by Valerie | Mar 8, 2015 | Recipes
Inspired by a wonderful quiche that a workmate’s mother used to make on a regular basis, I decided that now I have left work I would have a go myself. I was going to buy a ready made pastry case as I hate the mess of rolling out pastry, but couldn’t find...
by Valerie | Mar 4, 2015 | Recipes
Inspired by an ex-colleague’s Facebook posting this morning saying she did her first bake since giving birth in January, I decided to bake some Lemon Drizzle muffin sized cakes, instead of the planned Lemon Drizzle slab cake made with lemons left over from...
by Valerie | Apr 20, 2014 | Recipes
It was a bit late for my cookery contest at work, but I got this Simnel Cake recipe from BBC Food Recipes and baked it on Easter Sunday. Overall marks out of 10 = 9.5Ingredients For the almond paste:- 250g/9oz caster sugar 250g/9oz ground almonds 2 free-range eggs,...
by Valerie | Jan 26, 2014 | Recipes
Making cupcakes should be easy.Heat oven to 180deg (or 170 deg in the case of my useless oven). Take 110g salt free butter, 110g castor sugar, 2 medium eggs and 110g self-raising flour with 1 tsp baking powder. Do what you are supposed to do with a Kenwood Chef or...
by Valerie | Jul 13, 2013 | Recipes
Courtesy of ReallyNiceRecipes.com although I modified the recipe. It was delicious and moist. Just to prove it wasn’t a fluke, I made another on 21st April 2014, Easter Monday, and put it in my freezer for my kitchen and garden warming party. This one was...
by Valerie | Jul 8, 2013 | Recipes
Now for my competition entry. The surprise is that I actually have made this cake at all, with my oven cooking at an unreliable temperature, and with me not being a domestic goddess at all.As I made the cake on Wimbledon Finals Day, I knew I wanted to make my cake...
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