A couple of weekends ago, I had the pleasure of spending a wonderful afternoon learning how to make sushi. I’ve dabbled in a bit of sushi making at home with friends, but it has never turned out particularly well. So when I got the opportunity to attend Reiko Hashimoto‘s sushi…
On Friday night, I had the pleasure of attending Bread Ahead‘s mince pie masterclass, courtesy of my friend Felicity. Bread Ahead is a bakery and school set up by Matt Jones (founder of Flour Power), situated in the heart of Borough Market, London. Together with co-owner Justin Gellatly (former Head Baker at St…
I love bread but I’ve never been entirely successful in baking it myself. I’ve been blaming it on my crap oven but I can’t hide behind that excuse forever. So instead, I tend to seek out good bakeries and buy my bread from there. One of my favourites is E5…
Last week I was invited by the lovely people at Nudge PR to attend a jam making masterclass at their offices in Soho, taken by preserve-expert, Vivien Lloyd. This is the recipe for Raspberry and Apple Jam that she made… Makes about 2.25kg(5lb) Ingredients 1kg (2lb) raspberries (Vivien made this with Autumn Bliss…
PASTRY CLASS AT COOKERY SCHOOL, LONDON If you read my blog regularly, you will know that many a tear has been cried into my shortcrust pastry tarts in the past. I just can’t seem to master the shortcrust. It is my nemesis! And my mum can’t understand why I can’t…
While I was in Mallorca last Summer, I was eating at one of my favourite restaurants, Los Zarzales in Puerto Pollença, when my friend noticed that they had started holding Spanish cookery classes in their courtyard. Their lovely head chef Cristian Escolar came over to speak to us about it…
