My resolve weakened at the weekend. Don’t panic, not my Veganuary pledge – not eating cheese is a breeze. No, it was my ‘I’m not going to drink alcohol in January until the 30th when I go on a pub crawl’ resolve. But I fancied a drink on Saturday, soContinue Reading
Had my 16-year-old-self known that one Sunday morning in the future, she’d find herself in a Kent country kitchen making a chocolate cake, she’d have probably partaken in a bit of self-harming. But, it looks as though middle-age has caught up with me, as making a chocolate cake last SundayContinue Reading
Salter challenged me to make a cake; they’d obviously heard about my cake-making skills – which are non-existent – and wanted to laugh at me. Still, they said they’d send me some tools to use in the challenge and I’m a sucker for a gadget, so I told them I’dContinue Reading
I did one of those quizzes on Facebook last night. This quiz was ‘What ridiculous food day is your birthday?’ My friend Helen got some weirdy meat thing so I wasn’t feeling too hopeful I’d get anything decent but I was happy when ‘date nut bread’ popped up for myContinue Reading
Well, what a lot of hassle that was! I reckoned if I googled ‘Bara brith’ it would probably turn out to be Welsh for ‘don’t try and make this in a bread machine’. I have no idea why, but it came into my head I fancied some teacake/fruit loaf typeContinue Reading
The Meat Eater had a birthday yesterday so I made him a cake. Not a very traditional cake – this one was low fat and healthy. I didn’t make it because it was low fat and healthy, I made it because I’ve never made a proper cake before and icingContinue Reading