The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.
Cupcakes may seem to be the flavour of the moment but us foodies are always on the hunt for the next best thing, we are it [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Vegetarian’
October 9, 2009
Mulling It Over
I must say thank you to Delicious magazine for the inspiration behind last nights recipe creation, mulled wine fruit crumble with clotted cream. I reckon I must be in full crumble mode as it’s only a few days since I made an autumn fruit crumble. I’m putting it down to the cold weather, I enjoy [...]
October 6, 2009
We’re Jammin’
There is no escaping the fact that autumn is well and truly upon us. Mornings are crisp and fresh, with your breath misting in the early air and the nights are drawing in earlier and earlier, creeping in some days soon after lunch, or so it seems. Now this is all well and good if [...]
October 1, 2009
The Crab Shack
As soon as I saw the recipe title Hazel Maizel in Bread: River Cottage Handbook No. 3 (River Cottage Handbook 3) by Daniel Stevens I just knew I’d have to succumb and try it. I have to admit though I was a bit unsure about all the ingredients and as such it was a real gamble for me to [...]
September 29, 2009
The Scented Kitchen
It could be argued that when one is making preserves the kitchen is always scented but add flowers to the mix and you really do get the full head on hit of The Scented Kitchen.
The Scented Kitchen: Cooking With Flowers (Francis Bissell) is a very inspiring book to have in your cookery book collection, but it [...]
September 21, 2009
‘Beena
When I was a young girl if ever I was feeling poorly hot Ribena was the order of the day, it never failed to make me feel better. Now I’m sure the high vitamin C content helped a little but for the most part I dare say it was just that that cup of hot [...]
