Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gwyneth Paltrow has had a lot of stick for being ‘too perfect’. It seems attractive women shouldn’t be too accomplished, and when they are they seem to get shot down in flames. It seems bringing out a cookery book was one step too far, and there’s been quite a lot of bitchy reviews about it. [...]
A while ago I got involved with a spot of recipe testing for Vanessa Kimbell who was working on her first cook book Prepped! and had recruited fellow food bloggers to put her recipes through their paces. I tried out a double cook recipe that started off with duck noodles, and then the leftovers were [...]
I was given Jennifer Joyce’s super-girly cookery book Meals in Heels by my friend Ris as a birthday present. It’s a very glamorous looking publication full of illustrations of impossibly groomed women decked out in vertiginous heels and cocktail dresses as they nonchalantly stir something bubbling on their designer hob. Do these women really exist? [...]
