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Category: Recipes

  • Chocolate Hot Cross Muffins

    My Easter themed baking for the year – a lovely fruity chocolate muffin, with a cross on the top. I used this recipe almost exactly, although I used a plain stiff white icing to form the crosses (just icing sugar and water) rather than white chocolate. My attempt at melting the chocolate was a terrible…

  • Carrot Cake Muffins

    I think these are the loveliest carrot muffins I’ve ever made – soft, moist, and delicious with or without the icing. I altered a recipe in Penguin’s Muffin Bible, and was extremely pleased with the results. ingredients: 1 3/4 cups plain flour 2/3 cup brown sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2…

  • Chicken Diane

    I’m not sure how the delicious magazine I took this recipe from managed to make the chicken look so attractive. I really enjoyed this, but unfortuately it didn’t photograph particularly well. The amounts are for 4 people. ingredients: 700g potatoes, peeled and cut into small cubes 30g butter 2 tbs olive oil 4 chicken breast…

  • Blueberry Muffins

    At a loss as to what I felt like for breakfast one Sunday morning, I whipped up these blueberry muffins from a new faithful book, The Muffin Bible published by Penguin. Sweet, light and with deliciously soft spots of blueberry dotted through them, they were the perfect start to the day. A very speedy recipe.…

  • Roast Pumpkin

    Roast pumpkin is one of my favourite foods – either on its own, accompanying a roast or a platter of other vegies, or as a versatile ingredient in a variety of recipes.  I leave the skin on, and bake it for a long time, so that it becomes soft and edible.  I use it on pizza, combined…

  • Pink Birthday Cake

    For someone who likes both chocolate cake and the colour pink – a chocolate birthday cake with pink icing and pink cream. I used my usual birthday cake recipe of chocolate fudge cake, and then made the pink icing. for the icing: 125 g butter 2 1/2 cups icing sugar 2 tablespoons hot water pink…

  • Chilled Peanut Noodle Salad

    I was entranced by the description and pictures of this gorgeous chilled Szechuan peanut noodle salad at Passionate Eater. I adore peanut flavoured noodly things, and this versatile salad looked like the perfect thing for easily portable weekday lunches. And it’s delicious – a lovely savoury/sweet peanut flavour, the crunchiness of the grated carrot and…

  • Deformed Severed Finger Cookies

    Well, these were a bit of a failure. If you take a look at Domestic Goddess (where I found the recipe), you’ll see what I was aiming for. Unfortunately, I decided not to bother with all that waiting around for butter to soften, and used a soft butter spread instead. Whoops. I think this was…

  • Imam Bayildi

    It’s a pity that I can’t photograph cooked eggplant and make it look pretty, because this is one gorgeous tasting dish. I’ve always wanted to try imam bayildi – that description of the imam fainting when he ate it made it sound pretty fabulous. And so it is, probably because of all the oil –…

  • Vampire Cupcakes

    I saw these cupcakes at Baking Bites, and couldn’t resist them – the fabulous bleeding vampire bites in the soft white icing. They were rather fiddly (as you might guess from the long list of instructions), especially making a big batch, and the icing takes quite some time. Admittedly, it’s all time spent standing still…