You can never have too many apple cake recipes. Apple cakes are tasty, healthier and will use up some of your stash if you had a large harvest, or have been given a bagful by a friend. This cake is… Read More ›
gluten free baking
The Best Ever Vegan Cinnamon and Pecan Buns – for Veganuary and Beyond
January gets a bad press. More so this year in the UK when our hopes for seeing the back of the pandemic with the end of 2020 were destroyed with the government announcement of a new lockdown. Just a few… Read More ›
Quince and Almond Cake
I’ve given them away, steeped them in brandy, turned them into jelly, baked them and stewed them. This year’s quince harvest has been a bumper one and it seemed a shame to waste it. They perfumed the kitchen for weeks… Read More ›
All-in-One Blackberry Cake
Every year I’m surprised when blackberries are ripe in August. Blackberries should be an autumn fruit, designed for jam making and comforting crumbles. And yet this year I was picking them in burning sunshine, wondering how soon I could get… Read More ›
Healthy Flapjack Bites
It’s not always obvious knowing what is ‘healthy’ and what isn’t. Particularly as it can change quite significantly over time. Remember back when fat was bad and sugar was just sugar? Too much sugar would just rot your teeth and… Read More ›
Gluten-Free Double Chocolate Muffins
For anyone who follows a gluten-free diet, or just wants to reduce the amount of gluten in their diet there are so many options these days in the supermarkets for gluten-free treats. A lot of things that would naturally not… Read More ›
Rhubarb Friands – and The wedding
You may never have heard of Windsor before the Royal Wedding but even if you were trying to avoid the coverage it’s likely that you now know a lot about it. I live on the edge of Windsor Great Park… Read More ›
Chocolate and Hazelnut Torte
If your Instagram feed is anything like mine it will be full of beautiful, quite stylised images. Cakes, flowers, amazing handcrafted items. Ceramics, ‘flat lays’ and scenery. Each image more beautiful than the last. It’s hugely inspiring and quite daunting… Read More ›
Salmon Quiche
all Quiche sometimes still gets a bad press but you can’t beat it as a make-ahead, take-with-you sort of dish. Any sort of gathering that requires guests to bring a dish, picnics and al fresco lunches will all often involve… Read More ›
Chocolate Pistachio Cake and being kinder to yourself
It’s not a modern concept to use the New Year as an opportunity to review and reset. The month of January takes its name from Janus, the Roman god of gates and doorways and he is depicted with two faces,… Read More ›
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