Is it even possible to have a single favourite cookbook? A specialised cookbook about chocolate is in a whole different category to a culinary encyclopedia or a baking book or an Italian cookbook… and I have favourites in all these…
Your shopping list… 1 1/2 cups cream 1 1/2 cups milk (I used low-fat, but I gather one is supposed to use whole milk) 1 vanilla bean 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup good cocoa 2 large eggs + 1 egg…
Welcome to my first blog post. Actually, in a little while it may stop looking like my first blog post, because I have all sorts of recipes and articles squirrelled away that I intend to put here eventually, and I…
I thought about finishing this on Christmas Eve, but really, the whole point of Advent is that it leads up to Christmas. Anyway, as I will be busily singing descants at midnight tonight, I’m writing this early, and as you…
Very nearly at the end of this Advent journey, and I’ve been saving this one because the words deserve to be heard the day before Christmas. (…though now that I’ve looked up the song on Wikipedia, I find that there…
Today’s carol is going to surprise anyone who is familiar with my usual tastes in music. The composer is actually younger than I am and this piece of music may even have been composed in the current millennium, which makes…
