This is a scaled-down version of the bottom half of yesterday’s wedding cake. It’s still enormous. You might halve it again, in fact, andjust make it in one sandwich tin – I made it in a 21cm round springform tin…
Category: eggs
Recipe: Omelette for One
Andrew does not like eggs. It’s a character flaw, I agree, but what can you do? Well, in my case, you just buy a smaller frying pan and continue on regardless, because sometimes, you just need an omelette and that’s…
Recipe: Crêpes for pancake day
This blog is getting a bit Lent-themed at present, but what do you expect from someone who is involved in three separate church choirs? Anyway, Pancake Day (also known as Shrove Tuesday) could stand to be celebrated a bit more…
Recipe: Mayonnaise with Roasted Garlic, Tarragon, and Hubris
Hello! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Unfortunately, I forgot, when I started this blog in the slow season at work, that there would come a time of year when I would be drowning in a seemingly endless sea of…
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…
Recipe: Vanilla and Carob Castle Cake
Hello! Have you missed me? I’ve missed you, she says, feelingly, looking at her terrifying list of un-read blog posts. I’ve got a few posts to catch up on, but I’m still rather exhausted from the confectionery and also from…
Recipe: Coburg Garden Cake
Brunswick and Coburg, the suburbs in which I have lived most of my adult life, were both settled from the 1950s onward by working class immigrants from Italy, Greece, Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean. The proof of this…
Recipe: Christmas Pudding
I know, I know, it’s November and I’m talking about Christmas. But a traditional Christmas Pudding should be made well in advance, though mine is a fridge-dweller rather than the kind you hang off the clothes-horse to dry out. Also,…
Recipe: Farfalle with Asparagus, Broad Beans and Quail Eggs
I feel so pretentious even writing ‘quail eggs’ in the title of this. Suddenly, it’s like I’m on Posh Nosh and I should be writing a recipe which says things like ‘mellifluously confuse the quail eggs until they are a…
Recipe: Oma’s Gingerbread
No, I haven’t abandoned this blog! It just turns out that if you take one choir concert, two grant applications and a bunch of grant outcomes, stir in a couple of work events and add an upcoming Shakespeare Feast, you…