having recently moved to Glasgow, i have been spending a lot of my time eating my way around the city, discovering the food scene here. one name that kept creeping up in conversations was bakery47. everyone i met asked me if i’d been yet, so a couple of weekends ago, my friend and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I saw this recipe whilst flicking through the December issue of Delicious Magazine a couple of weeks ago and decided to make it for my party last week. I had so much food prepared for the party I didn’t actually think this would get eaten so I left it whole…
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…
