Its almost Christmas, my favourite time of the year. Its the only time you are actively encouraged to eat as much as you possibly can, all rules go out the window. Not that I abide by many for the rest of the year, its just nice that everyone else joins…
Every Christmas I made a chocolate log. Last year I made Gemma Gannon‘s Salted Caramel Yule Log which was incredible, but takes a bit of time. This year I didn’t have time on my side so I went for an old favourite…Mary Berry’s Chocolate Roulade. It is made without flour or…
This is just a quick idea of something cute and Christmassy to make for Christmas parties or get-togethers. I had some friends coming round to mine last weekend and as always at Christmas, I had a pandoro in my kitchen. If you don’t know what a pandoro is, its an…
Its officially the festive party season, my favourite time of the year. It is always handy to have some ‘party food’ to hand in case people pop by which is why I tend to spend the first weekend of December in my kitchen whipping up as many party bites as…
I am a huge fan of Ina Garten. HUGE. I love her. At times I almost feel like she’s my flatmate, she’s on my TV so much! I have written about my love of her before so I wont drone on about her again. It was just to say that I…
This is just a quickie. Recently I’ve been making a lot of chorizo sausage rolls and every time I’ve posted pics on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, I get loads of messages from people asking me how to make them. They’re so ridiculously quick and easy, its dangerous. I can’t seem…
For the base 150g Digestive biscuits or Graham Crackers 75g butter, melted 1 tbsp caster sugar For the filling 375g cream cheese, at room temperature 112g caster sugar 2 medium eggs 150ml double/heavy cream 30ml lemon juice Splash of vanilla extract Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan)/350°F and line a…
I love salmon, in all forms, so when I had a party recently I decided to serve smoked salmon pate on crostini as a canapé. It is so easy to make it almost seems ridiculous that you can buy it ready made! Ingredients 255g/9oz smoked salmon (you can use trimmings)…
When I have people over for dinner I tend to make a pavlova. It’s easy and everyone loves it. Even friends who profess not to like pavlova end up loving it. I recently had a dinner party and I made a chocolate cake and a pavlova for pudding. One of…
As you can see from my last post, I made a few batches of mini quiche lorraine’s for a party. While I was making them, I realised I had a vegetarian coming over so I decided to make a couple of batches of vegetarian quiches. I had onions already softening…
If you’re having a party, I always find that anything to do with pastry is a sure fire hit! You just can’t go wrong with pastry, especially on a cold Winter’s night. For a recent party I made lots of sausage rolls and mini quiches and they were all very…
One of the best and easiest things to make are sausage rolls. So many people buy them from the supermarket to serve as finger food for parties but I don’t think people realise how easy it is to make them. And they taste out of this world! Saying that, I…
