Perhaps one of the most beautiful preserves, these turnips are a pickled showstopper! I saw them on our trip to Edgware Road, where you can buy them ready-made in many of the little Middle Eastern shops, and where Petra and I enjoyed them as part of our Lebanese lunch. They work perfectly with other mezze,…
The last couple of days have been incredibly busy – planning for and going away for and recovering from a May bank holiday weekend has never been easy. This year, especially with a halfway promising weather forecast, we decided to go to the coast: a caravan on Hayling Island, overlooking the Isle of Wight and…
With St Patrick’s looming, I had been wondering what to do to mark the occasion. Potatoes? Stew? No – after Frugal Hausfrau’s inspired attempt at making her own Bailey’s Irish Cream, I knew I had to go down the truffles route. Since making boozy truffles the other day, I had been itching to give it…
This weekend was spent making truffles. And not just any kind, but a whole range of them. I had been dying to give truffles a try, despite countless failed attempts at making chocolate Easter eggs. But since I mastered macaroons, surely nothing could hold me back. Over the years I have figured out that attention to…
With only a week to go, time is running out for making gingerbread: the dough needs to rest over night and the finished biscuits, too, need some time to mellow. If you have been planning to make a gingerbread house, you better get going – we’ll be making ours at the weekend, in case you…
The oldest recipe for Linzer Torte dates from the 17th Century, making this perhaps the oldest known cake recipe in the world. Its ongoing success is no surprise: the dough is made primarily from either hazelnuts or almonds, subtly flavoured with cinnamon, and filled with red currant jam. ‘Ribisel ‘ as the red currants are…
Christmas time is not just a time for spending time with family and friends, first and foremost it is a time for frantically searching for presents. For your foodie friends and those with a sweet tooth, I make these little cakelets in jam jars: in the fridge, they last for a good 4 weeks (or…
I’m afraid that today’s Blogvent calendar is not as Christmassy as you might have hoped for, but December is not an easy time for my family, at least not for the adults, as all our birthdays bar one fall into this month. And Christmas, too. You will hopefully forgive me this rather uninspired idea of…
Who hasn’t got a jar full of cookie cutters in their cupboard? Those simple metal ones you had to buy because … well, because you really liked the shape of them? We have them, too. Dozens of Christmas-themed stars, snow flakes, Santas and gingerbread men, as well as slightly less Christmassy dinosaurs, aeroplanes and a…
Some of you might remember my Hello Kitty fest a couple of weeks ago, for today the recipient came to visit in order to make her own cookies. This time, however, there was not a Hello Kitty in sight, as I had purchased a cookie stamp of my own: ‘Naschkatze’ is what you call someone who…
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