Author: Catherine

Recipe Index Update

OK, I’ve just brought my Recipe Index up to date.  I hope.  Firefox crashed on me part-way through, but I think I found everything again. Note to self: update your recipe index more than once every four months or you…

Planning and Pizza

I was hoping to write more here while I was on holidays, but the combination of my usual December activities, plus confectionery, plus the funeral, all followed up with several days of drainingly hot weather have left me more exhausted…

Recipe: Baked Ricotta

Today is horrendously hot, and the next two days threaten to be worse.  I have therefore spent the afternoon… cooking. No, really, bear with me, it isn’t as mad as it sounds.  Cooking in this weather can only be described…

Further to last night’s post…

There were six people. I think I may have slightly overcatered. Just slightly. This is why it is dangerous for me to own books like The Perfect Scoop.  Because I really do want to make every single thing in them……

Quiet New Year’s Eve…?

I wasn’t *having* a New Year’s Eve Party this year, on the grounds of exhaustion and really evil hormones. So why is it that I have somehow spent today making chocolate ice-cream and marshmallows and honeycomb and meringues and spiced…

Recipe: Easy Pasta Dinner

For some strange reason, nobody ever gives me hampers.  Possibly, they have some idea that my house is full of food already and a hamper is the last thing I need.  I can’t imagine where they would get such a…

Recipe: Raw Vegan Mini Christmas Puddings!

Hannah over at Wayfaring Chocolate keeps on putting up these fascinating raw vegan truffle recipes.  Today was supposed to be my day for making mince pies (and the day isn’t over yet…), but I thought it might be fun to…