Sticky Gingerbread

  This is another recipe from the wonderful Nigella Christmas. I promise that will be the end of my sweet treats recipes for a while and back to the proper business of real food. Well, for a week or so anyway!

Panna Cotta Tart

A few weeks ago I was on Pinterest and came across this amazing recipe for Rhubarb Panna Cotta Tart on Hummingbird High and thought, I have to give this a go!

Chocolate Loaf

Well, did everyone watch the Great British Bake Off final? I won’t give away any spoilers here but I loved this series and was delighted for the winner. I had a day off on Wednesday so I decided I had to make a cake to have while watching the final. I wanted something simple and […]

Apple and Blackberry Crumble

A friend recently gave me a lovely gift of her homemade blackberry jam. I have to confess some evenings I have been just having bread with this jam as my dinner! We were chatting about picking blackberries and I said I got a notion to make a blackberry crumble. She gave me a tip to […]

Strawberry Cake

I had a full punnet of strawberries in the fridge that were about to turn and was looking for something to do with them. Also, it was Great British Bake off evening so I needed to have cake!

Lamb and Pea Samosas

I recently had a craving for some good Indian food but I didn’t want anything very spicy or a curry like I’d usually go for. So I was flicking through Rick Stein’s India looking for inspiration and came across his recipe for lamb samosas. Bingo! Samosas are fried or baked pastry parcels with a savoury, […]

Chocolate Silk Pie

  In case you have not had enough chocolate over Easter, I’m bringing you another chocolate recipe! If you have leftover Easter eggs and are not sure what to do with them you could make this pie. It is another recipe adapted from Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen. It is a very decadent but so easy, […]

Black Pudding and Apple Tart

I struggled a bit with naming this dish. Technically yes, it is a tart. However a tart suggests something far more elegant than this!