Have you ever tried speculoos biscuits? If you have ever been to a little coffee shop on the continent and been served a lightly spiced, caramel biscuit with your coffee then chances are you have tried one. Or maybe you tried to recreate my homemade speculoos biscuits? My point is, if you haven’t tried them […]
Week 35 – lunch at Ottolenghi’s (review)
As I explained last week, due to travels to Paris for work I didn’t have much luck in the way of planning. I did indeed have pork chops, salmon and faggots, a tasty crab sandwich, plus a delicious Sunday lunch with local pals Isi and Michael earlier today. I made a speculoos cheesecake for pudding […]
Week 34 – gooey cheesy aubergine / eggplant bake (new recipe)
There’s not much for me to share with you about my week ahead, so I thought I would share with you a recipe for gooey cheesy aubergine (eggplant) bake which I made on Monday as one of our meat-free Monday meals (Andrew is getting wise to this, but he has realised that you can have […]
GBBO challenge week 3: bread – soda bread and home-churned butter
I cannot start this post without commenting on Paul’s amazing lion bread sculpture. How impressive was that? I did briefly entertain the idea of making a bread sculpture of my own (obviously in the shape of a cat), but sometimes life is too short eh? Baguettes are something I would like to make one day, […]
GBBO challenge week 2 – Biscuits: oat shortbread Welsh dragon box with cat-shaped bourbon biscuits
I do love biscuits. My favourites, in no particular order, are chocolate coated malted milk biscuits, chocolate coated digestives, hob nobs, and boaster cookies. If we’re talking homemade then I love custard creams and shortbread (I don’t like shop-bought versions of these unless the shortbread is the proper buttery stuff), my nutella-stuffed chocolate chip cookies […]
Week 33 – homemade pasta and chocolate spread tasting
We’ve had a busy week working on our kitchen project this week: what that means is I have been picking out my dream kitchen and appliances, and Andrew has continually reminded me of our limited budget. As I keep telling him, if he thinks I cook well now, imagine how amazing our dinners will be when […]
GBBO challenge week 1 – Cake: Gin & Tonic madeira cake
I do love a bit of Bake Off, and Andrew even lets me watch it … although he only managed approximately 40 seconds of it before he stuck his earphones on. I genuinely don’t understand why he hates the show so much – it’s so relaxing to watch, and of course a great way to pick […]
Week 32 – healthy, happy eating
I know, I know – a day late with my planning post again. You can blame a trip to IKEA for that: as anyone who has been to IKEA knows, you cannot just ‘pop in to pick up a few bits’. We came away several hours later with a trolley full of candles, photo frames, […]
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Foodie penpals – July 2015
Hey, hey, hey – foodie penpals is back! I am a little late with this month’s reveal, but that hasn’t stopped me eating my way through my delicious parcel. This month I was again paired with Selina from BigHomeBird (we were previously paired up in March 2014 and as you can read from that post, […]
Week 31 – August already?
I can’t believe it is already August. Where is the year going? And where is summer? Apart from a few boiling hot days here and there, we haven’t seen a proper summer yet, so I am hoping one appears soon. The year seems to be flying by and before we know it we’ll be buying […]