The blogosphere is on overload with Cadbury Creme Eggs recipes, but alas I’m not a fan of the Creme Egg. The photographs and recipes I’ve seen though are enough to make me wish I was a Creme Egg fan. I’ve used my favourite chocolate filled eggs because I’m happy that I can decorate my cakes…
Bread makers are perfect for making bread dough – from adding a few ingredients to the pan, setting the menu and getting the finished dough out of the pan it took less than an hour. When the dough was ready I rolled it out to fit into a non-stick tray which I sprinkled with semolina…
Chocolate makes everything taste better and these little beauties have chocolate chips in the cake too. Banana and chocolate is a wonderful pairing and you can’t really go wrong. Somehow in my kitchen there are always a couple of black bananas left in the fruit bowl, you’ve got to bake these delicious cupcakes, you know…
I’m experimenting with the Thermomix TM5 and comparing it to my other kitchen gadgets, halving the quantities in a bread recipe was this weeks project. It’s certainly a great machine for mixing and kneading the dough but if you’re contemplating buying one please be aware that you can’t leave the machine unattended whilst it’s mixing…
A delicious bowl of comforting home made soup with a thick slab of bread and butter takes some beating. Leek and potato soup is quick and simple to make and any that isn’t eaten can be frozen in a strong freezer bag. I made mine in the Instant Pot (electric pressure cooker) and once the…
I love homemade focaccia and walnuts in bread always work well. The dough uses a mix of strong white bread flour, OO Italian pasta flour and mashed potato from a baked jacket potato, this produced a very light crumb. The baked focaccia is lovely dipped into extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Any leftover…
The perfect accompaniment with these cupcakes is a drink of hot chocolate topped with lots of squirty cream and overloaded with marshmallows. The topping on these cupcakes may look a bit skinny but it’s early into February and we’re still trying to eat less. On second thoughts, I think that may be stretching the truth….
Everywhere I look on the Internet it is telling me to love my leftovers. I started to feel a little guilty because I’m not sure that I do love my leftovers, in fact all they do is stare back at me and make me feel bad that I haven’t used everything up from Christmas. For…
I love a ‘bit of nostalgia’, and milk bread baked in a cylindrical ribbed tin brings back memories of my childhood and hopefully my other reader remembers this wonderful soft and tasty loaf of bread too! I can’t recall anything as fancy as sharing bread though. I made this last week to go with our…
Making soup from just a few ingredients is a very cost effective way to feed ourselves and our families during the winter months, although I am more than happy to eat soup all year round. I find a bowl of soup at lunchtime is filling and keeps me going until dinner. Another reason I like…
