Pumpkin Soup – Convenient Food, My Way

Apparently the most important market for the food industry is so-called convenience food. People want to come home to a home-made dinner, but without the inconvenience of having to cook it. However, convenience food does not necessarily have to come out of a tin, or a plastic pack: sometimes the packaging is completely biodegradable. Take a pumpkin:…

Bircher Müesli

Autumn has arrived in England – we know this because it’s suddenly sunny and warm outside, unlike in Summer, when it was rainy and miserable for most of the time. Autumn means shorter days, giant spider webs, yellowing leaves and, for me at last, a change in my daily breakfast routine. Whereas in the summer…

What would you feed me…Ginger? 

Originally posted on foodbod:
?? This week we are joined by a superstar blogger (and soon to be superstar TV cook – read about it on her blog!), the lovely Ginger?from?Ginger and Bread. Ginger’s is a fabulous blog, full of wonderful recipes and photographs, but also full of stories, culture and history, I’ve already learnt…

Cranachan – A Scottish Mess

Some of you might remember the cranachan-inspired cupcakes I made for  I made for the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival. They called for recipes for whisky-based cupcake recipes for a baking competition, a challenge I could hardly resist! Anyway, I was very excited to hear that my entry had been chosen, together with four others, to be baked during…