My Favourite Cheesecake
Cheesecake is a staple in this house. It is present at tea parties, summer gatherings, and all celebrations. While I have been making the same recipe for years, this year I felt compelled to alter…
Cheesecake is a staple in this house. It is present at tea parties, summer gatherings, and all celebrations. While I have been making the same recipe for years, this year I felt compelled to alter…
Something happens to me around festivals and holidays. I become fixated on (a) seasonal baked good(s) and transform my kitchen into a gift making factory. Often I am not even sure who will be the…
There seems to be two camps of salad makers and eaters out there. Many a debate has been had in my kitchen between those who build a bowl or plate with larger leaves to show…
I would love to tell you about this cake’s nostalgic and well adapted history, but I can’t. Nigella’s Chocolate Olive Oil Cake is perfect. It is the only dessert (apart from Aunt Jeanette's Chocolate Meringues)…
This sauce is the perfect accompaniment to salmon burgers, smoked, cured or roast fish, as a dressing for a hearty salad or potato salad or as an emergency dip.
I never miss the opportunity for a tea party. This weekend is not only the BIG Jubilee, but it also almost coincides with a birthday in this house for the one whose favourite cake happens…
I have been heavily nesting. Baby no. 4 is due next weekend, and somehow it only dawned on me on our return from Suffolk that the arrival was fairly imminent.
These soaked overnight oats are my go-to breakfast. While they are traditionally eaten as a summer porridge, mornings here are chaotic at best. Getting four boys out of the door on time for school renders…
This was a week of firsts and to celebrate I made Upside Down Ginger Cake, an old favourite from one of the many recipe scrapbooks started all those years ago before the internet. With all…
The sugar department of the kitchen is where my American parentage is felt loud and proud, ignoring any trace of British accent or London upbringing. Many summer months during formative years spent on the other side…
What’s my culinary solution to the holiday madness? Ginger cake. Versatile and deeply nostalgic, a moist molasses-y ginger-y slice is as irresistible with a mid morning cup of coffee as it is for a teatime…
This recipe is dedicated to my sister. For years she has asked me to make a chocolate honey cake instead of the regular version for our annual Rosh Hashanah feast, because ultimately everyone loves a…
When it comes to cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving I am a purist. This makes me an anomaly in my family, for whom Thanksgiving is the most important day of the year, trumping every holiday or…
It’s hard to believe that 12 months have passed since deciding to publicly document my kitchen forays, while simultaneously suffering with morning sickness. In hindsight, I think only a person not of sound mind, possessing…