This blog reflects my love of cooking, cookery books, blogs and recipe websites. I love to eat, so welcome to my farm kitchen, come and see what I am cooking and eating today.
Chocolate cake is the usual request for celebration cakes in our house and I've made quite a few different kinds of chocolate cakes over the years. I'm easily (...)
This cake was created as a result of a glut of rhubarb and those peaches you buy to ripen at home and then they all ripen at once and you have to use them (...)
It's Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday on 15th March, that's next Sunday! It's a great opportunity to treat your Mum, but when you are a busy Mum too, it's (...)
Life is Sweet is the fourth book by Tarek Malouf, founder of The Hummingbird Bakery. The Hummingbird Bakery was instrumental in popularising the sort of high (...)
I've been shopping atAldi again, picking up some great deals on spring produce and making them into an amazing four course dinner for you.The Soup CourseLet's (...)
We have finally eaten all the Christmas biscuits and the cake tin was looking rather bare, so I had a flip through one of my recipe clipping folders and came (...)
It was my birthday recently and, although I did have a beautiful Dundee Cake, made by my Mum, on my birthday, I decided to treat myself to a little indulgence (...)
At the end of the summer, peaches, nectarines and foraged berries, like blackberries, are sweet and full of flavour. I'm lucky living on the farm, that I can (...)
'Tis the season for berries, and how I love them! Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, blueberries, blackberries and currants too, it makes my mouth water (...)
In my day job, I frequently have a one hour commute to Glasgow. This journey has become a real pleasure thanks to a group of regular travellers who share (...)
The best cake plate is an empty one!The internet is a wonderful place to meet like-minded people and even within the food blogging community you find yourself (...)
It was my mother-in-law's birthday on Sunday. I know that she loves coconut, so I made this Vanilla and Coconut Cake, a recipe by Lynn Hill, from the (...)
After our visit to sophisticated, metropolitan London, the Best of British Tour moves back to the country as we sample the food of Dorset.Karen at Lavender and (...)
I've had a birthday recently, yes another one, they definitely come round quicker every year. Quite often I end up with a bought cake from M&S but as I was on (...)
I'm actually a bit fed up with making chocolate cakes and would have preferred to make something else, however when asked what kind of cake he would like for (...)
Chocolate and cherries for we should cocoa challenge
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When Choclette, of the Chocolate Log Blog and co-owner of the 'We Should Cocoa' challenge, asked me to guest host while Chele of Chocolate Teapot was taking a (...)
