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.
I had all kinds of grand plans for my Mum's birthday cake, but in the end it was a combination of simple icing and some papercrafting skills to make the (...)
For those visiting from other countries, I should really explain that the Hairy Bikers are a couple men from the north of England who drive round the country (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Wedding cake with fruit layer and simple decoration
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My elder son got married yesterday. I didn't make the wedding cake, but as this is a food blog, I thought I'd share a photograph of this very simply but (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
As soon as I saw Ruth Clemens Gingerbread Man Christmas Cake at The Pink Whisk, I knew I had to try to make something similar with the cake I made from the (...)
This recipe may look a little familiar to regular visitors to my blog. I'm reposting it for the No Waste Food Challenge on Kate's blog 'Turquoise Lemons'.This (...)
'Tis the season for berries, and how I love them! Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, blueberries, blackberries and currants too, it makes my mouth water (...)
We had visitors this weekend and I made this cake for dessert. If you like amaretti biscuits and that lovely almondy/marzipanny flavour then you will love this (...)
Here is my Christmas Cake decorated with holographic gold edible glitter and little gold cupcake stars - ooh I love a bit of bling! That was as far as I had (...)
