28 April 2015
Butter Chicken
Wotchers! Here’s a delicious Deja Food recipe that we regularly enjoy in this house, whenever there is some Tandoori Chicken going spare. That in itself is (...)
13 November 2012
Sicilian Seven Veils Cake
Wotchers! Here’s a delicious treat I’ve had bookmarked for YEARS – and boy am I kicking myself for not trying it sooner! For no other reason that the mirror (...)
14 December 2014
Christmas Food Ideas
Wotchers! Here is your 2014 Festive Food Ready Reference page for all your holiday menus! Click on the text to go to the recipe page. I hope you all have a fab (...)
15 July 2011
Tiger Bread
Wotchers! …and rrrrrOWWLL! Yes – Tiger Bread! Also known as Tijgerbrood in The Netherlands and Dutch Crunch Bread in the US. There’s nothing special about the (...)
1 December 2015
Fudge
Wotchers! Confession: This is not my recipe. It is the original fudge recipe that used to be posted on the Carnation website and for some reason was taken down (...)
8 February 2013
Bierocks - traditional eastern european cabbage and meat pastries
Wotchers! This week’s recipe is another great comfort food and snack item that originates in eastern Europe, and migrated from Russia, through Germany and (...)
14 May 2016
Egg and Bacon Pies
Wotchers! Sometimes the best-tasting food is also the simplest. This recipe was yet another from one of my many dusty W.I.pamphlets from the mid 20th century. (...)
13 July 2015
Baking Powder Bread
Wotchers! Here’s a fun – and useful – project for you to play around with over the summer – Baking Powder Bread! Similar to, but also different from Soda (...)
7 August 2015
Cream cakes
Wotchers! I spent a lot of our holiday in France prowling around patisseries and artisan boulangeries with eyes like saucers, admiring the delicate and stylish (...)
11 December 2014
Plum pudding
Wotchers! Final Festive Food recipe this week, and it’s fantastic! Fruity, spiced, zesty with candied peel, suet-free and thus vegetarian, less than 2 hours in (...)
21 November 2014
Christmas Tree Cakes
Wotchers! Week 3 of Festive Food and it’s a forest of sweet treats! The previous two recipes have, if I’m honest, been more ‘suggestions for tweaking regular (...)
7 May 2012
Banana loaf with chocolate
Wotchers! It’s a two-fer this week, with two versions of the same recipe that’s sure to be a hit whichever one you try. Banana loaf is awesome, because the (...)
20 November 2011
Russian Honey Cake
Wotchers! Or maybe I should say “Привет!” Because following on from last week, I am continuing the Slavic theme with something a bit special for you all: (...)
10 July 2016
Rum and Raisin Cake
Wotchers! The first cookery book I ever bought was the 1982 paperback edition of Poor Cook by Susan Campbell and Caroline Conran. It was on the recommendation (...)
19 March 2016
Condensed Milk Cake
Wotchers! The recipe this week has two relations on the blog – firstly to last week’s Diplomacy Cake and also to the recipe for Cream Cakes of a few months (...)
9 July 2011
Breakfast Sandwiches
Wotchers! This is more a set of assembly instructions rather than a complete recipe, but even if you haven’t made muffins from this recipe (and whyever NOT may (...)
23 March 2014
Banana Ganache Tarts
Wotchers! Here’s a very indulgent treat, just in time for Mothers Day. I’m really rather pleased with the star of the recipe, the banana ganache. Looking at (...)
17 January 2016
Elpida’s Moussaka
Wotchers! And welcome to the new year! I’m starting off with an un-seasonal dish and (probably) ruffling some feathers as I scold Rick Stein. Oh yes. I’m going (...)
31 January 2012
Raffaellos
Wotchers! Something norty but nice this week, with no actual baking required – Bonus! An item that I usually have tucked away in a cupboard is a squeezy bottle (...)
4 July 2015
Russian Zupfkuchen
Wotchers! Bit of a quirky recipe this week, since Russian Zupfkuchen is actually a German dessert and practically unknown in Russia. Many thanks to Florian (...)
7 July 2011
Coleslaw
Wotchers! Coleslaw. A simple dish, but one that can be tricky to get right. And by ‘right’ I mean the way you like it. There are thousands of recipes and (...)
11 August 2011
Saag Aloo
Wotchers! Today we have one of my favourite types of recipe – Déjà-Food! Betcha thought I was going to say Indian? Ha! Déjà-Food is my preferred way to (...)
11 September 2017
Baguettes
Wotchers! Behold the best baguettes I have ever made! Aren’t they pretty!? Having enjoyed the luxury of freshly-baked bread whilst on holiday, I decided to see (...)
27 September 2011
Chocolate and Orange Mousse Cake
Wotchers! Semi-final week on The Great British Bake Off, and the Signature Bake for Round 1 is a layered sponge and mousse cake. My original recipe is listed (...)
22 August 2014
Apricot Jam
Wotchers! Glorious, jewel-like apricot jam is the recipe this week, having spotted some fabulous Bergeron apricots in a local supermarket (Morrisons) for just (...)
