Let’s get ready to rum baba!

Published on February 26, 2013 in Cakes, breads and baking, Christmas recipes, Cooking videos, Desserts and puddings, Failures and redemptions, Favourites, French traditional and Video recipes. 2 Comments

Rum baba, aka baba au rhum, is a sticky-sweet dessert made from a yeast-based cake soaked in, you guessed it, rum – after first being soused in a simple sugar syrup.

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We first tried rum baba in Montreal at a restaurant called L’Express when we were Crash Testing our way across Canada. After that we tracked it down in a few other restaurants in different parts of the world, but none of them were quite the same as that first baba, so we decided that one day we’d have to try making it ourselves. Continue reading ‘Let’s get ready to rum baba!’

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Bangers and mash recipe – with video

Published on June 21, 2012 in Cooking techniques explained, Cooking videos, English traditional, Favourites, Pork, Potatoes, Quick and easy and Video recipes. 2 Comments


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Our cooking method for sausages adds extra flavour to the sometimes ho-hum “bangers and mash” by creating a chunky onion and tomato gravy out of the pan juices. Along with the obligatory mashed potato, this dish really does need some greens as well – green beans or broccoli, plunged into boiling water for just a few minutes. Perfect.

This is a reasonably quick dish – suitable for a weeknight dinner. It’s easy to scale up the recipe for extra guests – say, two sausages minimum per person. Continue reading ‘Bangers and mash recipe – with video’

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