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Baking and Blogging in Ascot

• Courgette Linguine – or how to use up this season’s vegetables

  By lovinghomemade on September 5, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  I do my best to grow vegetables every summer and last year I had so many courgettes I hardly knew what to do with them. This year I didn’t manage to plant as many vegetables and those that I did… Read More ›

• Homemade Blackberry and Apple Crumble – Autumn is on its way

  By lovinghomemade on September 3, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  I belong to a gym where I tend to do yoga and pilates classes and laze around in the pool, jacuzzi and steam room. I rarely actually go to the gym itself because if I go running I would rather be… Read More ›

• Butterfly Birthday Cakes

  By lovinghomemade on September 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  I always have a book on the go; sometimes it’s “proper” literature and sometimes it’s good old-fashioned Chick lit. My all time favourite Chick lit heroine has to be Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) of the Shopaholic series and I was… Read More ›

• Birthday Present Cake

  By lovinghomemade on September 1, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Today I will be mostly mopping the kitchen floor, in an attempt to rid it of the layers of icing sugar that have built up over the last couple of days. I have been making birthday cakes – a 40th,… Read More ›

• Lemon Cake Bars

  By lovinghomemade on August 28, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Too many cakes, too little time. I needed something to take to a friend’s house for an informal morning meeting and my first thought is always chocolate cake. I thought that might be a bit heavy for first thing on a summery… Read More ›

• Homemade Apricot Jam

  By lovinghomemade on August 27, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Apricot jam has to be my all time favourite jam and one of the added bonuses of a summer holiday in France by car is that you can buy fruit by the crate in the supermarkets and bring it home to make… Read More ›

• Granary and Walnut Bread

  By lovinghomemade on August 26, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  I have mentioned bread baking in a previous post and we are now back from our week in France spent eating delicious baguette and artisan breads. While you can’t beat baguette made in France, I am excited about being able to… Read More ›

• Homemade crêpes at Keranmeriet

  By lovinghomemade on August 24, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  We are staying, as we do every year, in Brittany in one of the gîtes built and run by some friends who moved here nearly ten years ago. The place is a rural retreat; 100 acres set in beautiful Breton… Read More ›

• Blackberry picking – fun and free!

  By lovinghomemade on August 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I love this time of year and start to get completely obsessed by what I can find in the hedgerows. Blackberries are always the first thing that get me all excited about the change of season. I start to look… Read More ›

• Eton Mess

  By lovinghomemade on August 14, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  I made a Key Lime Pie to take to a party the other day – that will have to wait for the next time I make it as I don’t have a good photo, mainly due to forgetting to save… Read More ›