Just Baking

I think I might officially be old. To begin with, I turned 36 on Monday. Then, while I was standing in the sold-out venue of a Shins concert 2 days later, the following thoughts ran through my head: “Man, it’s after 10pm and they just started playing; it’s way past my bedtime”, and “What could […]

And this week’s Unusual Ingredient of the Week is Agave Nectar or Syrup as it is less romantically known over here in England.  As someone who suffers from food intolerances, I am always trying out new ingredients that might make life a little bit more comfortable for me, without compromising the flavour.  Obviously this is […]

The French are charmingly smug about their devotion to red wine, Gitanes and food cooked in goose fat.  A study of 34,000 Frenchmen, conducted in 1997, indicated that a glass or two or red wine each day reduced mortality rates by a startling 30%.  This is despite heavy consumption of saturated fats, stressful working conditions, […]

Sometimes an ingredient has been sitting for so long in your cupboard that it becomes as familiar as that little spider that made its’ home in the vent in the bathroom or the pile of bricks on the draining board that have been sitting there, just waiting to be used, for months now.  You look […]