Delicious and nutritious – ‘milk’ chocolate without the dairy – Pure Heavenly. While I aspire to healthy eating, I’m suspicious of food which claims to keep the taste and texture but remove the key ingredients. As something of a chocolate addict, the idea of a delicious low sugar, dairy-free (vegan) chocolate bar sounded just a […]
Going Bananas about Brownies
Chocolate, Rum and Banana Brownies. I am a big fan of the flavour combination of Chocolate, Rum and Banana. I’ve already made a muffin recipe along those lines, but I wanted to experiment and try making brownies because I rather like having a few in the freezer that I can pull out and defrost for […]
Chocolate and Rum Roast Banana Muffins
Chocolate banana muffins with rum. My excuse, which I’m sticking to, is that I was sent a new and rather smart muffin tin from George Wilkinson to review. So, of course, I needed to make muffins. And, since the point was to test whether or not the bakeware was genuinely non-stick, I needed to make […]
Basic Chocolate Mousse
Basic Chocolate Mousse – Ultimate Decadence and Unbelievable Simplicity: Easy recipes – those with one or two ingredients – are ultra hip at the moment. I’ve already written posts about one ingredient banana ice-cream, three ingredient pancakes and a whole range of simple soup recipes. And, while I haven’t yet posted them, I’ve been trying […]
Mexican World Tour – Simple Chicken Mole
Spicing it up with Simple Chicken Mole: A simple mole is something of a contradiction in terms. According to Wiki an authentic mole will have anything from 20 to over 30 ingredients and will comprise at least 3 different chillis, in addition to ingredients to create a balance of five different taste sensations, including hot […]
Win a Hamper of Baileys Chocolates for Christmas
Baileys Chocolates Christmas Giveaway This festive season I’m giving one lucky reader the chance to win a festive Baileys Chocolate gift hamper worth £50! Including the salted caramel chocolate range as well as the original, this hamper is the perfect grown-up indulgence for Baileys and chocolate lovers everywhere! In the hamper, you’ll find both the […]
Mary Arden’s Farm, the Tudor Kitchen and the Art of Chocolate.
The Tudor Kitchen at Mary Arden’s Farm and some Twenty-First Century Chocolate Making in Shakespeare’s England: Quintessentially English countryside and villages around Stratford-upon-Avon seems, in my fanciful eyes, remarkably unchanged since Tudor times. The narrow lanes lined with hedges, timber-framed houses, castles and manor houses in themselves are enough to take any visitor a step back history. […]
Make Mothers’ Day a Red Letter Day!
Unforgettable times together are just a mouse click away! If you’ve tried to buy a birthday card in recent weeks and found yourself up against displays filled with cards sporting floral baskets and bouquets of fifty shades of pink, you might well consider Mothers’ Day just a creation of commerce: yet another opportunity for […]
Cream-Cheese Brownies
Cream Cheese Brownies I can’t bake: I tried last month’s ‘We should cocoa’ challenge and it was too embarrassing even to post a photo! It did actually taste very good…my macaroon batter worked just fine. Unfortunately, my presentation skills didn’t…and I ended up with little green snail biscuits. This month’s challenge is just a little […]
Chocolate Cantuccini
Chocolate, almonds and a taste of Tuscany: One of my favourite occupations on my recent trip to Tuscany was nibbling on home made cantuccini with a glass of vin santo after a meal. The little biscuits which we sometimes mistakenly call biscotti over here, were packed with almonds and pleasantly crunchy. In Florence, we […]