The Best Warm Ginger Cake with Toffee Sauce in the World
I have called this cake recipe “The Best Ginger Cake with Toffee Sauce in the World” because if I ever need to look up a recipe, that is exactly the kind of thing I...
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The perfect evening – Plum and Ginger Cordial
Ingredients for a very fine evening One hot summer evening filled with bats and crickets and the smell of freshly watered earth. One sturgeon moon rising up over the islands – big and fat...
Ginger ale two ways
Ahoy blog people! It’s Spring Break so I am home from the studio having lazy mornings in bed and driving kids to and from activities and playdates while trying to get some work done...
You say tomato, I say tomato
A word of warning to any pessimistic amateur gardeners out there – if you happen to plant a whole crap-tonne of tomatoes seeds, sometimes they all (and I mean ALL) germinate. This is the...
To Bake Directly
Now that Amelia has started school I am on the look out for ideas for things to put in her lunch box. I saw these biscuits of Mym’s on Poppalina a while back and...
I don’t know about this
Big-P is trying to cut down on his carbohydrates. I am having great pleasure in sending him links to sites such as this: Esurientes. Mmm! So now that he is carb-defying himself this means...
Multiple Buns in the Oven
This year I am determined to serve up homemade hot cross buns for Easter. I decided to give Delia’s recipe a whirl today in preparation as I had a little free time before picking...
The world is my pippy
We’re back from the beach. It was a good, good week with lots of sandy legs and naps and books and scrabble. I was reading Julie & Julia and Nigella’s How to be a...
Cook me a book
It’s the Summer of cookbooks. I have a huge slew of new ones that arrived in time for Christmas – or just after. My outstanding favourite is probably The River Cottage Family Cookbook (Hugh...