Lavazza are sponsoring Wimbledon this year and have released a rather snazzy themed espresso machine. They sent one along for me to try out, and it’s one of the neatest pod-style machines I’ve used. I’ve been necking espresso at a GP-bothering rate but not before I came up with some coffee recipes to celebrate. Here’s a fudgy-textured and sweet dessert […]
Read moreIsn’t it great when things just work out? I had some bananas blackening on my windowsill, and the next day some nice person emails me a bunch of Cadbury’s Fairtrade recipes, including this one for chocolate banana bread. Serendipity. I don’t even particularly like bananas, but I seem to be cooking a lot with them lately. This was lovely – […]
Read moreAKA Heston’s chocolate and passion fruit popping candy cake. At New year I treated myself to Heston’s popping candy cake, which costs an absolute fortune, even on half price sale, but the results were amazing: bitter, sweet, chocolatey and of course popping! I was contemplating recreating it when it pops up on How To Cook Like Heston. With my sister […]
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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