Kitchen folklore will tell you that the first pancake you fry – regardless of your skill level – will always be shit. I can testify that this is often the truth. Frying pancake batter, you need at least one or two crap ones out of the way first so that you can get used to … Continue reading CHOCOLATE BUCKWHEAT PANCAKES WITH ANISE POACHED PEACHES
Okay. So here we go. There are some recipes I have that I feel are useful to have in the back of your brain for when you want them. This is a recipe I demand you have in the back of your freezer for when you NEED it. Which will be always and forevermore once … Continue reading DARK CHERRY & MASCARPONE FREEZER CAKE
Okay. So we’re approaching the beginning of the middle of the end of this novel we call Covid-19 and I for one am furiously licking my thumb to turn the page. I don’t care about spoilers. I want this book done. This does mean that eventually we will be released into the wild and we … Continue reading TURKISH DELIGHT ETON MESS
This recipe to me is the epitome of taking something good and making it even better. I remember the first time I made these little millionaire squares. It was an optimistic Spring day and my friends and I decided to have a picnic. I wanted to make something I could box up and pick at … Continue reading PEANUT BUTTER & SALTED CARAMEL MILLIONAIRE SHORTBREAD
The pyramid scheme of salted sweets is tantalising. The triangulated experience of combining salt, sugar and fat allows you to experience all three properties for their own individual components (spiky, saccharine and silky) whilst still being able to enjoy the unification of all three together. Getting the balance of all three is important because if … Continue reading SALTED CHOCOLATE, CRANBERRY & CASHEW FUDGE
Nothing brings me more joy than pondering what I’m going to eat next. If you ever catch me staring wistfully into the distance, trust I’m not lost in the heady throes of romance or thinking deeply about the fabric of life… … I’m literally just thinking about what I’m going to eat next. Usually when … Continue reading HOT CROSS BUN & BUTTER PUDDING
Okay, so here we go. A gluten free cookie that is still fudgy but remains crumbly. It’s a mythical culinary unicorn. I’ve seen many boxed GF cookies in my time (I am not intolerant, I just have access to people that are) and I’m not going to lie, the dusty, crumbly disks that masquerade as … Continue reading PEANUT BUTTER, WHITE CHOCOLATE & CHERRY COOKIES (GF)
In life, there are many things we need. Yeah we need water and oxygen and all that nonsense, but a quick pancake recipe that sounds more romantic than it is? It’s definitely one of them. We’ve all woken up bolt-upright Dracula style like “PANCAKES!!” of a morning, haven’t we? Just me. Okay. I have several … Continue reading CHERRY ROSE PANCAKES
I had a bad week last week. In fact, I believe the country did. The comfort siren call of my Kitchen was the succour I needed in such a time of disappointment and all I could think of was one word. Cookies. I used to be a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan (I was … Continue reading “BUFFY COOKIES” / CHOCOLATE CHIP & OLIVE OIL COOKIES
You know what? Every now and then there is a cake that after you take one bite, it makes you put one hand in the sky and do a jig because the spirit just caught you. Just then and there. Jigging in your spot. Be damned anyone who’s watching. This cake is that. Allow me … Continue reading MUD CAKE
MIKEY AND THE KITCHEN. 