May 14th, 2013

Last week I made a really delicious Tomato and Garlic Focaccia and posted images of it on Facebook – I was asked if I could write a tutorial and share the recipe, so here goes – it’s super easy and you end up with something really really tasty!

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June 8th, 2012

I’ve been doing a lot of baking lately and the other day made a really lovely rhubarb pudding cake. I picked a load of rhubarb from our clifftop and filled the fridge with it. Rather than make the usual rhubarb crumbles and stick them in the freezer (although I will be making a few of these with the rhubarb that’s left), I was glad to discover a recipe for a rhubarb cake in Pam Corbin’s River Cottage Handbook about Cakes. It’s a really tasty cake to eat with custard – give a go…

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August 2nd, 2011

A while back I had a stab at making sourdough bread and it was quite successful at first and then the temperatures in the house plummetted and it was so hard and took so long to get any dough to rise that I gave up.

Now we have a spanking new kitchen and the house is a bit more insulated, things are on the up with regards to breadmaking.

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August 2nd, 2010

Recently we spent a whole weekend clearing the patch of ground on the other side of the garden wall. This patch has always been covered in nettles, goosegrass and ivy which would creep over the wall and invade the garden. It also wasn’t nice to walk down the path at the bottom of the garden and have to avoid being stung by nettles whenever we wanted to appreciate the view and look down to the beach.

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July 28th, 2010

Recently I blogged about making Jam for my friend Matt, for him to sell and raise money for a film he’s making. We’ve named it Dummy Jam as it takes after the man who inspired it – a deaf Scotsman name James Duthie, fondly known as Dummy Jim, who cycled to the Arctic Circle in 1951. It will be on sale at long last this weekend at the Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival and I’ve just designed the labels and printed them out.

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