I adore the smell of fresh lemons. I am generally captivated by lemon trees, and always wanted my own one, but living in the UK without a conservatory or a very large greenhouse makes that fairly improbable. In these cookies I used a lemon olive oil, plus extra zest, to get that zing that I …
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Lemon Semolina Cake
Originally this was a honey and lemon semolina cake, where it got drenched in a syrup after cooking. It was an absolutely gorgeous cake, I made it for my 40th, but my tastes don’t run as much to sweet nearly a decade on so I decided on a variation.It’s my last Cake Club at work …
Marley’s Cake
A few weeks ago we had a baking competition at work. They called it The Great Charity Bake Off, and it was in aid of Action for Kids.A fun and yet nerve wracking time was had by all, and I think the sales of sugar, flour, carrots (4 carrot cakes in all) and vanilla tripled …
Sleepy Saturday afternoon baking
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 …
Chicken and Spinach with an egg and lemon sauce
There is a Greek soup called avgolemono. It is pure comfort food to any Greek, speaking to us of the days when we lived at home and Mum fed us soup when we weren’t well. Or when we had a broken heart. Or just because we loved it so. I remember being on holiday with …
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Lemon and olive oil cakes
There are days when you just want cake. Saturday was just such a day, and it seemed that every TV show did its very best to mention cake, or have cakes in it. It was too hot to actually make any, but oh boy did I read about baking. Nigella’s Chocolate Hall of Fame in …
Plain houmous using dried chick peas
I bought a bag of dried chick peas ages ago, meaning to use them for something, and promptly forgot about them once I’d put them in the cupboard. That happens a lot in my house. Out of sight, out of mind and all that. I found them yesterday, so decided to actually remember to soak …
Soft Cows’ Milk Cheese
I want to make cottage cheese. It never seems to happen though, but I keep trying. The shop bought stuff used to be lovely but these days, to me, it always tastes off, no matter what they put into it. It can’t be that hard, but I never seem to manage it. Along the way, …
Moro inspired pork belly.
I blame my friend Karen. She sent me the link in the first place, and it was that link that had me thinking about pork belly so much that I couldn't get it out of my head. You ever have those times when you read a recipe, or hear about a dish, and you know …
Honey and Lemon Semolina Cake
Another flourless cake, though NOT gluten free as semolina is made from durum wheat. This is a bloody lovely cake. 125g softened butter1/2 cup sugar1 1/2 tbs finely grated orange or lemon rind*2 eggs2 tbs brandy (I used rum as that's what I had)1 cup fine semolina1 cup ground almonds1 tsp baking powerTopping2 packs shelled …
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