For too long has my Complete Works of Shakespeare languished, lonely and unloved, waiting in vain for our next reading to occur! I do love our Shakespeare feasts, but they are quite fiendishly difficult to organise – as soon as…
Tag: cranberries
Recipe: Chocolate Caramel with Chocolate Chips and Cranberries
Yes! I finally got this recipe to work! It did still turn out a little chewier than I meant it to, mostly because I was at home alone while cooking it, and the saucepan is large and heavy, and started…
Recipe: Somewhat Healthy Tropical Chocolate Crackles
I’ve been sick for the last few days, that awful, depressing kind of virus where bodily aches and pains are joined by a general feeling of misery and hopelessness. Not fun. Normally, I’d solace this with soup, but I tried…
Recipe: Orange and Cranberry Marmalade Bread
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…
Recipe: Golden Snake Bread for Chinese New Year
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…
Recipe: Half-baked Fruity Muesli
I just couldn’t resist the pun in that title. Sorry. But it really is half baked, because I did toast about half of what went into this muesli while leaving the rest untoasted. The reason for this is that we…
Recipe: Oaty Chocolate Cranberry Biscuits
This recipe is a riff on my favourite choc-chip cookie recipe, with nods to Tessa Kiros’s recipe for choc-chip cranberry cookies and to the cranberry oatmeal cookie mix I get at the markets sometimes. (It works even better if you…