I take Easter, and particularly Good Friday, very seriously. It’s not just because of the sheer number of professional commitments I have around Easter (and Good Friday is pretty much the peak of these, as I tend to have a…
We had our work Christmas party today. Well, one of them. When you work with two highly sociable Divisions, you don’t just get one work Christmas party – I believe that my official count this year is a modest six,…
It’s not actually possible to say the phrase ‘banana buns’ without developing an attack of the Muppets, really. Seriously, try it. You’ll be humming the Muppet theme before you know it. Anyway. This recipe, like so many banana recipes, came…
After I made those cinnamon scrolls last week and bragged about them to the internet, I had a few requests for the recipe. Well, I can’t give you the recipe, because for once in my life, I was actually following…
This is based on a recipe for Heidelberg rye bread from Bread: The Universal Loaf, by Tamara Milstein. I was going to make the actual recipe, but first I found myself mostly out of molasses, so I had to use…
This bread is a cross between several different recipes, necessitated by the fact that my pantry does not currently contain polenta and that it does contain both marmalade and orange powder, not to mention cranberries. Also, I like putting oats…
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Apparently, the first week of work was rather more overwhelming than I expected, because while I felt totally fine at work, I was remarkably disinclined to cook when I got home each night this…
I work in a Medical Research Institute, and the nature of research is that people travel a lot for their careers. My current Divisions include scientists and students from France, Germany, Switzerland, Algeria, China, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, The…
I was hoping to write more here while I was on holidays, but the combination of my usual December activities, plus confectionery, plus the funeral, all followed up with several days of drainingly hot weather have left me more exhausted…
As I type this, my sourdough starter has been living with me for eight days, and it is not dead yet! On the contrary, it’s sitting on a bench in the kitchen, looking hopeful, because tomorrow is baking day. I…
