This recipe is a riff on my favourite choc-chip cookie recipe, with nods to Tessa Kiros’s recipe for choc-chip cranberry cookies and to the cranberry oatmeal cookie mix I get at the markets sometimes. (It works even better if you…
Category: oats
Recipe: Early Morning Vegan Chocolate-Banana-Oat Cookies
I’m still playing with my Nigella Lawson app. And yes, it’s 7:30 in the morning, which is a stupid time to be baking, but I woke up at 6:00 when I realised we hadn’t put the bins out, and once…
Recipe: I Just Felt Like Playing In The Pantry Biscuity Slicy Thing
This recipe started off with me deciding that what I really needed in life was a nice, chewy, oaty biscuit with chocolate and dried cherries and almonds in it. I didn’t have a recipe for that, but I did have…
Recipe: Decidedly Un-Roman Cherry, Date and Cacao Balls
I have a friend who is allergic to quite a few things, with nuts and eggs being at the top of the list. She’s always terribly apologetic about this and tells me not to cook for her (fat chance), which…
Recipe: Old English Matrimonials for Melissa
I have a terrible, terrible habit as a cook. Actually, I have many terrible habits as a cook, as I’m sure you all know by now, not least of which is my complete inability to follow a recipe even when…
Recipe: Vegan Dream Cookies
My alarm went off on Sunday morning just as I was in the middle of dictating a recipe for vegan choc-chip cookies to my Italian cousin Rosangela, whom I haven’t seen for nearly 30 years, and who, moreover, lives in…
Recipe: Apple and Berry Crumble
This is my favourite weeknight dessert. It’s hot and fruity and tastes healthy and the leftovers are lovely for breakfast. And it makes heaps, which means you have breakfast for *days* afterwards. It’s not really a standard crumble recipe –…
Recipe: Anzac-y biscuits for (nearly) everyone
I have this friend who is very tricky to cook for, because she and her family between them are allergic to everything. Well, perhaps not everything, but it’s certainly true to say that cooking for her involves avoiding all the…
Recipe: Choc-Chip Cookies for Scientists who have had a Very Bad Day
One of my very nicest postdocs just discovered that the freezer had defrosted, taking all her experiments with it. Her partner, another particularly delightful postdoc, had a Bad Grant Day. And one of the PhD students came into my office…