My cupcakes may look a little like Christmas with the frosted redcurrants but I love redcurrants coated in sugar, the combination of sweet and tart is amazing, second only to dipping a stick of rhubarb into a bag of sugar. I’ve got three redcurrant bushes in my fruit garden and they reward me with lots…
I didn’t buy into the expensive pink rhubarb at the beginning of the season, we’ve got a perfectly good rhubarb patch at the end of the garden and if you pick the stalks that are streaked with pink and resist peeling them you’ll end up with some pink fruit juices. Whilst I lingered over the…
Bread making in the Thermomix is so easy and homemade bread is one of my life’s pleasures. I’m never going to knead and pummel bread dough by hand it’s just too hard work and I like to let one of my kitchen gadgets do all the hard work. I made these bread rolls with fresh…
I’ve never made so much bread since owning my Thermomix. It takes only a few minutes to make the most amazing bread dough. I don’t think I’ve bought bread for many a year, this isn’t entirely due to my newest kitchen gadget because previously I used my bread maker to make complete loaves of bread…
I’ve been away on holiday to the wonderful island of Madeira, we had amazing food at our hotel and I especially loved the vast choice of desserts but now it’s back to every day home cooking and salad, salad and more salad! I made these bread rolls before I went away on holiday. I used…
This is a soup recipe that I adapt, and mostly cook in a large pan, but now the electric pressure cooker has made an appearance in my kitchen, the very least it can do is to somehow pay for it’s keep. I store it away in a cupboard – the pressure cooker that is –…
I’ve eaten more chocolate this year because the winter went on and on, I’m not a chocolate snob, but a bar of Lindt Excellence Strawberry Intense Dark Chocolate is hard to beat. The chocolate has pieces of freeze dried strawberries running through, it smells of summer and reminds me of strawberries dipped in chocolate. For…
I’m in bread making mode at the moment and for me it doesn’t matter a jot whether the dough is made in my breadmaker or in the food mixer, there’s one thing for sure it won’t be me kneading the dough for 10 minutes my arms just aren’t strong enough! I bought an artisan malted…
I bought the raspberries on the spur of the moment, it was a grey day and they looked bright and beautiful, I did wonder if it might be an expensive purchase I’d later regret. My head said don’t buy them, my heart said I really want those raspberries. Well was I in for a nice…
I’ve never had anything other than success making dough in the breadmaker and find most recipes work out absolutely fine, I just keep an eye out to see if the dough needs more water adding. If you’ve not used your breadmaker for a while, I guarantee this is a recipe you will make time and…
