Okay, I know the Great British Bake Off 2018 finished LAST YEAR, but as you will have noticed, I am not blogging as regularly as usual at the moment, thanks to work and motherhood getting in the way of this lovely blog. However, last year I did complete my challenge of undertaking a Bake Off […]
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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 […]
Foodie penpals – August 2013
This month I was lucky enough to receive my Foodie Penpals parcel from Denise who lives up in Bakewell. Her description of her foodie lifestyle sounded pretty idyllic to me – shopping in farm shops, growing her own fruit and veg and making her own chutneys and jams. She was incredibly prompt in sending her […]
What happens when you leave the freezer door open all day
Yep, you can probably guess what happens when you do something as thick as that … especially when you do something like that on the hottest day of the year so far (okay, I appreciate that doesn’t normally mean much here in the UK but it was pushing 30 degrees last week so it was […]
Cream tea with lashings of cream
I am not sure there is much better combination than a cream tea – warm scone (without fruit for me), a huge dollop of clotted cream topped by some strawberry jam. Even better for me is that you get a pot of tea so you can add your own milk … I am super fussy […]
A thousand leaves, and a thousand calories
We had some friends over for Sunday lunch at the weekend, and it didn’t take me long to decide that I was going to cook roast beef and all the trimmings. Pudding was a bit harder to decide on, as I didn’t want anything too heavy. I asked people on my Facebook page but they […]
It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas …
… In my house anyway, as I have been baking my Christmas cake and making edible goodies for gifts. Firstly, Delia’s Christmas cake, which was recommended to me by several people. I am not a fan of Delia since her cheat cooking show which was a travesty, nor do I have any of her books, […]