Author: Catherine

Index Update!

Just a quick note to say I’ve updated all my recipe indexes, and added a new page for my Low-Fructose recipes.  I say this with some trepidation, as I have been unable to get a straight answer on which vegetables,…

Review: Chocolate Degustation at Shocolate

I had this really irritating dream very early on Saturday morning.  I dreamed that I’d gone out to lunch somewhere, and halfway through the meal, the restaurant moved me and my friend to a table with ten other people.  Then,…

Quick apology post

This blog has been rather quiet recently, and I’m afraid it will continue to be quiet for the next couple of weeks – I am sitting a singing exam on September 9th, so currently all those waking hours which are…

Cake Preview

Just a short post tonight, because I have indeed baked wedding cakes with some success but also, apparently, at the price of a migraine and some serious wobbliness, so it’s an early night for me.

Showing the working out…

This is mostly notes for my own nefarious, wedding-cake-making purposes, so I’m going to put most of it under a cut.  But if you enjoy reading the convoluted workings of my brain when trying to calculate food and allergy things,…

Recipe: Perfumed Blood Orange and Cardamom Cake

Tonight was our regular fortnightly dinner party with friends who live down the road, and really should have been an excellent excuse to practice wedding cakes.  The trouble is, I am currently fighting a psychological battle on the subject of…