Meatballs (Daring Cooks Challenge June 2013)
I’m not a meat ball eater, but was inspired by my very old waitrose free ‘Seasons’ cooking magazine (back in the days when they didn’t have those weekend newspapers) I […]
Swedish Prinsesstårta (Daring Bakers Challenge May 2013)
Prinsesstårta This cake brought me back to my youth – a day trip to Ikea for flat-pack furniture, 39p hot dogs & car shaped sweets. On occasions I would try […]
En Croute (Daring Cooks Challenge May 2013)
Vegetables en croute / Vegetarian Cornish Pasty Our lovely Monkey Queen of Don’t Make Me Call My Flying Monkeys, was our May Daring Cooks’ hostess and she challenged us […]
Sarvarin (Daring Bakers Challenge April 2013)
Natalia of Gatti Fili e Farina challenges us to make a traditional Savarin, complete with soaking syrup and cream filling! We were to follow the Savarin recipe but were allowed […]
SIngapore Eating
I’ve finally got round to finishing this blog post from my travels to Malaysia and Singapore in November 2012. Better late than never! So I managed to escape my mum […]
Homemade Cheese (Daring Cooks Challenge March 2013)
Sawsan from chef in disguise was our March 2013 Daring Cooks hostess! Sawsan challenges us to make our own homemade cheeses! She gave us a variety of choices to make, […]
Dutch Pastry Gevulde Speculaas (Daring Bakers challenge Jan 2013)
Francijn of Koken in de Brouwerij was our January 2013 Daring Bakers’ Hostess and she challenged us to make the traditional Dutch pastry, Gevulde Speculaas from scratch! That includes making […]
