Everyone needs a few reliable loaf cake recipes. The ones you look to when those bananas in the fruit bowl are on the turn, or you require something quick for that afternoon catch up with family or friends...
Read MoreBrioche Maurice
There are a number of advantages to modern technology: a wealth of knowledge at our fingertips, the opportunity to connect with almost anyone, anywhere in the world. It opens doors to avenues that before we wouldn't have known even existed. However there are also a number of disadvantages: being too connected, the inability to switch off, properly socialise, or be attentive to any one thing for any decent length of time. But perhaps worst of all...
Read MoreAutumn pie
The leaves have coloured and fallen, a cold wind gusts from the south. The once fresh and crisp blue morning fades to grey as the dark clouds roll in to deliver their sudden, heavy downpour. And so it is that we retreat indoors to the comforts of a warm stove, happy in the knowledge that it is now, undeniably, pie weather...
Read MoreMay Nosh
Comforting soups, light lunches and j-chokes aplenty - a quick look at what else has been cooking in the K&S kitchen this month.
Read MoreDigging Violet
The Violet Bakery Cookbook is definitely one of the more exciting new baking titles to have graced my shelves in recent times. As in, not just that I want to make everything in it but that I have already read each section in its entirety, many, many times...
Read MoreBitter citrus
As I journey further into making a career out of food, of considerable concern is my (self-proclaimed) inability to discern and verbalise flavours. I'm sure it's not nearly as bad as I think and is a limitation that will, of course, resolve with time and practice, but I sometimes wonder...
Read MoreA babka moment
Sometimes the indulgence is not so much in the eating, but rather in the act itself. To take time and just stop. To not rush or do ten things at once, but just sit and watch the steam as it swirls gracefully up from your coffee cup...
Read MoreGazing at stars
Like most bakes it started in a fairly roundabout way. Some chaps on a podcast I regularly listen to were discussing a hilarious, Mary Shelley-style mock of stargazy pie involving frankfurters and blueberries, and while I could picture exactly where they were headed I'd never before heard of, let alone eaten, stargazy pie. Time to remedy that...
Read MoreApril Nosh
Warming soups, bread & scones, and a nice little array of ice creams - a quick round up of some of the recipes I've been enjoying throughout April in this week's, The Monthly Nosh...
Read MoreA piece of autumn
Most of my time in the kitchen is fuelled by inspiration—the sudden abundance of a seasonal ingredient, or newly-discovered dish or technique—but not this week. For once my enthusiasm had come up short, and even my extensive "must try" list failed to reinvigorate a somewhat weary head. All I knew was I felt like cake, and so I made one...
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