Today we went back for more lovely Cake and Bake Show action. The lady herself, Mary Berry, was going to be there. Along with more from Edd Kimber, and it was to his bakery demo that we first went: He was demoing his 20 minute croissant recipe, which I had seen on his website a […]
….we got up, went to Borough Market for some breakfast: (that would be a Spinach and Feta Spelt Croissant – totally delicious) I also got in a couple of Christmas present purchases, but of course I’m not showing you those as that would be telling! We then headed over to Portobello Road Market, and at […]
….to London for the weekend! I’m leaving Mr M behind and heading off to the big smoke for a weekend with my Mum. Given how long we has been planning to go… I still messed up and left ticket purchasing until last minute, thankfully it all worked out ok in the end! We’re going to […]
This week’s Great British Bake Off wasn’t particularly inspiring, but I had a whole load of other baking to do anyway. This week is the Above and Beyond Bake Off week, and we had decided to have ours today. Which meant lots of baking. I thought I would give puff pastry another go, and also […]
These past few weeks have been crazy busy, work has been stressful, people have been angry…. well overdue a break! So thankfully this weekend we went to see my cousin. Along with being amazingly wonderful people with super cute kids, they also live in rural Buckinghamshire in a lovely house with acres of woodland. Lush. […]
My friend bought this book, Knitted Dinosaurs by Tina Barrett. And well… they were all just so darn cute! Not really scary at all. I needed it in my life. But I guess knitting a dinosaur for myself was kind of silly. I need children to justify these things. But I do have totally adorable […]
I must confess. These pies would fail the technical challenge. Pretty much instantly. Being that I didn’t follow the recipe in the slightest and all. I varied the recipe as I didn’t see the point in making meat pies, being a vegetarian I couldn’t eat them, although I am sure Mr M would have eaten […]
This as a little overdue post, I had promised it just over a week ago, but I wanted to wait until after the wedding in question (no spoilers here), and hopefully have a picture of the end result! A few months ago my friend’s sister saw a cake online that she wanted for her wedding, […]
Ugh. This week has been basically, hell. Work has been stressful and busy, and unfortunately probably isn’t going to get any better anytime soon. So let’s embrace the baking! This week of the Bake Off, week 4, the technical challenge was Creme Caramel, the signature and showstoppers were tortes and layered meringues… They didn’t much […]
I’ve been dying to make doughnuts for weeks now. I thought this weekend would be the weekend… but it almost wasn’t. I bought a couple of books the other week, one of which was the Top Pot book, as we had some of their doughnuts while visiting our friend in Seattle, I settled on a […]
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