As its the Easter weekend, and I’m back home visiting my family in Scotland, I wanted to make something special to eat on Easter Sunday, something to round off our Sunday roast. All of last week I was trying to think of what to make, then my trusted BBC Good Food weekly…
It’s absolutely freezing outside. And when the weather is like this, I need to cheer myself up a bit. Keen for an injection of sunshine, I decided to make some lemon curd. I adore lemon curd, having always had it on toast for breakfast as a child. There is a…
This recipe for raspberry rocky road is one of my favourites. It also seems to be a favourite of most of my friends and family, most notably my sister in law, Sami. When she was pregnant with my nephew last year she would request it ‘for the baby’ and I…
Cranachan is a traditional Scottish dessert, made from a mixture of whipped cream, whisky, honey (preferably heather honey), and fresh raspberries with toasted oatmeal. This deliciously simple dessert is a perfect way to end a Burns Supper. Ingredients: 40g medium or coarse oatmeal 200g raspberries 400ml double cream 2 tbsp…
It’s cold outside, very cold. In fact its snowing around most of the UK at the moment. When the weather is like this, I just want to eat warm, comforting food. I saw someone making a Bakewell Tart on the Food Network a few weeks ago and I haven’t been…
The Food Network is played in my flat pretty much constantly and over the Christmas period Nigella seemed to be on so much, it almost felt like she spent Christmas with us! I know most of her recipes by heart now but one that popped up recently that I hadn’t…
I was looking to make a cheesecake for a party I was throwing recently. Everything else I was making seemed to have a chocolate theme so I wanted something that the non-chocoholics could enjoy. I get regular emails from one of my favourite food websites, Food & Wine and last week…
Last month I was flicking through Delicious Magazine and this recipe for Salted Caramel Yule log, designed by Gemma Gannon, founder of Band Of Bakers, jumped out at me. I’m very glad I tried it out, it was incredible. It requires a bit of effort but its worth it. Oh and a…
My friend Jordan has been on and on at me for weeks to make him madeleines. When he lived in Paris he used to buy madeleines every day. Seeing as he was clearly going to compare my madeleines to those made my a Parisian pastry chef, I was understandably nervous,…
Its cold outside…really cold. And when it gets cold, I want to eat lovely comforting food to cheer myself up a bit. So the other day, after a rather freezing walk with the dog, I fancied making a cake. I went through my folder of recipes that I pull out…
I was reading the Observer Food Monthly on the tube home the other day and was pouring over the recipes from Nigel Slater’s new book The Kitchen Diaries II when I saw this recipe for blackberry & hazelnut friands. They looked beautiful and running over the ingredients I realised that…
My friend Louise has a beautiful apple tree in her garden and brought a load of its apples into work for me to bake with. These seasonal apples are perfect for pies and crumbles. I made a blackberry and apple crumble with them last week and this week I decided…
