pineapple upside down cake

This always seems to me like a very 80s thing, and indeed I got the recipe from a cookbook printed in 1977 (The Dairy Book of Home Cooking). We had half a pineapple left from making pork and pineapple, and decided an upside down cake would be a good thing to do with it.  It…

when the going gets tough

The tough get … cooking. perlmonger has been up to his eyes today configuring servers; that’s not something that I can really help with, so I had a cooking frenzy. I made Some soda bread for lunch – my Irish grandmother made a loaf of this every morning, and it’s delicious. I actually use a…