food

I don’t like Mondays. My days are not usually hugely productive at work coz it’s like my brain has this huge shock every week when it realises the weekend is over. And not much usually going on on a Monday evening. So I did what I usually do when I am bored and fed up….

I have had two baking disasters this week. Ok, “disaster” is perhaps a tad over the top. But they were neither great successes. The first was a nectarine sponge pudding. I caramalised the nectarines first. And actually the lack of success here wa not really my fault. I put it in the oven to cook…

So there’s been this list going round the food blog world called the Omnivores 100. Well much more interestingly (in my opinion) I discovered via Beth that Helen has created a the British One Hundred, so in honour of all the wonderful food of my home which so often gets a terrible press (not least…

I know you were waiting for these. They got eaten very quickly. I was really pleased with them because my most regular muffins are apple spice muffins which are delicious and definitely the most requested until now but not really very summery which these definitely were. And that timed perfectly with summer FINALLY coming to…

I planned to make this recipe months ago. When I stayed with Hannah in Bonn waaaaay back before Christmas I even bought a jar of organic 100% fig spread from the market. But then I never got round to making them. Until Tuesday! Actually though, my “Grown Up Fig Cookies” do not look quite as…