Have you run out of inspiration for those last minute Christmas gifts? Or perhaps you’re expecting family members or friends to pop round over the next couple of weeks and need to […]
Festive baking: Easy peasy shortbread biccies
Cookbook Review: Jeff Potter’s Cooking for Geeks
When you step into the kitchen to create a foodie masterpiece, you’re unwittingly stepping into the world of culinary science. Processes you’ve never really given any thought to have the potential to […]
Slow cooked Spanish chicken, chorizo, and rice
Sometimes nothing beats a slow cooker dinner. Having your dinner bubbling away in the slow cooker while you get on with something else, smelling the delicious aromas as the hours and minutes […]
Tesco 60-Minute Roast Challenge: Our Attempt!
When Tesco offered to send us a hamper containing some helpful roast dinner bits and bobs and some vouchers to create a roast dinner – with the time constraint of one hour […]
Veg in disguise: Secret Sausages review
In our home, we are huge fans of Dragons’ Den. Therefore, when Deborah Meaden announced that she wasn’t a fan of the taste of a certain vegetarian sausage brand, and Peter Jones […]
The FSA wades in on rare burgers at last
With the increase in popularity of ‘posh’ burger joints such as Byron Burger and GBK offering customers ‘rare’ or ‘pink’ burgers, it seems like actually ordering a well-cooked burger is becoming slightly unfashionable. […]
Foodies Festival at Ripley Castle: A great day out
Having spent the week looking forward to going back to Ripley Castle, where Charlotte and I got married, we were not let down at all after a great day out at the […]
Wood fired ovens: A real threat to BBQs?
Caroline wonders whether wood-fired ovens will ever be a real threat to the barbecue… You may think you’ve got outdoor cooking cracked with your barbecue, whether it’s a fancy gas job or […]
CLOSED – GIVEAWAY: French Brasserie Cookbook – The Heart of French Home Cooking (paperback version)
I am a huge fan of Daniel Galmiche and his cooking, as well as his excellent and easy to follow cookbooks. Having reviewed them before here, I can vouch that this cookbook […]
A home cooked Sunday Sichuan feast!
I love proper home cooking. I won’t lie: we don’t do it often enough during the week as we are both normally shattered by the time we get home and pasta or […]