Too tempting to make many!
I’ve been looking for something very simple, quick and easy to make to serve with desserts: to add texture, crunch and spice. These ginger biscuits fit the bill and a tray of 12 is more than enough sugary temptation…
Penny
More paving than Pavlova
Pavlova, meringue, Christmas pudding, bee hive, British Bee Keeping Association, BBKA disastrous day in the kitchen: meringue melt-down and pudding pot welded to pan. I was experimenting with the new food processor and its special beating blade. The goal was…
Solutions galore!
Huge thanks to everyone who responded to my “opening” dilemma. Your solutions worked and the key was to ensure that my wonderful assistant read the packaging. To be fair to him, the words “Peel to open” were quite small and…
Highly Dangerous Comestible
Highly dangerous comestible. To whom it may concern, I wish to raise a…
An alternative tart
Whoever named these fish as pollocks did them no favours! Yet this white sea fish is a good sustainable alternative when our favourite cod and haddock stocks are less plentiful. We bought online a super selection of fish from…
Omissions and improvisations
Clearing out the freezer and store cupboards brings surprises and challenges. This week, a pack of Spanish dried ham emerged blinking into the daylight from a Christmas past. I confess to using de-frosted bought shortcrust pastry to make the…
Cheer up weary fruit
If it’s getting towards the end of the week and the fruit bowl is looking a bit sorry for itself, here’s a super hot dessert. When shopping can take too long and some food is hard to get, it…
BOGOF
If your self-isolating hoard of UHT milk tastes awful in tea, here’s the answer: homemade yoghurt plus the vital ingredient for a simple bread. Two for the price of one. The yoghurt is blissfully simple: just heat half a litre…
Good simple food makes isolation more bearable
Being quarantined at home gives me more time to cook. I’ve been inspired to share this recipe by Orly, one of the semi-finalists for the 2020 Holman prize for blind ambition being run by San Francisco’s LightHouse organisation. It might…
Perfect timing: cooking for mind, body and soul
In 2017, my Baking Blind project won the inaugural international Holman prize for blind people with ambition. Now another blind cook has even better ideas and seeks your support for the 2020 competition for which she is already a…