Free ebook Out Now! Summer Plates is a collection of eleven recipes that regularly find their way to my dining table in the summer months. Most have been passing through my kitchen for years in some guise, blurring over time to become more of a general idea than a finite plan. This past month I …
Category: Food
The Hamper: Crumble Topped Spiced Apple Pies
It’s a little unfathomable to me, but some folk don’t care a mince pie. Something about dried fruit just doesn’t do it for them. Personally, I think they’re crazy, but let’s be inclusive. There are two ways to go about this recipe and either is perfectly acceptable, absolutely no judgement here. You can make your …
Things To Make Isolation Marginally Easier: Leftover Muffins
I’m fairly sure I’m not alone in saying that the past few weeks food has been on my mind a lot. Buying it, trying to buy it, thinking about what I might need, what would last, what I could do with what I had… A lot of time spent thinking about food. I’m notorious for …
How To Make The Best Ever Roast Potatoes.
I firmly believe the roast potato is the King of the Christmas Dinner. Perhaps it’s because I’m a vegetarian and everyone else’s King (the devil on horseback) doesn’t land on my plate, or perhaps it’s just because years of practise, trial and error have lead me to a recipe that creates the perfect roast potatoes, …
A Recipe For Plum & Star Anise Jam
Growing up we had two trees at the bottom of our garden: an apple tree that brought us small, bitter fruit and a plum tree that delivered nothing short of a tonne of plums every single year. Each year my mum would take the plums, stew them and turn them into a simple crumble. There …
The Picnic Edit. Tackle National Picnic Week In Style.
This week, if you didn’t happen to be aware, is National Picnic Week. Yup, there is indeed a week dedicated to the art of picnicking. Rather perfectly it falls in the same week as the longest day and the official start of British Summer Time, so there seemed like no better time to compile …
A Recipe For Lemon, Thyme & Pistachio Bundt Cake.
The tableware and linen used in this post were kindly gifted by The White Company. I don’t know that any taste signifies the arrival of summer quite like the sharp, fresh kick of lemon. Combine that flavour and vibrant colour with a cake and you’ve got yourself the perfect addition to a sun-drenched weekend. …
A simple recipe for banana & oat bread.
It’s come to my attention over the years that folk are rather peculiar when it comes to bananas. The single hint of brown upon their skin and half the population is repulsed and couldn’t possibly consider touching them. Package those browning bananas in the form of a cake however and they’ll happily gulp it …
A Recipe For Cashew, Coconut & Date Energy Balls.
January can be a little tough on the old soul. After the buzz and lights of Christmas it can seem a drained. Everyone seems to exist in the a constant state of remorse for each and every chocolate, piece cake and cocktail that passed their lips in December. There’s no judgement here, I’m one …
The Second Sunday.
I like to the think of the August Bank Holiday weekend as summerās final hoorah. The eagerly anticipated arrival of the year’s penultimate three-day weekend signifies Autumnās soft approach. Quietly it will creep into our days, slowly staking its annual claim on our lives, but not without allowing summer to deliver us one last gloriously …