A little gem from Nigella Christmas. I am firmly with her on this one: I don’t know how anybody manages much more than toast on Christmas morning. And while I didn’t make these on 25th December they were perfect for a couple of days later. From Nigella Lawson’s Christmas Morning Muffins. Cranberry muffins (makes about 12): 250g plain flour 2½ […]
Read moreNigella just made Christmas dinner completely awesome for me this year. Along with her failsafe recipe for turkey, this yule log saved me from one of the things I don’t much care for: Christmas pudding. I do however, love chocolate and one more tweak converted it into one a riff on one my favourite things in the whole world: black […]
Read moreI can’t possibly put a picture up of the icing abomination I made. I’m just not good at it. Waitrose very kindly sent me Delia’s Christmas Cake in a box. I gleefully unwrapped it, opened the box and took out the contents. Erm, is that it? Some fruit, some flour, some sugar, some nuts, some spice… and that’s about it. […]
Read moreSometimes, blog posts I write are to spread the news of some great recipe I found. Other times it’s about crazy experiments. But the aim has always been to be a log of what I cooked, and that’s what this Christmas Day feast is about: to remind myself what worked and what to fix for next time. Perhaps surprisingly I’d […]
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