London’s Best Burgers
Where have I been? What a lax attitude to blogging. It might be fair to say that I’m recovering, after a period of intense dining that firstly almost did me in (in the happiest way) and then propelled...
View ArticleThe Enterprise, Holborn
You know how everyone thinks that their wedding* was the bestest party ever? Well, we're no exception to that rule. Credit where it's due, here are some of the people and suppliers who helped us along...
View ArticleHomemade Halloween: Marshmallow Ghosts
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a newly-married woman in possession of a good kitchen must be in want of a KitchenAid. Actually the newly married has nothing to do with it but we finally...
View ArticleHomemade Halloween Part II – Tiny Teeny Halloweeny Pies
I’ve been meaning to contribute to Sarah’s “Forever Nigella” monthly round-up for ages. I’m a Nigella devotee. Somehow I even seem to have a copy of “Summer Bites” and that book did too, to be honest....
View ArticleGet baking for Movember
If you’re not able to “donate your face” to Movember this year but you know someone who is and you want to help them with some fundraising, there are lots of brilliant moustache related goodies out...
View ArticleLet’s make Christmas [Chutney]
There are a couple of reasons why I haven’t fully embraced the notion of a homemade, handmade foodie Christmas before. Firstly, I’m rarely organised in time to do the sort of longer term, big batch...
View ArticleScrapiana’s Carrot Cake
Lovely Eirlys (aka Scrapiana) generously shared her Carrot Cake recipe with me, and said she didn’t mind if I gave it to you too. This is one of those great cut-and-come-again cakes that keeps well,...
View ArticleHomemade Christmas Gifts [Honeycomb]
I made this huge batch of nougat the other day. It tasted great. It also had its own personality. It was a bit of a free spirit – actually it was kind of sleazy. It wanted to throw itself all …...
View ArticleMy mother’s filthy cheesecake
I never really appreciated this recipe as a child. What I now recognise as a wonderful firm, velvet texture was chalky and bland to me then (and part of a general dislike of anything 'creamy'). The...
View ArticleWin! Extra Special Christmas goodies from Leith’s and ASDA
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View ArticleKicking the histamine bucket
When you look into it there are a lot of slightly conflicting lists of what you can eat if you're sensitive to histamine. I took this lightly but decided to try an exclusion diet in line with the...
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