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This August, I signed up for the Preserve the Bounty Challenge hosted at Nourished Kitchen which is an intensive 5-week challenge designed to teach you how to preserve the bounty of summer without... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)
Like all good cheesecakes, tucking into this is so effortless and soothing that it’s easy to forget yourself and just gobble up more and more. And, like a sweet cheesecake, it’s also a bit of a no-brainer that yields very impressive results. Cut (read full article)
I reviewed Ottolenghi’s ‘Plenty’ a few days ago and from the comments it seems everyone possessing the volume (and a few who don’t!) treasures it as much as I do. I thought I’d share another recipe from its pages – (read full article)
Up till a couple of years ago meals in our household were largely carnivorous affairs with vegetables taking the form of hastily-thrown together salads and unimaginative steamed or roasted sides. Ottolenghi single-handedly changed all that through t (read full article)
"We mac-a-holics are like cats, we will ALWAYS land on our feet, especially when we have each other 4 support!" Julia @ Always Room For Dessert on twitter My childhood whizzed by in careless abandon. All her time went in telling me to read more book (read full article)
"If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, what Am I Doing in the Pits?"Erma BombeckYIKES I did it again!! Yes, it was back to the Ottolenghi cookbook for the nth time. Well I had cherries, neatly pitted in a bowl, all thanks to a cherry pitter that Purple Food (read full article)
"We are shameless! We want to seduce you,to stimulate your imagination, invigorate your senses, and tempt you to try the wonderful flavours of Moorish food!"Greg and Lucy Malouf... from the book, Moorish 'Moorish: Flavours from Mecca to Marrake (read full article)
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” Jim Davis That Ottolenghi cookbook has me completely smitten! I think it follows me around, planting itself on a table near me, calling me softly. It (read full article)
Love your macaronsDelicious treat but reallyIt's a foot fetish.Haiku in comments @ Leave Room For Dessert It's time for Mac Attack 5 at our other blog Mac Tweets, and for me the roller coaster ride was on once again. It's time to find those evasive (read full article)
Baking after midnight always has such a calming effect on me. Ever since January, I've been inundated by emails and texts from readers and friends asking me one thing: when am I going to make Whoopie Pies. The first time I'd received this r (read full article)