I wrote a post before about cookbooks from different characters, like Snoopy and Harry Potter, and I’ve come across a few more, but with more of a film and TV theme, that I thought were fun, and would be conversation starters with anyone browsing your cookbook shelves. They might even have some pretty decent recipes [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Kitsch cooking'
The Friday Five – Not taking cookbooks too seriously
November 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, Breakfast, British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Just for fun, Kitsch cooking
Tags:Bewitched·It's a Wonderful Life·Pulp Fiction·Star Wars·Twilight
The gifts I’ve been waiting to write about
September 25th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Baking, Breakfast, British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Kitchenwares, Kitsch cooking, Places to shop online
Many of you will know that in my day job I work for Boots, in something not even related to food (I look after the best interest of two fantastic beauty brands in our shops, this one and this one). But my desk until very recently was next to the Gift Food team. Which meant [...]
Tags:Boots·home baking·Joules
Encyclopedic knowledge of the best cookies of every description
September 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Baking, Cookbooks, Cooking with Kids, Foodie gadgets, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Kitchenwares, Kitsch cooking, Places to shop online, Sweet treats
Let me just say this first: I love this book! I was sent The Cookiepedia as a review copy, and I love it. I even cope with the fact it doesn’t tell you a helpful conversion for a stick of butter, other than cups or tablespoons, but other than that it’s a delight. I mean, [...]
Tags:baking with kids·cookie cutters·home baking·The Cookiepedia
The Friday Five – Bring on the Ice Cream
June 17th, 2011 · No Comments · British favourites, Dairy, Eating with kids, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Friday Five, Italian food, Kitsch cooking, Sweet treats
Surely summer is going to start properly some time soon? Been thinking about ice cream in all its forms, and wondering when it’s really going to be warm enough to want to tuck into some. So maybe whilst it’s not quite warm enough it’s a good time to be making up plenty of batches to [...]
The Friday Five – PWD? Bring on the cake!
May 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Kitsch cooking
It’s hard to believe that it’s just a week since lots of people were glued to the TV, the bunting was flying and there was a wedding going on. And now we’ve all had to go back to work, and Post Wedding Depression has set in, not even offset by all the commemorative issue newspapers. [...]
Getting ready for a street party
March 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Baking, British favourites, Cooking with Kids, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Just for fun, Kitsch cooking, Places to shop online, Tableware
My mum, bless her, is really excited about the Royal wedding, and is planning a party. Lucky for us, we’ll be there too, as this party will be around the pool in the Cypriot sunshine, so I’m busy looking for things I can take to add a little patriotic colour to the food proceedings. Here’s [...]
Shaping up the dessert course
February 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Chocolate, Foodie gadgets, Foodie gifts, Kitchenwares, Kitsch cooking, Places to shop online, Sweet treats
It’s that time of year when there’s a whole load of new stuff to look at over at Lakeland. Far too much to choose from, and always a source of unexpected gifts for the food lover, whether they cook themselves or not. So here’s my first choice, for something a little different for the food [...]
Precision Baking Time!
February 22nd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Baking, British favourites, Foodie gifts, Kitchenwares, Kitsch cooking
I tweeted about this the other day, when I was catching up on the Hairy Bikers Mums Know Best. I’ve written about how much I have a soft spot for them before, and watching them bake continues to confirm why. Especially when they teach me new things. Like the fact that there is a [...]
Tags:Afternoon tea·Baking·Battenburg cake·British favourites·home baking
Creative ways for the cookie to crumble
January 6th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Baking, Cooking with Kids, Foodie gifts, Kitsch cooking, Offers & Discount Codes, Places to shop online
I had a slight obsession with some Ninja cookie cutters over the Christmas period and, having resisted buying those, ended up with a big snowflake cutter in the John Lewis sale. And then the Cox & Cox sale leaflet arrived and, oh my, the temptation is high! Talk about spoiled for choice! In their sale [...]
Tags:cookie cutters
The Friday Five – One of the best bits about Christmas
November 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Baking, British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Kitsch cooking, Make your own
I love the part of Christmas where I get together all the recipe books and magazines, and set about creating the menus for the various meals and gatherings. Of course you don’t need too many Christmas cookbooks but then there are so many new temptations this year…here’s five to consider: * The Hairy Bikers’ 12 [...]
