Do you have festive recipe that you make every year? Christmas baking starts early in our household when we make the Christmas cakes before the end of summer. We always follow this by making mincemeat for my serious mince pie addiction. But with Christmas just around the corner here are my personal favourite festive bakes and my recipe for a Baileys hot chocolate that might just get you on Santa’s naughty list.
Seasonal Cooking
My Bûche de Noël or Chocolate Yule Log
My Bûche de Noël or Chocolate Yule Log. One of the first things I can remember making every Christmas with my mum was a chocolate Yule log. Or to give it its rather grander name Bûche de Noël. Bûche de Noël is very popular in France, where it probably originated. The first recipes appeared in…
Seasonal Eating – Great Recipe Ideas to Cook this February
Seasonal Eating – Great recipe ideas to cook this February. After a really long slog January 2023 is finally behind us. The days are slowly beginning to lengthen and we can look forward to the early signs of spring. So what to eat? Well it’s definitely still time for lots of hearty dishes. My type of cooking. Lots of sustainable, seasonal soups and stews and proper puddings. But February is also time for some indulgent cooking for a loved one on St Valentines Day. Flipping up piles of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and perhaps even relaxing with a glass or two to celebrate Global Wine Day.
Winter Warmers – Five of my favourite Seasonal Recipes
Winter Warmers – Five of my favourite Seasonal Recipes. Big, hearty dishes are my style of cooking. Flavour packed soups and curries, slow-cooked stews and casseroles and proper puddings. When the weather is cold and wet is there anything better than a great Thai Green Curry or steaming Roasted Pepper and Tomato Soup? While perhaps…