Would you like to know how to make a cake that is all of the following? moist citrussy sweet – kids will like it …but with a bitter edge that takes it into grown-up territory high in protein (shrug… some people are into that) friggin’ easy – pretty much all you do is stir it … Continue reading
Continuing the Americana theme from my last post on Bowery to Williamsburg: it’s only a month ago that I had my aunty’s birthday celebration over at my house. Given that she had just come back from a holiday in the USA – Noo Yawk to be more precise – and her birthday falls in a … Continue reading
I’m trying to cook as many recipes from my Nigella cookbooks as possible, and started a series to cook through How To Be a Domestic Goddess some time ago. Well, it’s been on the back burner but here’s a review of her Salty Sweet Peanut Cookies. Nigella says that there’s “something about the contrast between … Continue reading
I’m always on the look out for gluten free recipes due to having a couple of friends who are coeliacs. In my travels across the internet (goodness, I sound like a wandering star) I have come across several mentions of putting chickpeas in brownies. Odd, I thought. That seems like a very strange thing to … Continue reading
This is a tale of an exciting tip-off. Mr B’s mother told me that in Eley Road, Blackburn South, there existed some sort of magical nut emporium where one could buy nuts at vastly cheaper prices than the supermarket. I filed this away as a “huh, that’s interesting, I didn’t think any of those shops … Continue reading
…otherwise known as what to do when you have Too Many Eggplants (aubergines, if you’re Nigella). I espied three forlorn looking eggplants on the reduced for quick sale rack at Maxi Foods and snapped them up because I’d been meaning to give baba ghanoush a go for ages. Smoky, silky, seductive eggplant dip… what’s not … Continue reading
Well, it doesn’t look like much, but I had a go at one of Jamie Oliver’s recipes from quite a while ago (the Cook With Jamie tome): Jools’ favourite Saturday Afternoon Pasta (the recipe is available here, and basically involves tuna, fennel, cinnamon, lemon and chilli in a tomato based sauce). This dish is not … Continue reading
