I recently discovered Farmdrop, an online farmers market, and as part of my first order I bought some beautiful beetroot. I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with it until one Sunday afternoon I was craving chocolate brownies so I started looking out the ingredients I needed…
As you may of may not know, it is still National Chocolate Week…what a wonderful name for a ‘week’. What could be better than a chocolate week? Anyway…this wondrous ‘week’ gave me a marvellous excuse to try out some chocolate recipes I’ve had my eye on. One recipe I was desperate to…
Following the previous brownie recipe, I decided to try a different one, this time adding cocoa powder in the hope they would be a bit more gooey. It worked! Ingredients 250g (9oz) unsalted butter, softened 200g (7oz) dark chocolate (over 70% cocoa content) 50g (2oz) cocoa powder, sifted 75g (3oz)…
When I took my first trip to New York, indeed my first trip to the States last year, I discovered Reece’s peanut butter cups and peanut butter m&ms. Amazing! In the UK, the nuts most commonly found in our chocolate bars are hazelnuts and I thought that was pretty standard…
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been very lazy in terms of cooking. For some reason I’ve been feeling really tired and lethargic and not in the mood to spend time cooking or baking and instead I’ve been relying on take aways or fast food (probably why I’m feeling…
