christmas cakes 2013

  Please excuse the chocolate dinosaur cakes. They were an experiment which clearly needs more work. No wonder the bloody creatures are extinct. I actually got round to doing my Christmas cakes reasonably early (for me) this year. And inspired by my friend Jane’s most excellent, if sporadic, food blog, I have done them slightly…

got a banana?

Spotted on Lakeland‘s site today, is a banana transporter. Transport your mid-morning snack to work or school without it looking as if it’s gone five rounds in a boxing ring! Why can’t you just transport it *in its skin*? And what if your banana is not the shape of this contraption.

pastry …

Pastry and I … we don’t get on. At all. I can barely manage with bought pastry, and if I try to make it myself it’s a disaster. I’ve tried everything – food processor, mixer, by hand. It all goes grey and shrinks, and is as unappetising as you might imagine. I’ve been hunting for…