06/01/2017
CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE WITH PISTACHIO BUTTERCREAM
Chocolate Pound Cake with Pistachio Buttercream
We agreed, ‘No Gifts’ this year. I still traipsed through the shops looking for something small to commemorate the occasion. Nine years, is nine years I thought, it has weight and merit…
05/31/2017
A CHOCOLATE CELEBRATION
A Chocolate Celebration
TheScotsman and I have just celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary. It was the first time we were together on the day, in the last six years. On our second anniversary, our last one together, I ...
05/30/2017
ICE CREAM BAR LOLLIE
Ice Cream Bar Lollie
Kitchenware shops seem to have a commanding pull on my person and my purse. I don’t really protest too much when my feet unconsciously direct me through their doors but The Scotsman would. At…
05/29/2017
CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER CUPS
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Tradition and I have had an off and on relationship. There were grudging compromises, but more often I parted victoriously from its company. Going against the grain meant that I got to do things my...
05/28/2017
SILVER LININGS
Silver Linings
An ice lolly was the only consolation for yet another brutally boring, insipid day at school. I was definitely an outcast, a bit weird (ok, a lot!), sharp tongued and moody. Don't think I contribut...
05/27/2017
CHOCOLATE KRANTZ CAKE
Chocolate Krantz Cake
It’s no surprise that I am a fan of taking it slowly in the kitchen. Once the hideously boring, but necessary chores are done in the morning (laundry, making up bed, tidying up the breakfast …
05/27/2017
CHOCOLATE AND HAZELNUT ROLLS
Chocolate and Hazelnut rolls
The cloud was thick, low and heavy. A baking funk is definitely not a nice place to be in. The mind was raging but the body was bailing. A fleeting moment of determination sees me try to get going,...
05/26/2017
FEEL BETTER BROTH – INDIAN PENICILLIN
Feel Better Broth - Indian Penicillin
There are two things in the world that's worth falling sick for. This broth is one of them, the other being someone else making it, just for you. If however, you do not have persons whose benevolen...
05/26/2017
SEA SALTED CARAMELS
Sea Salted Caramels
You could say that when it comes to candy, my childhood was deprived . Sure, I had halwas, ladoos (sweet lentil balls), gulab jamuns (fried sweet milk balls, soaked in a thick, rose water flavoured...
05/26/2017
365 DAYS
365 Days
Commitment to a project for the long haul wasn’t a skill dished out while I was in the queue. My past seems to be peppered with half finished cross stitch patterns, incomplete piano exams and…
05/26/2017
WELSHCAKES
Welshcakes
I love cooking for my lovely parents-in-law. I would go so far as to say that they are the easiest people I have ever cooked for. I am at my most relaxed when making a meal for them and they are a...
05/26/2017
STICKY GINGERBREAD…BRING ON THE SEASON!
STICKY GINGERBREAD...bring on The Season!
Moving to Doha automatically means that December comes with a rather staid, its-another-ordinary-month sort of feeling. True, I escape the 'seasonal' songs that radio stations and shops in the U.K ...