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“A cook’s tour: Baking Blind goes global” – the story of my international prize-winning cooking tour across six continents (with over 100 authentic world recipes plus links to over 50 cooking demonstration video) plus surviving near-death.  Available on Amazon and…

Bee Myth

It was one of the worst bits of bee nonsense that I’ve ever heard: that honey isn’t a good thing to buy/eat because commercial bee farmers clip their bees’ wings. A commercial hive contains around 70,000 bees. All have wings…

Christmas Gift

For you and anyone you know: a seasonal recipe booklet with links to demos: Check out unseen videos on my new website: www.pennymelvillebrown.com It all celebrates the Covid cookbook blogs plus the on-line demonstrations for visually impaired people that…

Missed the boat

  Just when “substantial meals” are no longer required, I’ve got around to making Scotch eggs. The hand fracture is doing well and I’m starting on the exercises to re-build strength – how am I going to grapple ingredients to…

Back to basics

I’ve been doing a series of on-line live bake-ins exclusively for visually impaired people – and even getting bakers taking part from different parts of the world. The goal is to make enough different bakes to create a celebration tea…

Here’s one I made earlier.

My hand injury is still recovering so the beekeeping sous chef has been responsible for conjuring up outstanding flapjacks for friends who have dropped in for tea since we could meeting the garden.  Even though most of us have done…

Over-confident

No cooking this time: last week’s injury has turned into this week’s spiral fracture of the fifth metacarpal in my right hand which is now encased in a splint for the next month. It has massive impact: can’t use my…

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