Clementine and cranberry upside-down cake
Regard the humble cranberry. Just like that plain Jane in your university history course who seemed to have nothing of any interest to share with the world, but who was actually a pole dancing rock...
View ArticlePomegranate pavlova shots – and ten years of Cooksister
When I was seven, I still lived next door to my best friend Andréa and we often met up where her garden wall met my driveway to shoot the breeze or plan our next play date. I still remember the day...
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Blood orange posset
As many of my food-minded readers might know, Saturday 14 March was Pi day – officially a day to celebrate the mathematical constant (the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter), but...
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Individual chocolate cherry trifles to celebrate 11 years of blogging
Eleven years ago… an unknown student called Mark Zuckerberg went on TV to talk about his little-known website called The Facebook (which only had about 100,000 subscribers at the time) 52.2 million...
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Salted caramel and toasted pecan ice-cream sundaes
Fear. We are all familiar with its unpleasant mouth-drying, heart-palpitating visits, and with its capacity to severely limit our activities. It can range from an uncomfortable passing sensation to a...
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Rhubarb and strawberry galettes
I have often wondered why I can remember almost nothing about all the trigonometry, chemistry and geometry that I learnt in high school, but yet I can give you a word-perfect rendition of all the...
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8 Rhubarb recipes you need to try this winter
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. So wrote one of my favourite poets, T.S. Eliot. But I’m afraid I beg...
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Plum and peach flapjack crumble [GF]
If I were to ask you: “Have you ever had a drupe?”, would you: a) tell me you’d never been so offended in your life and storm off in a huff; b) tell me that there are little blue pills you can take...
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Sticky spiced plum upside-down cake and 16 years of blogging
At my 30th birthday party – a fabulous 1980s-themed affair to which I wore my 80s goth uniform of a black leather mini, a Sisters of Mercy T-shirt and black lipstick (!) – I made a speech thanking my...
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Rustic blood orange and pistachio galettes
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