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The best mayonnaise (and tartare sauce) and it’s easy peasy too
There are far too many cookery programmes on TV these days. This statement may surprise you, as I’m clearly somewhat obsessed with food and cooking. But cookery has become entertainment, and in my...
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That cinnamon apple jelly
You like cinnamon right? And you can imagine having hot buttered toast spread with a deliciously sweet and cinnamony apply jelly right? Well what are you waiting for? Go get some apples, preferably...
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Another chocolatey cakey thingie
Inspiration comes from many places. Today it came from a special offer at my local supermarket: they were selling off nearly out-of-date buttermilk so I popped a carton into my trolley. I’d thought...
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Sort of borscht
I’ve mentioned it before, but I love beetroots. I never used to, but as a child my only experience of beetroot was from a jar full of vinegar. Whenever I see fresh beetroot in my local farmshop or...
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Caraway biscuits
Yesterday I made my own sort of a borscht. A beetroot soup, lightly flavoured with caraway seeds. It reminded me how much I love not only beetroots, but also caraway and this morning I woke with a...
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Better than Patatas Bravas
Potatoes. So versatile. What’s not to like about them? Well, apart from the fact that they are full of carbs and it’s oh so easy to fall into the trap of mashing them with lots of butter and/or cream...
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Rhubarb marmalade
I love my local farm shop. Let me give it a shout out.. it’s at Overton Farm in the Clyde Valley. Given the choice between spending a wee bit more per item at the farm shop, or spending a whole lot...
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Perfect salad for when you have the best tomatoes
You already know that I love buying and cooking and eating local food. So when Clyde Valley Tomatoes were back at my local farmer’s market earlier this month, I knew we’d be eating tomatoes all week! I...
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Delicious and easy marmalade-y sausages
I like sausages. And I now like marmalade. For most of my life only one of those sentences has been true. I’m glad that they both are now. So, since I like marmalade, it seems sensible to start using...
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More delicious things to do with blackcurrants
Blackcurrants. When you have a glut of them you REALLY have a glut of them. I have a couple of wee blackcurrant bushes which are ignored for most of the year and this year were surrounded by chest high...
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Apple chutney
Several years ago a friend off-loaded bags of apples on me. I put them in everything, but the favourite by far was the Apple Chutney from Judith Wills’ brilliant New Home Larder. It’s now my go-to...
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Find a recipe…
This is an attempt at creating an index of my recipes. I have created some categories, which may only really make sense to me. They are: Preserves Homebaking Drinkies and other strange things Supper...
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Traybake-tastic
I do love a traybake. You may have noticed that I have more recipes for chocolate brownies on this blog than perhaps is strictly necessary. But I haven’t really indulged my love of a traybake with...
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The best cranberry sauce
Cranberry sauce. It’s one of those things that just happens at Christmas. With turkey. And stuffing and all those other bits. It pretty much gets lost in amongst all that other stuff, doesn’t it? And...
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Desert Island Bites
I love Radio 4. I can’t remember what age I was when I first realised that it was what I wanted as the soundtrack to my life, but now it’s on whenever I’m cooking. And I cook a lot. Weekends nearly...
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Sweet and salty nut brittle
Is salted caramel still on trend? A couple of years ago it seemed to be everywhere. And I was happy. I love that combination of sweetness and saltiness. I adore peanut butter, adore it even more on hot...
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Blondie
The first record I bought was Abba’s Arrival. The second was Blondie’s Parallel Lines. I was a little in love with Debbie Harry. Weren’t we all? Blondie has stood the test of time. But these days...
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Crunchy, tasty, sweet and salty.
I’m one of those people who likes their sweets to be slightly salty. I don’t cook with a lot of salt, preferring to use herbs and spices. I’ve bought into the ‘fact’ that too much salt is bad for you....
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Boozy mini cakes for BozzyFest
We get the Sunday Times every weekend. And occasionally the Times on a Saturday too. Last weekend the Times promoted that it had recipes for Bank Holiday baking. So, of course, I didn’t see much of the...
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The greatest thing since sliced bread…
Bread. I love the stuff. But it’s the real stuff that I love, the sourdough, the slowly-risen loaf. It doesn’t seem right that commercially produced highly processed loaves, made by the intensive...
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