tarts

It’s been a while since I’ve baked anything more adventurous than muffins (although I did make some lovely orange chocolate muffins last weekend). I’ve been churning out the bread with the help of my lovely 10 euro bread machine but no exciting new sweet things. Our first anniversary seemed like a good occasion to try…

bread making

One of my goals on my list of 26 things to do before I am 27 was to get good at baking bread from scratch. I decided though that the pre-requisite for this goal needed to be figuring out how to actually get my bread maker to work. I bought it second hand about 18…

Lemon Meringue Pie

Despite the hot hot weather I’ve still been braving the kitchen for some baking. Hot weather requires food that is refreshing and what is more refreshing than lemon? My mum makes LMP quite often at home. I made this for the first time a few months ago when we had friends round for dinner. I…

#20 – Make ice cream!

I made ice cream! There were some cherries in the fridge beginning to look sorry for themselves, and a carton of cream just waiting to be used. And my parents-in-law arrived last night, so what better reason? We already ate half of it (somewhat soft ice ish for us being impatient) but I will try…

shepherd’s pie with a twist…

We had this for dinner last night. Yes, I know it’s not meatless but we’ve been quite well behaved recently and I really wanted to make this! That’s not my picture though, it’s the one from the BBC Good Food website. Because it was so yummy and we were so hungry that it literally got…