How can you look at the title of this post and not be desperate to eat some Nutella immediately? And look at that picture of gooey Nutella stuffed into a warm chocolate chop cookie! Yum! I got the idea for stuffing cookies with Nutella when I saw a collection of ‘seasonal cookies you must try’ […]
Isi’s Christmas stuffing
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 […]
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 […]
Breakfast at Billingsgate
Just after returning from my holiday in Mexico, I was invited to Billingsgate fishmarket in Canary Wharf, London, for a tour and festive breakfast. I thought it was a great opportunity to have a nosey around what I imagined to be quite an intimidating market, and also have a free breakfast, so I immediately accepted. […]
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Bier and Bratwurst in … Moorgate …
When I think of eating traditional German food like big fat sausages, roasted hunks of pork, potato dumplings, sauerkraut and more sausages, I don’t think of the City of London. So when I was invited to a German beer tasting at Bierschenke by Zomato, I was a bit dubious. However, I accepted because I really […]
Foodie penpals – November 2014
November is the last foodie penpals before 2015, as we all take a break in December to focus on Christmas instead, so I was looking forward to my last parcel of the year, especially when I realised that my penpal – Anna – was from the Netherlands. It was her first time participating in foodie penpals, […]
Merry Berry Mistlemoo with Pieminister
I love pies. You can’t really go too far wrong with meat, gravy and pastry … or fruit and pastry. Well, pretty much anything can taste amazing with pastry surrounding it. But there are good pies, and there are not so good pies, and there are awful pies. But my idea of pie hell (I’m […]
Baking with Betty Crocker
I was recently invited to Betty Crocker bake and decorate event in London and was disappointed to discover that Betty was invented in the 1920s by American Mad Men. ‘Her’ first product was Bisquick (still available in shops now) and ‘she’ was introduced to the British market in the 1990s. My brother Jason and I […]