There’s a new blogging challenge in town. Devised by Karen from Lavender and Lovage and Fiona from The Face of New World Appliances, it’s called “The Best of British” and is aimed at championing local produce and dishes from regional areas within the UK. Each month for the next 6 months, a county or region … Continue reading »
One of my favourite dishes as a child was my mum’s ‘African Spiced Lamb Bake,’ a curried mince dish full of dried fruit and topped with a savoury egg custard. Years later, I realised that the dish that I loved so much as a child was actually an anglicised version of one of South Africa’s … Continue reading »
The theme for this month’s Random Recipe Challenge is ‘first and last,’ the premise being (and I quote Dom from Belleau Kitchen here) that when it comes to cookbooks, “like the filling of a sandwich, the juiciest recipes are perhaps in the middle of the book” and that the first and last recipes are often … Continue reading »
Yesterday there was an article on the Guardian website that concluded that it was impossible to make a decent pizza at home (the humble domestic oven doesn’t get hot enough apparently). Au contraire, Mr Guardian journalist. Since I have learnt the art of making excellent pizza bases at home, I have never since bought a … Continue reading »
Next up in my series of favourite comfort food dishes is this tomato and mozzarella risotto. Risotto is one of the first dishes I remember buying the ingredients for and cooking myself from scratch. I must have been in my mid-teens and it was the first time I had tried proper risotto rice and fresh parmesan … Continue reading »
This chocolate, coffee and amaretto tart is my entry into May’s “We Should Cocoa” challenge which this month is co-hosted by Choclette of Chocolate Log Blog and Laura from How to Cook Good Food. The theme for this month is chocolate and almonds so I figured that this tart (which I adapted from a recipe on … Continue reading »
AlphaBakes is a monthly blogging challenge co-hosted by Ros from “The More Than Occasional Baker” and Caroline from “Caroline Makes.” Each month, a letter of the alphabet is chosen at random and bloggers have to bake a dish that starts with (or uses an ingredient that starts with) that random letter. This month AlphaBakes is … Continue reading »
For this week’s Short and Tweet challenge, @EvidenceMatters selected a multitude of magnificent muffin recipes from Dan Lepard’s “Short and Sweet” for us to bake. Governed by the contents of my fruit bowl, I decided to plump for Dan’s ‘Banana bran muffins’ and his rather fresh and fruity looking ‘Clementine and oat muffins.’ Both recipes … Continue reading »
