I had such grandiose plans for this anniversary post! I was going to make macarons! I was going to make a gluten-free *and* vegan number 1 cake in best Women’s Weekly style! I was going to have a party and…
Category: Recipes
Recipe: Gluten-Free Sponge Cake
My mother asked me to make a couple of ‘lemony sponge cakes’ for my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary party last Saturday (Happy Anniversary, Mum and Dad!). I immediately suggested the insane lemon meringue cake that I like to make for…
Recipe: Fudgy Chocolate and Beetroot Cake (Vegan)
Chocolate and beetroot cake sounds like such a bad idea, but it really isn’t. It turns out I own several recipes for it, in fact, though they use tinned beetroot, which doesn’t sound like a winning strategy to me. Also,…
Recipe: Moroccan Snake Cake
This recipe is adapted from a Claudia Roden recipe (which I think turns up in different forms in several of her books). It’s fairly heavily adapted, actually. For one thing, my version is vegan, though yours doesn’t have to be. …
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: Rocky Road for Timon
I’m in mad cooking mode for Shakespeare tomorrow. At this very moment, something that I hope will turn into Turkish Delight is glooping away, jellyfish-like, in a saucepan, so imagine, if you will, that this post is punctuated by mad…
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: Baked Sweet Potatoes with Hot Pink Coleslaw
This is a recipe I make quite often but have just realised I have never posted on this blog! Since I need it for a collection of recipes I’m making elsewhere, I thought I’d better post it now, even though…
Recipe: Pizza Serafina (Sultana pizza)
I work in a Medical Research Institute, and the nature of research is that people travel a lot for their careers. My current Divisions include scientists and students from France, Germany, Switzerland, Algeria, China, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, The…
Recipe: Lemon Drink for a hot day
This post was going to be called Lemon Drink for Shakira, only then it turned out I had lost my copy of the recipe, but on the bright side, I actually had given it to Shakira already, and she still…