Husband has to work today, which means he's been shut in his studio/computer room staring at the VPN screen, looking at servers.I decided that he (we) needed a nice afternoon pick me up, and I wanted to bake something that wasn't labour intensive. I have very fond memories of my Nan making Butterfly Cakes, and …
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Blood Orange, Almond and Pistachio Cake
I have finally succumbed to the blood orange fever that's been going around instagram and Twitter.I will now admit to never having actually eaten a blood orange, so after everyone was going on about them, I thought I should. Once I'd seen this recipe by Kellie at Food to Glow, then I really knew I …
Halloumi & Leek Bread Pudding
Bread pudding as I've always known it is a great big bowl of spiced, fruited and sugared bread, all smooshed and squished together with milk until it's one homogenous mass, and then baked until it becomes a slab of darkly sweet perfection. A brilliant and thrifty way to use up stale or old bread and …
My First Christmas Cake
Yes. I know. How can I have been alive for all of my considerable years and not made a Christmas Cake? To be honest, I'm not sure, but I hadn't. I have now, but let's just say it took me a long time to get around to it.I've made cakes for Christmas, yes. But not …
Persimmons Everywhere
My American friends have spoken about persimmons for as long as have known them. I'd always wondered how Mr Gube's Persimmon Pudding would taste - not really knowing what a persimmon was - but sadly I think the recipe died with him. I never did get around to finding out what they were until recently when …
Microwave Christmas Pudding
Yep! Microwave. I thought I'd lost this, but just dug it out again. :)We made this last year at my Mum's in Cyprus, and as we were on the watch for powercuts, it had to be fast. It turns out that this is really, really good. Light and tender on the 1st and 2nd days, …
Christmas: Kourabiedes, or Greek Butter Cookies
I have a cookbook. (Nobody is surprised at this.) I have 2 copies of the same cookbook, because the first one fell apart. My Mum used it to learn to cook Greek food for my Dad after they got married, then I found it, and started reading it. It had a cover, back then. One …
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Chocolate Chip Buckwheat Cookies
Ever since I read about triple chocolate buckwheat cookies in Simply Nigella, I knew I had to try baking some. It’s like an itch in my brain that won’t go away until I give in and buy the ingredients. I reread the recipe yesterday, and realised that the inspiration for Nigella’s recipe was from London …
Something to prep for Christmas
I know. I know, we haven’t even had Hallowe’en yet, but if I don’t write this down now I shall forget it, and it’s quite a useful thing to have in the cupboard. Plus today being the day of the mad scramble to change the clocks/remember what time to change the clocks/find out which clocks …
Low Carb ‘Cornbread’
I do hope that I don’t harp on about low carb stuff to people too much, it just happens to be the way I need to eat if I want to feel healthy, and for my body to stop hurting. Weight loss is a side effect. It’s a useful one, for sure, but that’s all …
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