It’s winter – even if the blue sky is telling you otherwise – and at winter your fancy turns to comfort food and cups of tea. And what can be better comfort food than toasty warm crumpets with melting butter … Read More
Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies
My daughter goes mad for these cookies and while I totally understand why she does, they’re such a palaver to make that I really need to be in the mood – and I’m not in that mood as often as … Read More
How to make honey madeleines…
Two things are consuming most of my thoughts at the moment – planning my upcoming road trip in France (I’ll tell you about that another time) and finishing the first draft of my current manuscript (working title Happy Ever After). … Read More
How to make chocolate olive oil mousse
My protagonist, Kate Spence, makes a batch of these chocolate olive oil mousses in a scene in my new novel (working title Happy Ever After). It’s one of those scenes, you know, the ones where the story changes direction, and these … Read More
Salmon Fishcakes
With apologies to my Scottish husband, I’ve long held a belief that the Scots invented whisky to make haggis more palatable – or to make you forget that you’d eaten it. Yes, I know there are plenty of people out … Read More
How to make yoghurt and passionfruit pannacotta
I’m not really sure whether this is a terrine or a panna cotta, but the name really doesn’t make a huge amount of difference for our purposes. Although according to wikipedia – so it must be true – a panna cotta … Read More
How to make…Spicy Dragon Wings
Despite the exotic name, these are quite simply spicy chicken wings – although there is nothing simple about the taste. Heavily laced with sriracha chilli sauce, you’ll be grateful for the cooling avocado dip. These are the perfect beer food … Read More
How to make Christmas Crack
Ok, I need to say at the outset that this really is the name of the recipe. Christmas Crack. My friend made some for her builders and wondered whether she could therefore legitimately call it Builder’s Crack? Hmmm….you’re probably going … Read More
How to make Bumbu Bali
At the base of any great Balinese dish is a good Basa Gede, or Bumbu Bali. Translated literally, Bumbu means spice, Basa means bases, and Gede means Big. Sometimes you might see it called a Base Genep. However it’s described, … Read More
The best ever chocolate bread and butter pudding…
Max (Maxine) Henderson is the protagonist in my upcoming novel Wish You Were Here. She writes a monthly column for Blossom and Buds- a garden centre in Brookford- about what’s in season and what you can do with it. I … Read More