Recipes

I present to you the blood orange tart and my tart case fiasco!

Forgive the long time it’s taken to make this post, but after making it and having an absolute drama with the pastry, I haven’t been too eager to report back to the world. Well, I was using an Epicurious recipe, what’s the problem, [...]



Okay, I did actually make the tart today, but I can’t for the life of me seem to take any decent pictures of it, so you’re going to have to wait till tomorrow when I’ve got some lovely natural light to help photograph it! And to make up for it in the meantime, I present [...]



HAH! I am the funniest ever.

*hears the bells of corny-ness pealing in the distance*

Okay, I’ll shaddup now. Well, with the bad lyrics anyway.

The blood orange curd is still sitting in my fridge, and the butter has been put back in the fridge. I’ll do it tomorrow, I promise. And whilst you ‘tsk tsk’ away, let [...]



Whilst that is one of my favourite Tori Amos songs, it is actually blood oranges that are the theme of today’s post. You see, after seeing the ‘blood orange’ featuring in the world of blogging, I was intruiged and wanted to find out more as I’d never actually seen one before! Egads, you may say, [...]



Hopefully those of you in the rest of the world are unfamiliar with the title of this post - it hearkens back to a particularly successful and scarily well-known ‘Chicken Tonight’ simmer sauces put out by Continental/Unilever. Very unlike anything from a store-bought bottle of sauce from the supermarket is my mother’s chilli chicken stir-fry [...]