It’s Christmas time. Look on the top of your mother’s fridge. Or at the back of her cupboard. Or in the depths of her drawer of gifts given to her by people that she will then give to somebody else. I can almost guarantee you that you will find a cardboard box containing one of … Continue reading RUM PANETTONE BREAD & BUTTER PUDDING
‘This the season and whatnot…’ So it’s that time of year again and I have hit the point of the season where I don’t feel safe unless I have some form of baked item on my windowsill. I’m talking about festive baking. No it’s not a recipe for the Festive Bake from Greggs, it is … Continue reading BRANDY BANANA & DATE BREAD
Cherry Brandy Soaked Carrot Cake with Lime Cheese Frosting. I call this one of my Redemption Recipes. What I mean by Redemption Recipe, is that I try and salvage what is left of my culinary dignity by cooking something in the present that I once failed to do in the past. My redemption for this … Continue reading CHERRY BRANDY SOAKED CARROT CAKE WITH LIME CHEESE FROSTING (BUZZ MAGAZINE)
Simple White Loaf. I’m making a conscious effort from now on to stop referring to myself as ‘not a baker’. I bake and I bake often. There was a dark time however where the concept of mixing flour with anything and placing it in an oven would bring me out in hives, however I think … Continue reading SIMPLE WHITE LOAF
Sticky Toffee Pudding with Salted Butterscotch Sauce. Nursery food, to me, is something I often rely on when I’m feeling fragile. Trying to recreate something that is familiar to me from my childhood is an easy and familiar way of reminding myself how far I have come but still allowing me to remember the past … Continue reading STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING WITH SALTED BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE
Chocolate Chip & Salted Crisp Cookies. As the food contributor to Buzz Magazine, I am tasked monthly to come up with recipes that befit the feel of the times. There has been an extraordinary upscale in our weather offering lately – however I have no doubt that by the time this post is published, we’ll … Continue reading CHOCOLATE CHIP & SALTED CRISP COOKIE (BUZZ MAGAZINE)
Lemon & Thyme Mug Cake. I always thought the concept of ‘cutesie’ version of normal recipes were pointless. You see them all the time online where an everyday recipe is condensed down and done in a way that looks extremely tempting but you would never want to dedicate the time to accomplish. They’re good for … Continue reading LEMON & THYME MUG CAKE
Chocolate Orange & Rum Cake. In time for Easter, I want to present to you my lazy boy’s answer to chocolate cake. Seldom do I bake. I’m a very, very lazy baker. For as much as I love cooking, baking is something I sparsely have time for purely because of its precision. I won’t go … Continue reading CHOCOLATE ORANGE & RUM CAKE
I’ve made many a cheesecake in my Kitchen and despite there being 4, 200 something ways to do one – I always find myself slinking back to the one method. Naturally, this method is both the quickest and the easiest (pardon my impatience and idleness) but more so because I find this method to … Continue reading WHITE CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE WITH GINGER BISCUIT BASE
Chocolate & Hazelnut Cookies. While the concept of baking is a rather daunting one to a hap handed calamity like myself, the enticement of chocolate and hazelnut is more alluring than the daunt. It seems as though when it comes to baking cookies – or more so, eating them – my baking nervosa is trumped … Continue reading CHOCOLATE & HAZELNUT COOKIES
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 