You’ll know from my recent #Nofilter post that I rather love Switzerland … and that’s in no small part due to the lovely food there. You can’t really go too far wrong at the dinner table when everything is liberally covered with melted cheese (even better – cheese which has been melted INTO WINE!). Mmmmmmmm. […]
Eating in
Mum’s fish and chips
I always think I know best (well, I do know best) but you can’t blame me for that attitude – I get it from my mum. So you can imagine when we’re in the same room and disagree about something – arguments and then stroppiness generally ensue (from us both). Growing up on (what seemed […]
GBBO 2014 challenge week 5 – Somerset apple tart
Pies and tarts were the subject of this week’s Bake Off, and Norman (who practically dredged the entire studio in icing sugar when he ‘dusted’ his tarte au citron) was booted off, despite the fact that they are one baker down now that Diana has pulled out of the series due to illness. I think the […]
A feast of Pink Lady apples
The other day I was sourcing some new recipes and happened to mention to a lady who does the PR for Pink Lady apples (I hadn’t realised that apples needed their own PR, so you really do learn something new every day) that I needed to find some apple recipes, as puddings made from apples […]
South African Bobotie
I like to think of myself as being quite adventurous in the kitchen (by which I mean that I am adventurous as a cook, not that I have a climbing wall in the kitchen or abseil down from the bathroom each morning), but there are a few food combinations that just leave me cold, and […]
A lighter meal with Quark
I came across Quark a few years ago when I was doing Weightwatchers to shed some pounds. All the other ladies I met were shouting about how wonderful it was because it tasted creamy despite being almost fat free, and so I found myself experimenting with Quark on their recommendation: making cheesecakes and eton mess […]
Creamy chicken orzo and mini victoria sponges
When I recently visited my lovely friend Charlotte (recently a new mum to the beautiful Henry, and one of my Alphabet Adventures buddies), her mum Jill made us a gorgeous dinner of creamy orzo pasta with chicken, followed by a lemon fudge cheesecake. Jo, the third in our AA trio, was also there and we had a […]
Happy birthday to me – Nutella cheesecake
It was my birthday on Sunday, hence the peace and quiet from this neck of the woods over the weekend. I have managed to stretch out the celebrations to well over a week, starting with a visit from my mum last Wednesday where I cooked her a great chicken, asparagus and orzo pasta recipe … […]
Meal planning Monday – 9 June 2014
Good news and bad news from last week. The good news was that Team AXA won the Macmillan Cancer Support House of Lords v Commons tug of war. It was a lot harder than I had anticipated but the adrenaline rush was fantastic when we won (either that or the effect of the champagne – […]
Meal planning Monday – 26 May 2014
So, the kitchen is finished. I have bored you all to tears with my tales of woe whilst I was unable to use it due to renovations, but it’s back, I survived, and am looking forward to doing some cooking for the week later on today. But, next we move on to the bathroom: unfortunately […]