Each December when I bake lebkuchen from my maternal grandmother’s straightforward recipe, the scent of spices as I mix the dough transports me back to the wonderful family Christmases of my childhood. These are a variation of a German biscuit, and similar to gingerbread. It’s fun to ice the shapes different colours & decorate with silver … More My Gran’s Lebkuchen Recipe
Glühwein is one of our favourite drinks for a sociable, chilly evening, and tastes especially good when sitting outside around a fire, as we did tonight. With the winter solstice fast approaching, and the evenings long and cold, we’ve taken to making our Glühwein in an enamel kettle, so it can sit keeping happily warm … More Glühwein recipe for a winter’s evening
To my intermittent bursts of blogging, I am going to add a recipe! I made a new variation on this soup last night – it’s a recipe I love to play with and adapt – and somehow felt like sharing 🙂 The fairly subtle curry powder, apple and orange rind add a wonderful, warming depth … More Butternut Soup Comfort
I have found myself in something of a haze again recently, unable to structure coherent thoughts, let alone articulate them, although an enormous amount has been happening in various aspects of my life, including returning to work today for the first time in a quarter of a year – a significant milestone on the road … More Blueberry Cheesecake Comfort
A few weeks ago I promised a friend that I would write up a recipe for blueberry pancakes, which I adapted from a thoroughly indulgent recipe in a wonderful book called Dishy Desserts, given to me by my sister Tabitha many years ago. The original recipe included cream, which while delicious was just too rich … More Blueberry Pancakes
A year ago, I was regularly emailing recipes and photographs of new dishes tried or created to interested family and friends. It was a creative and fun exercise, which interlinked with a recipe book I was putting together, mostly for my own use. The person who most regularly responded, either to say she had made … More Blueberry Comfort
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