Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
Splash out with a festival of baking and indulgence over the Easter holidays with these recipes i’ve created for Parentdish. It’s good to have some kitchen projects in the bank ready for kids to help out with on days where you don’t have any plans, so bookmark this page when you’re making your Easter to-do [...]
I just wanted to share the results of the photoshoot I worked on last week for UKTV’s Good Food Channel website with my good friend and very talented photographer Sharron Gibson. Part one of the assignment was to make and photograph a series of cupcake recipes by Crumbs Couture - so I spent two days [...]
Children’s birthday parties are fun to plan, but often result in panic-stricken midnight baking sessions trying to translate your vision of the perfect cake into reality. It all looked so blinking easy on that website… Last year I wasted a lot of time and stress trying to make 35 Death Star cake pops for Sam’s [...]
A cake that tastes as good as it looks – and I mean it REALLY delivers! We met some friends at the South Bank recently and had an indoor picnic at the Royal Festival Hall. We took our own cake supplies and got the teas in from the cafe. Apparently this is okay – unlike [...]
Anyone feeling Christmassy yet?! I have to confess I’m already cranking up Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas while I’m cooking the kids’ tea… I’m delighted therefore to have been chosen to be a Sainsbury’s Christmas Ambassador this year, so i’m on a mission to spread some festive cheer to you all. Get the [...]
This simple brownie recipe is ideal if you need to come up with the goods for a school cake stall but don’t have a lot of time to spare. You can’t beat a slab of chocolate brownie after a long week at school – especially one drizzled with melted chocolate and topped with white chocolate [...]
These glistening individual tart tatins were meant to be for a grown up dinner party that fell through due to illness, so I rolled them out for the whole family anyway to see how they’d work out. The recipe is from the fabulous Lucy’s Food by Lucy Cufflin – one of the most useable cookery [...]
The American wing of the Bryson family are joining us in the UK this week. We will have two little girls in the Feeding Boys household, 2 months and 22 months, so we are beyond excited! To celebrate we’re going to throw a 4th July barbecue – let’s hope there’s a gap in the rainclouds… [...]
I’ve got back into bread making recently and boy is it satisfying. What with jubilee weekend fast approaching and a flurry of picnics and barbecues on the cards, I thought i’d rustle up some bread rolls using this amazing flour I snapped up from Waitrose. Crunchy mixed seed bread flour is from the health conscious [...]
Manky banana alert – why can’t we ever get through the damned things? No matter how green they are when I buy them they ripen in an instant – infuriating. Well only slightly coz it’s always an excuse to bake a cake with them. I’d put a recipe for Banana and Date loaf from Sian over [...]
