Last week was a busy baking week, getting ready for BFF’s big birthday, which required a big and tasty cake. I knew exactly which cookbook I wanted to bake from: Sky High Cakes. I bought this book purely because I had drooled over the results that Ed Kimber had shown on his blog, He Eats. [...]
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Sky high praise for Sky High Cakes
July 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Baking, Cookbooks, Foodie blogs, Foodie gifts, Sweet treats
Tags:3 tier cakes·Baking·home baking·Sky High Cakes·Special occasions
What are you doing this weekend?
June 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Foodie Travel, Foodie blogs, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie treats, Places to eat
Me, I shall be exhibiting some very bad dance moves under the influence of half a shandy at Party in the Park. Which is a serious dent in my foodie credentials (not to mention cool rating) as I guess I should have been heading to Taste of London. And having read Niamh’s review of her [...]
Tags:Bentley's·Chocolate·Eat Like a Girl·eating out·Ingredients·Munchy Seeds·Nudo·olive oil·Paul A. Young·Taste of London·The Modern Pantry·Tom's Kitchen
What do foodies do in Spring?
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Chinese Food, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie Travel, Foodie blogs, Foodie gadgets, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, French food, Fruit & Veg, Grow your own, Kitchenwares
There are very vague signs of Spring: mornings are lighter, if I slink off sharpish it’s still light when I leave work, and there are some small green shoots in the garden. And in the kitchen all sorts of things change for me. I know that it’s Spring when I start reaching for Bill Granger [...]
Tags:allotments·Bill Granger·Chinese New Year·Cookbooks·French food·Grow your own·pancakes·Pierre Herme·Seeds of Italy·Shrove Tuesday·Spring·vegetable growing
The Friday Five – Foraging & Feasting with Sarah Fay of Essex Gourmet
January 8th, 2010 · No Comments · British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie blogs, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Friday Five, Meat treats
Ah, remember the balmy days of early December? How warm we all were? How soft the ground was? There was I thinking how lovely to run Sarah Fay’s list the first week in January, when we’d all be ready for a good long walk in the countryside. How wrong could I be? But in preparation [...]
Tags:Cookbooks·Essex·Foodie gifts·foraging·Game·home winemaking·Ingredients·Mark Hix·mushrooms·seasonal food·The Wild Food Year Book·wild food
Not yet in two places at once!
November 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie blogs, Uncategorized
No post from me on here today (although Twitter followers will find photographic evidence of Dr T’s black eye in my tweets!) as I am returning a favour. A few weeks ago, English Mum gave us her 5 favourite old farts, or the cookbooks by them, and today I am starting her Christmas countdown with [...]
The Friday Five – a guest star and her old farts
October 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie blogs, Foodie gifts, Friday Five
Depending on how you arrived at reading these pages, you may or may not know that I’m a big Twitter fan. Actually, Dr T says I have been wittering for years so it was a natural step. Anyway, one of the things I love about it is the great people I have met, and I’m [...]
Tags:British favourites·Cookbooks·Elizabeth David·English Food·English Mum·Floyd on Italy·Foodie gifts·Good Housekeeping·Italian food·Jane Grigson·Keith Floyd·Mrs Beeton·twitter
The Saturday Session – 101 ways with a courgette
August 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Baking, Cookbooks, Foodie blogs, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Fruit & Veg, Healthy eating, Ingredients, Preserving, Recipes, Saturday Session
Well, not quite, but tonight’s dinner challenge is a different use of courgettes with every course because, like many of you who might grow your own, there’s a courgette glut still on. I have to admit to not being the biggest fan of the courgette, but I’m coming around. I think it’s too many years [...]
Tags:Baking·Cookbooks·courgette cake·courgettes·Gastrokid·Grow your own·home baking·How to be a Domestic Goddess·Ingredients·Lime·Nigella Lawson
The Saturday Session – cooking Indian food at home
August 1st, 2009 · No Comments · British favourites, Food Writing, Foodie blogs, Foodie things to do, Indian Food, Recipes, Saturday Session
It’s hard to eat badly in France. Except when it comes to things like Chinese and particularly Indian food. So we came back with a huge craving for a good curry, and Dr T has been busy in the kitchen ever since! Which made the choice for this week’s Saturday Session easy! I would point [...]
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The spirit of Cognac
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Foodie Travel, Foodie blogs, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Places to eat, Recipes, Spirits
Before you read this, you might want to mix yourself a drink: Cognac Summit Put a piece of lime zest and four thin strips of fresh ginger into a glass. Pour in 2cl of Cognac VSOP. Press lightly 2 to 3 times with the aid of a drumstick (I think my translation may leave something [...]
The Saturday Session – pack a picnic
July 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Baking, British favourites, Foodie blogs, Picnics, Recipes, Saturday Session
We’ll be on our way through France when this is published, having already completed a fairly long drive down to Portsmouth to catch the ferry. Which means either running the gauntlet of British service stations, not to mention needing a second mortgage, or taking your own. Guess which we went for for the first half [...]
