Eat well - travel often
I recently visited Greece again and stayed on the Athenian Riviera which is about a half hour away from the centre of Athens. One of the highlights was making Melomakarona a Greek Christmas Cookie with The Greek Key. Here is the recipe so you can […]
What is your ‘must have’ ingredient in your kitchen cupboards each Christmas? Often it is essential spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, cranberries or even a favourite bottle of gin! For many people Pickled Walnuts from Opies are an absolute must! I have been challenged by […]
My recipe for Banana Bread with Grenada Spices and Chocolate. I attended the 6th Grenada Chocolate Festival (this was my fifth time) and as part of the festival I was asked to do a demonstration to the festival guests. I decided to bake my favourite […]
Orange Polenta Cake As I was getting ready to leave Athens for the airport recently, my friend who was driving us to the airport arrived with a bag full of lemons and oranges from her back garden for me to carry home. How lovely to […]
Here is my recipe for Easy Peanut Butter Brownies, rich and chocolaty with the salty stripes of smooth peanut butter. Recently it was national chocolate day as well as national peanut butter day so naturally I decided to combine the two and make Peanut Butter […]
Moroccan Afternoon Tea at Leila Ealing. You may or not know but Afternoon Tea is my favourite meal! I love the classical, however it is a real treat to sample Afternoon Tea with a difference. Recently I was invited to try the Moroccan Afternoon Tea […]
Ren Behan, host of Polish Home Comforts, is a British citizen whose parents were both born in Poland and relocated to the UK before starting their family. Ren grew up with a very strong connection to her Polish heritage keeping it very much alive within […]
Scroll down for the recipe for my simple and tasty honey cake. Years ago I used to have a cafe on the weekends at a local environmental centre. I would make all of my cakes, jams, chutneys and more during the week. One winner was […]
Scroll down for a unique recipe from Crayfish Bay Organic Cocoa Farm for their chocolate cake. The first time I visited Crayfish Bay Organic Cocoa Farm on the north western side of the the island of Grenada I absolutely fell in love with it. I […]
Scroll down for my recipe for the best blood orange drizzle cake:- I saw some beautiful red skinned blood oranges recently. All I could think of was using my lemon drizzle cake recipe but substituting blood oranges for the lemons to make a blood orange […]
I have been baking my quick and easy fruit cake for years now and it never fails. This time of year we have a surplus of really nice, heritage, cooking apples at the end of the garden. Sometimes I make cakes with chopped apples or […]
I have mentioned before how versatile coconut oil is and I wanted to devote a whole post to telling you how I use it in my daily routine. I only buy good quality, organic coconut oil from a reputable supplier, usually VitaCoco especially as it […]
If you are new to my blog then let me tell you I love afternoon tea and if you are a treasured reader then you already know that! In fact afternoon tea is the one British tradition I would lobby Parliament to keep if it […]
I have a gorgeous rhubarb cluster growing at the allotment. This is now the very start of the short but fantastic English rhubarb season and anxious to sample I picked my first load last weekend. I have made a cake on this blog before called […]
Thanksgiving Pumpkin Tea Loaf What is Thanksgiving all about: When the Pilgrims landed in what is now known as The United States of America they were unprepared for the weather conditions ahead and for the fact that the food was completely different than what they […]
Towards the end of last year I was invited to the launch of the book ‘My Relationship with Food’ by Lisa Roukin (chef and teacher) and was given a copy of the book to review. I was early to the event and was privileged to […]