I absolutely love Paxo’s sage and onion stuffing: it’s a happy memory from my childhood to have balls of their stuffing with every roast dinner, and although I now make it in a baking tray instead of rolling it into balls (why risk the third degree burns?!), I always have a box in my cupboard […]
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Merry Quarkmas! Boozy lemon trifle
After attending a Lake District Dairy Co event a few months ago, I was clearly on the Quark radar, as they got in touch with me to see if I’d like to take part in a ‘Merry Quarkmas’ Christmas recipe challenge: to make a naughty but nice Christmas pudding recipe using Quark. As I do […]
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A cheat’s Christmas cake
If I am ever presented with a cake menu (sadly, not often enough) then I suspect that hell is more likely to freeze over than I am to choose a fruit cake from the menu: generally I feel that fruit wasting the space that could be used by delicious cake, or cream, or jam, or […]
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Sausage rolls for Christmas
Ever since I can remember, I’ve always had sausage rolls at Christmas. I remember my mum used to but those bags of 50 cocktail sausage rolls from Iceland which she’d cook all in one go, leave them to cool on the counter, and then shout at my brother and me each time we pinched one or […]
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Celebrating It’s not easy being greedy’s birthday with chocolate beer cake and choc chip cookies
Hey, hey, hey, it’s my birthday. By which I mean it’s my blog’s birthday – I wouldn’t be quite so enthusiastic about my own as I edge closer and closer to 40! So, 27 October 2013 was the day I wrote my first blog post. On this day last year I celebrated the blog’s 1st birthday, […]
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 challenge week 8 – doughnuts
Mmmmmmmm, doughnuts. Deep fried sweet dough, filled with jam and coated with sugar – delicious! Actually, I have never made doughnuts before – I always tend to shy away from anything which requires deep frying in case I accidentally set fire to myself or the kitchen – but I came across a recipe by Jo […]
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Great Ormond Street Hospital Bake it Better bake sale – rich chocolate cake
My lovely friend Charlotte is letting me bake a cake for her son Henry’s christening later in the month, and because I have been feeling the pressure, I wanted to do a test run of the cake. This meant that I had a 50 portion chocolate cake which needed a home last week, and as […]
GBBO 2014 challenge week 7 – eclairs
More apologies from me for getting behind on my Bake Off challenge for this year – seriously, the weeks are flying by, and I can’t believe it’s nearly Christmas! In fact, I actually made my week seven challenge last weekend, but I haven’t had time to write about it yet. These challenges are getting seriously […]
GBBO 2014 challenge week 6 – salted caramel torte
Wow – time is really flying, and I am starting to get behind on my Bake Off challenges. I did actually make this little beauty the weekend after episode 6 aired, but have struggled to find the time to write it up. So week 6, if you don’t remember, was European week. In between Mel […]