I love a brief. A friend was coming to visit the other day and requested some baked goods. When asked what he would prefer, he said “I like chocolate and butter.” Well, I know a few recipes that involve those! However, … Continue reading
Flicking through various possible recipes, I kept coming back to bakes that involved choux pastry. I know that choux is famously difficult to get right. Challenge accepted! I decided to attempt profiteroles. The fact that I don’t really like profiteroles … Continue reading
A friend suggested the other day that I should do some more cooking with turmeric, given its status as one of THE super-foods – excellent for fighting cancer and generally boosting, well, everything! Great idea, I thought, and decided to … Continue reading
Wonderful progress – we decided that I was feeling well enough to brave the 3 hour car journey down to my boyfriend’s mum’s house in Dorset. It also coincided with Mother’s Day, so OBVIOUSLY I needed to bake something to … Continue reading
After a string of sweet recipes I decided it was time to turn my hand back to savoury. Not wanting to step too far out of my comfort zone though, I thought that since my muffins had worked well, perhaps … Continue reading
On Tuesday morning I had to go into the Royal Marsden for an appointment with a clinical oncologist, so my boyfriend suggested I should bake something to take in for the nurses on Ellis Ward who looked after me after … Continue reading
This bake was an adventure before I even turned on the oven. Having walked all the way to the supermarket and back for the muffin ingredients, I thought I could do it again. This time I went on my own. … Continue reading
Breaking (baking?) news! The banana bread (or banana brick as it has affectionately become known) worked! Not in the traditional sense of course (you saw the photo…). But in terms of one of my aims for writing the blog (excess … Continue reading
Back to cake baking, and after the soda bread success what could go wrong?! I had some bananas that were heading towards the wrong side of ripe, so I thought a banana bread would be a good idea. BBC GoodFood have … Continue reading
After the triumph (!) of my lime drizzle cake, I decided that it would be good to try something savoury. Making normal bread is completely out of the question at the moment – unless my boyfriend did ALL the kneading … Continue reading
