We’ve been decorating a lot recently. Despite moving into the house we now live in in October last year, and endless trips to Homebase, we are still sanding, still painting, and still making trips to the timber yard at 6:30 am. I am not a… Read More
All posts tagged “spice”
What’s for Supper? Teriyaki Mackerel and Quick Pickled Cucumber
There is a time and a place for slow food, and Tuesday evening is neither the time nor the place.
This is the House that Eggs Built Shakshuka
Learning to cook will, for me, always be bound up with two other things: grieving for my mother, and my relationship with Sam. One death, one birth, both preceding my first foray into the kitchen by such a small margin that I struggle to unpick… Read More
Christmas Anxiety Brownies
For the last week I have had acute Christmas anxiety. So I made brownies. Christmas brownies. The best brownies, possibly, that you will ever taste.
Scarily Good Hallowe’en Soup
I love autumn, but my immune system does not.
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Hot Cross Bun Loaf
Reader, I will be frank with you: in many ways, this bread is the antithesis of the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books that littered libraries when I was a child. But please don’t let that stop you.
Something to Prove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bun)
A confession, to begin with – appropriate, given the season. This is not a story of how I stopped worrying. It wouldn’t take a psychiatrist to determine that, in the last two years, I have used baking as a crutch, or a crude therapy. I have… Read More