Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
I’ve started a new Cook Book Club in my local area… it’s an excuse to talk about food, swap recipes and ideas with fellow cooks. I was inspired by The Bath Cook Book Club and then Ren’s in St Albans – I just couldn’t stop thinking what a great idea it would be to start [...]
I’m not sure if you’re aware of the Mums Helping Mums campaign from Tilda rice in association with the World Food Programme. You might have noticed the special packs of Tilda rice in the supermarket… Well now they’re extending the scheme to include a new downloadable cookbook. For every cookbook downloaded Tilda donates a meal [...]
I had a lovely email ping into my inbox a few weeks ago from Ben May, asking if I’d review his family’s latest cookbook Nosh for busy mums and dads. Bypassing conventional publishers, the May family decided to go it alone producing Nosh for Students 10 years ago when Ben was away at university learning [...]
The huge juggernaut that is the Great British Bake Off just keeps on trucking, rolling out brilliant telly and making stars of some pretty good home bakers. This last series was compelling stuff – the steely blue-eyed Paul Hollywood playing attractive silver fox bad cop to twinkly eyed kind Mary Berry’s good cop, they were [...]
Great British Bake Off fans will no-doubt recognise finalist Miranda Gore Browne, whose skill for making and decorating biscuits stood out from the start and certainly caught legend Mary Berry’s attention. “Miranda is the iced biscuit queen” declares the baking grande dame, in a quote on the cover of Miranda’s new book Biscuit. But can [...]
Making jam and marmalade can be a daunting prospect for the uninitiated. I was lucky enough to have a trained WI judge teach me (thanks Mum!), but this book is the next best thing! First Preserves author Vivien Lloyd has 25 years’ experience of making and demonstrating award-winning preserves. As well as judging competitions, Vivien runs [...]
I’ve owned a fair amount of diet recipe books over the years, but to be honest they’ve never appealed enough to use them very much. The food styling is usually non existent, and the recipes just don’t have any ooze appeal, you know, those tempting pictures in normal cookery books that make you want to [...]
I’ve already written about one of the frankly divine recipes from Aldo’s latest book, and since then i’ve had a chance to make another of his creations and have a good read of the rest of the tome. So the next recipe I tried was a truly yum coconut and coriander soup with sweet potato. [...]
I think most people recognise Aggie MacKenzie as the sensible Scottish one from TV Show How Clean Is Your House. I’ve never seen the racy blonde one Kim in the same way again after she got totally slozzled on Celebrity Come Dine With Me a few years back and completely shamed herself – pure TV [...]
As the weather cruelly switches from Indian summer to wind, rain and grey skies, a recipe book full of pies for every possible occasion has definitely got my attention. Pieminister creators Tristan Hogg and Jon Simon fancy themselves as the leaders of a ‘pie revolution’ – reinventing the pie for a new generation. Personally I don’t [...]
