, another cake recipe, I just can't help myself. I have to be
totally honest with you here and confess that I've officially sickened my
husband...
This summer, I've been struggling with my desire to eat nothing but peanut
butter milkshakes (and Peanut Buster Parfaits, and Tin Roof Sundaes, you
get t...
4 weeks of not updating my blog.. Oh the horror...!
And no, it's not because of me being such a lazy bum :P
I just came back from my holiday/educational/...
This is a quick and easy dessert for a cool evening which you can use with
any kind of seasonal fruit. Apples work particularly well, I sometimes add
some...
I can't believe I've neglected my poor, innocent blog for the best part of
a year! I've decided I need a hobby to fill a void in my meaningless life
and t...
Oh, wow. Loooong time no post.
Life gets busy with an infant around! I've still been cooking and trying
new recipes once in a while, I just haven't been get...
As I mentionned yesterday, I will now be writing somewhere else. Not
because I’m not in like with foodbeam anymore, but because it feels right.
Just like t...
*LEMON CURD*
*(Makes about 4 cups)*
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I finally had a bit of spare time to make use of some of the hundreds of
large lemons we have again this year, so......
With Halloween done and dusted my attention has turned towards Bonfire
Night and of course the cakes that I want to make to celebrate. For this
little pr...
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filling too because of the lentils.
Fry onion, celery and garlic in a little oil ...
Now do excuse the smudge on the plate. It was only after I'd eaten the
pudding that I realised that moving the strawberry was not the best of
ideas!
This ...
Oh my! I didn’t realise it’s the 27th already! Well in fact it’s almost the
28th!
The July 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Sunita of *Sunit...
This is just a quick post to tell you about a couple of events I'll be
attending next month in the hope that I may see some of you there.
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Dear readers,
I was contacted by my Italian friend Manu (she lives in Milan and love...
Dear followers and visitors, i am now blogging at Understanding Alice
rather than here, so if you would like to see my latest food offering (at
time of wri...
* Oh dear! Bit of a headache this morning. Had a roaring party in the
kitchen. Overindulged in that potent mixture of furniture polish and
porridge oats. W...
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daughter here - Miss R. posting on her behalf. My mum sends you her
apologises for he...
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*Has it been six months already since I have made a new post on this blog?
My, how time flies when you are having fun.*
*Since I have been away, I have ...
A few days ago I bought Jo Pratt's new book In The Mood For Entertaining.
This is a lovely looking book and the photos are gorgeous. There are so
many rec...
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*.* Call by at my new blog for all new bakes and recipes.
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keyboard just remembering everything I ate in NYC (and oh yes, this is no
lie...
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gorgeousness English Mum for not having her on my blogroll. I am a shoddy
fellow Iri...
This was such an elegant and extremely easy recipe. The honey balsamic
glaze on the sweet pears was so flavorful and delicious. It went perfect
with the t...
Having a day off and for myself today, as I have been working all weekend.Have just had my second cup of coffe, and am thinking of what to spend my day doing...
I love cooking with maldon sea salt. I prefer it instead of ordynary table
salt. Why?
They are salt flakes. You can use them like that or grind them finel...
I discovered this recipe a couple of weeks ago on the RecipeZaar site
whilst looking for a salad to use up some cooked basmati rice I had in the
refrigerat...
17 comments:
Thanks!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!
Cheers,
Rosa
oh and a very merry Christmas to you too Granny xxx
A very merry Christmas to you and yours,and all the best for the New Year.Thanks for all your very tasty recipies.
Hugs Sue xx
Many happy returns.
Thanks for a year of wonderful reading and great ideas.
Thank you, A very Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thanks Granny! Merry Christmas to you and your family! ♥♥♥
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours. A Happy and Healthy 2011 with time for us to catch up once more over a coffee!
Merry Christmas from Our Scented Cottage!
Been playing catch up here Granny! Everything looks so good and that winter sunset is beautiful! A very Merry Christmas to you and yours!!! xxoo
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you and your family too...
Best wishes for everything for the new year 2011 :D
Merry Christmas to you and the family!
My dear Brenda I whish you a Happy and lovely Christmas with all your family!!! gloria
Lovely Post!!!
Granny, hope that the holiday season irrorino Your house of peace, serenity, the inevitable health and prosperity.
Hope and enjoyed Christmas and my best wishes for the New Year!
I hope you had a great Christmas,
Best wishes for you and your family!
Barbara
Do hope you had a lovely Christmas too.
Hope you had a good one xx
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