Wahey it’s spring! Out and about by the river in South West London you can practically feel people slewing off the stresses of the long, cold winter. It took a…
At the start of April I took up a 30 day challenge to go without sugar (allowing myself only honey as a subsitute). Well, I’ve been dreaming of chocolate cake,…
This lovely healthy dinner began life under a cloud. I was in a bad mood having left Cornwall at 6am for a four and half hour drive to London, eaten…
This Easter I made a simnel cake and rather than bake the simple marzipan fruit cake, I had a go at expert baker Fiona Cairns’ recipe in the Easter edition…
Homemade granola is simple to make and I swear it’s cheaper than shop-bought. Once I’ve made a batch of this it lasts me for at least a week and how…
I went home to Cornwall a few weeks ago, and was very excited to cook with my parents’ new potatoes. When we bought our farm in the mid-90s one of…
I always used to avoid roasting a chicken. I think it’s because so often I have eaten unpleasant dried-out meat; the result of getting the timing wrong or simply overcooking…
I’m interrupting my latest discoveries series with a chocolate cake recipe. As far as I’m concerned, a brilliant chocolate cake makes a fantastic interruption to pretty much anything. This does…
It is rare to find a person who doesn’t like chocolate cookies. Having said that, I baked a batch recently and my flatmate – who says he doesn’t have a sweet…
This weekend I went home for Bonfire Night and to eat as much as humanly possible apparently. We arrived late on Thursday night after a long drive down from London…
Anna-Marie Julyan 