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I have never found chocolate cake as good as my mum’s. Actually it’s my grandmother’s recipe, and a great one at that.
I didn’t know until I asked mum for the recipe that it’s a “boiled” cake. You don’t actually boil it to cook it - but you simmer some of the ingredients before making the final mix. Continue reading ‘Chocolate cake like mum makes’
Our household effects recently arrived from Canada and in one of the boxes was a DVD containing raw footage of a previously unseen CTK instalment, filmed back in Edmonton earlier this year.
I had gone shopping on my way home from work and grabbed a few random things in the supermarket, hoping that Lenny would be able to make sense of it all, culinary whiz that she is. But I’d forgotten she was off playing volleyball and I was to be left to my own devices in the kitchen.
Just what I was aiming for, I’m not sure, but it all ended pretty miserably, especially for the two pieces of cod that had the misfortune to be plucked from the supermarket chiller cabinet by my maladroit hands that evening. Continue reading ‘The lost cod episode’
Let the jelly roll: Swiss roll recipe from Waz’s Nana
Duck in for Christmas
Our roast chicken recipe: hot and fast
No-fuss fish pie
Classic bolognese
Portuguese custard tarts (pasteis de nata)
About the soufflé
One chicken, three ways
Bones about it: Beef stock from scratch
Heart-melting chocolate pudding
Loaf to admit failure
Going, going, tarragon chicken
How To Eat An Island
Coffee, Toffee, Banoffee Pie - Vol. 1
Rice to the occasion