Tasty Stuff Without the Fuss and a Little Bit of Making
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Food Blogging Events on Jul 29th, 2010
The August challenge, and my first, from Fresh From the Oven was to make a whole wheat walnut bread. Like the Daring Bakers, Fresh From the Oven has a new challenge, hosted by one of its members, every month. For July our host was Sarah from Simply Cooked who chose her recipe from The Neighborhood [...]
Posted in Baking, Food Blogging Events, Muffins, Vegan on Jul 26th, 2010
It seems that the entire world has gone mad for matcha, and once again I am late to the culinary bandwagon. Last week I visited the Mind Apples pop-up health farm, then went to the Japan Centre for some of their splendid (and very affordable) sushi and spied lots of matcha. I remembered reading about [...]
Posted in Baking, Food Blogging Events, Fruit, Urgh on May 13th, 2010
This week’s Blogger Secret Ingredient is hosted by Jenn who is responsible for the wonderful Jenn Cuisine, she has choosen honey as her secret ingredient.
For my submission I wanted to make a springtime deeply feminine cake, with spelt flower and almonds, sweetened with honey and flavoured with orange blossom water. I would have liked few [...]
Posted in Baking, Food Blogging Events, Vegan on May 7th, 2010
I have only recently discovered Blogger Secret Ingredient and have not managed to take part in the last 2 challenges. However I am well prepared for this week which is cashews and is hosted by Aubree Cherie from Living Free. For those not familiar with BSI it was set up by Biz at Biggest Diabetic [...]
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Chocolate, Puddings, Quick & Easy, Uncategorized, Vegan on Apr 26th, 2010
I have not seen my friend Sue for seemingly eons, so I texted her yesterday and asked her over for brunch. She is having a work crisis but said she would love to pop by for an hour. As she is a self confessed chocoholic I designed these muffins just for her.
These follow my usual [...]
Posted in Baking, Breakfast, Food Blogging Events, Fruit, Uncategorized, Vegan on Apr 18th, 2010
Madhuram of Egg Less Cooking is challenging us to “Bake anything egg less using one or more of the whole grain forms of quinoa (whole quinoa, whole grain quinoa flour, quinoa flakes, quinoa cereal, etc).“ As I have a) not taken part in a foodblogging event for ages and b) bake almost everything without eggs [...]
We have a tradition of having muffins for breakfast on weekend mornings. Based on my basic muffin recipe these are easy to whip up first thing in the morning. Using a mixture of spelt and wheat flour makes the muffins more cake like (if you do not have spelt flour use all plain flour), the [...]
Posted in Baking, Quick & Easy on Nov 9th, 2009
I am have always been one to jump late onto any bandwagon and this is no exception. 3 years ago a recipe for the no knead bread (adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery) appeared and it took the food blog world by storm with seemingly everyone making it, blogging about it and even stealing [...]
We have a tradition of having muffins for breakfast at weekends which has been neglected for some months and I was missing my muffins; so I resolved to make some this morning. It is now November and a murky, wet, grey morning so a warming, spiced muffin was required and there was a lonely sweet [...]
Posted in Baking, Food Blogging Events, Puddings, Towards 5 a Day on Jun 4th, 2009
The May Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague by Rick Rodgers.
It seems like I am constantly playing Daring Bakers / Cooks catch up so yet again [...]