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Dearest blog,
You are officially 2 years old today. That’s 731 days (as we are in the midst of a leap year). That’s quite a milestone and we must celebrate, since I must rather shamefully admit that I don’t think we celebrated or even acknowledged your first birthday. So first of all…
HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY!
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When I was thinking about how to present this post I realised that I was likely to come across as rather fickle. Or as I prefer to think about it, “taking a balanced view”. Seeing both sides of the issue. Yes, both of those sound much better than “fickle”. More mature & grown up (although [...]
The word “best” can be defined as follows: of the highest quality, excellence or standing. That’s saying something, isn’t it? Taking this definition into account, calling my post (and the subject thereof) The Best Chocolate Cupcakes Ever would seem to be quite a bold statement. After all, there are zillions of “best ever” recipes, cookbooks, columns [...]
I must say I’m developing a bit of a love/hate relationship with these Daring Bakers’ Challenges. Every month since I’ve joined the Daring Bakers the process has gone something like this:
Excitedly open and read the challenge on the first of the month Either a) love or b) hate it on first sight Promptly avoid [...]
We all make mistakes in the kitchen, or at least I like to think we do. I certainly do. I’m not talking about deliberately making a change to a recipe or doing some random experimenting. I’m talking about misreading an amount or an ingredient in a recipe, or over/undercooking something, or trying to do too [...]
First off today I want to tell you about this great “allotment meal” we had the other night. Artichokes, beets, and lamb & mint burgers to make up the protein component. Ok, we don’t raise sheep on our allotment (that’s not allowed although apparently there was once a guy who tried keeping a goat there), but the veg [...]
I’m going to start off today by saying how cool it was to meet a bunch of fellow food bloggers this past Sunday in London. The Food Bloggers Connect event was held in London from 4-6 June. I was only able to attend on the Sunday, but it was well worth going even for the [...]
I’ve got brownies on the brain. At work we make a lot of brownies, and this week we’ve gone into a bit of brownie overdrive. There could be worse things I suppose – I’d much rather make hundreds of brownies than hundreds of tuna mayonnaise sandwiches, for example (but that may be because I can’t [...]
Yesterday I had a day at home consolidating menus and trawling cookbooks for new ideas. I also had a bit of a play with some sweet treats. I made some nice orange and almond biscuits – crisp little bites laced with homemade candied orange peel that are just perfect with a cup of tea. I’m [...]
I have just make a cake filling that is to die for. I’m making a hazelnut torte for a friend’s birthday next week, but thought a prototype would be useful (and also give me a dessert to take tomorrow night when we have dinner with friends)! Anyway, the cake is a flourless hazelnut cake. The [...]
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