I am a lover of quick breads  . . .  scones, tea loaves, baking powder biscuits, muffins, corn bread, etc.  I just love them.  One of the...

It's hard to believe that Easter is just two weeks away.   This year just seems to be evaporating.   I thought over these next few day...

I had not baked a pie in a very long time.   It was different when I had a large family to feed . . .  I often baked pies and tarts then,...

This recipe has been floating around for years.   Chocolate Sheet Cake.  Texas Sheet Cake, etc.   Call it what you will, it is all the sa...

I was recently sent this cutting edge cookery book on grains to review.  Entitled Grains as Mains and written by Laura Agar Wilson, it  f...

I was really wanting something light today.   We eat chicken a lot in our house. We only ever very rarely have another form of protein.  ...

I like to think that one of the most wonderful things about blogging is the fabulous people you meet via this medium.   Like minded peopl...

Rice wasn't something we ate a lot of when I was growing up.  My brother wouldn't eat it at all, my mother didn't like it eit...

I was recently sent a lovely Hamper from the people at Baking Mad and challenged to bake myself a loaf of bread!  I have a real fear of ...

I've been very lucky in my life to have been inspired and taught by remarkable women and cooks.   One of them was my good friend Leon...

I am somewhat ashamed to say that there were not a lot of homemade . . .  made from scratch . . .  cakes that didn't come from a mix ...

  ( source ) This Sunday is Mother's Day Mothering Sunday here in the UK.  I'm not sure why they choose to have it a couple of...

Today I tortured my pasta hating husband with some comfort food from my childhood, which rang all my bells, but left him feeling rather ...