Category bakings
Cheesey Vegetable Pie
Some of the gifts on my wishlist for Christmas were some Alan Silverwood pans. They are great, really easy to clean (but NOT Dishwasher safe), and really non-stick. One of them was a 4in Pork Pie tin, which I hadn’t used yet. Time to rectify that: Cheesey Vegetable Pie Recipe (Modified from Paul Hollywood’s Hand-raised […]
Chocolate and Lime Meringue Pie
I re-discovered my jar of Sherbert Lemons this week. I bought them from the Warner Bros Studio Tour in May(!) and they have been sat in the spare room, forgotten and abandoned. Thankfully, the poor weather means they didn’t get too sticky, and so I have now almost finished them off! But they got me […]
Baking day: Coconut and Ginger Hobnobs and Ginger Cake!
Bad On Call shift = Day off work! Woo! After doing a bit of marking when I got home at 5AM (one of my co-workers is being assessed next week, so I have been assisting our training officer in marking off the evidence and questions), I finished watching the last few episodes of Numb3rs (now […]
Weekend Brunch: Coconut French Toast with Homemade Brioche
Weekends deserve an indulgent breakfast. Especially when you’re not working. One of the recipes that caught my eye in Anjum’s Indian Vegetarian Feast was a variation on a classic. Had to be made. Although, just as when we went to the shop on Friday night, there wasn’t any Paneer to be had, there also wasn’t […]
Baps and Buns
I was feeling the urge to make something new. In this case, from my Veggie Burgers Every Which Way book, which I bought a few months ago with some Waterstoones vouchers I had… then hadn’t got round to making anything out of! In the true style of Sunday cooking… I didn’t have any onions, and […]
Hobnob day: Chocolate and Ginger, Cinnamon and Raisin, and Seedy Vegan.
It’s International Homemade Hobnob Celebration day! I spent the majority of the morning in bed reading my Kindle. The benefit (and indeed, the drawback) of the Kindle, is that when you finish one book in a series… you can just download the next one… until you run out of books of course. Eventually however, I […]
Crafty update: Hook Roll, Cross stitch and getting my sourdough mojo back
I have been busy I tell you! Granted, the majority of these were done yesterday when I had the day off work, but I did two of the little ones tonight. I think I might be getting the hang of it! Here’s a close up of the large ones: They are constructed of alternating rounds […]
How 2012 was for me.
A year ago today I published my first blog post. Just a simple little Hello. 1 year later, and I this is my 189th post. 45 of them included chocolate. At least 80% of them were probably fueled by chocolate. Or Chocolate Microwave Brownies…. Some major events have happened this year, for us Brits in […]
Christmas Gifts: Cheese Stars
This year, Christmas was a little odd. I was working over some of Christmas day, so we went to visit my family the weekend before, and did some present swapping, relatives visiting, and of course some baking. My Mum has been keeping an eye on my crafting and baking goings on via the blog, so […]
Christmas Cakes in a hurry!
I confess. I have been very unorganised this year. We didn’t even get around to sending any Christmas cards (sorry everybody) The intention was to make all sorts of homemade goodies for people, mince pies, cakes,……………….. The reality of course is that life got in the way, and I have instead been busy with all […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 