This Is Not My Home

Desserts! Always an odd episode in my mind, as I'm never quite sure what constitutes a dessert, nor why a biscuit or a cake or a sweet b...

Foraging for food is one of my favourite things. First - the thrill of the chase, to track down some wild, but tasty, foodstuff. Then the s...

Bread week. The week that your baking future depends on microbes and elbow grease. The week that perfectly sane people begin re...

One of the good things about Twitter is occasionally you will stumble across something new and interesting. Recently I stumbled across Healt...

Week two of season 5 of The Great British Bake-Off brings florentines.   I must admit, here, that I actually had a practice run yester...

Yes, yes, I know this is late. However, I have no television, so an arrangement has been made - I will watch the bake off on catch-up at som...

Move along please, nothing to see here. Certainly not a rich, chocolately cake where the butter was replaced by shredded courgette. ...

I've been growing garlic for a few years now. I first grew it in a pot on a balcony in the East End of London! It is easy to grow and pr...

I don't normally do this, so please bear with me. This is a story about my hunt for suncream. It begins several years ago, when, as pa...

My apologies dedicated readers (all two of you,) but the squirrels and BT conspired to prevent my communications. I am now returned to the b...

made some tarts, all on a summer's day. Apologies for the hiatus in blogging, I had a series of rather gruelling and nasty exam...

Crispy crust, chewy sourdough middle, delicious! (Though I say so myself). Ingredients: 7g salt 125g strong white bread flour 250g ...

make guava sorbet! I inherited an old tin of guava halves. Feeling the need for sweet, fruity goodness, my mind turned to sorbet. Unfortun...

A couple of weeks ago, I went to stay with Lady Pink and Lord Fisherman. Since I was brought up never to arrive empty handed, I thought a ho...