Nigella 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 moreI’ve never been a fan of banana. At all. But this year my daughter has developed a voracious appetite for them, which is great that she’s eating foods that I don’t, but on the other side means you occasionally get a few bananas knocking about at the end of their ripey life. So Mrs Spud made some banana muffins and thy were […]
Read moreOh man, these are so good. Bursts of tartness and then lovely sweet white chocolate… super! I loved them so much I made another batch the next night. Er- of course I didn’t, that would imply I’d scoffed them all in one evening… White chocolate and blueberry muffins (makes 8 – 10): 150g plain flour 50g caster sugar ½ tsp […]
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