Kitchen Diaries Challenge 2013

Please don't think we are lushes - a high proportion of the recent postings have been for cocktail recipes, but it IS Christmas!  This ...

On Christmas Day, I cut the legs off the turkey to speed up the cooking time (it was lovely and juicy as a consequence) and sacrificed one o...

We want something piquant on Boxing Day after all the richness of Christmas Day eating.  I also don't want to spend too much time cookin...

Few recipes to blog about at this time of year - it is a time for traditional cooking and you don't need ME to tell you how to make roas...

A delicious lemony drink, this, and one we first had at the now defunct Rainbow Room bar on the 65th floor of the Rockefeller Centre in New ...

I was too late to make a Chrsitmas Cake this year - don't know why, I suppose I just got fed up after the mammoth Christmas Pudding sess...

I never eat in front of the telly normally, but it is the final of Strictly Come Dancing tonight (go Matt!) and so it is allowed!  These chi...

I had cut an Acorn Squash into wedges, drizzled them with olive oil and garam masala and roasted them for supper, to accompany some other cu...

A recipe, this, from Nigella Express .  When I was looking for it online, I came across some episodes from 'Nigella Bites' on Youtub...

I love taking home-made soup into work for lunch during the winter - so much more satisfying than a 'cardboard' sandwich and a packe...

I know - another squash recipe!  They arrive regularly in our veg box, and it is an (enjoyable) challenge to find new ways to use them.  Th...

Sometimes the simple things in life are the best.  Another perishingly cold day today.  After waiting at the bus stop for 20 minutes and wal...

Well, it IS cold outside.  Potroast of beef followed by a Bread and Butter Pud, puts hairs on your chest.  A pud just made for Paddington Be...

The cold weather continues, and so it is a good time to capitalise on long, slow cooking of cheaper cuts of meat, which provide flavour.  La...

We have so much squash and pumpkin in the house at the moment, and I am constantly looking for new ways to use it.  Pumpkin/squash takes to ...

Is this the best cocktail in the world? In the Universe?  I think so.  It is simply the best drink ever - and yes, it doesn't even have ...

These have been around the scene since Delia showed us all how to make them in her Christmas book - the simplest thing in the world, but so ...

A Nigel Slater recipe, from his stunning book, 'Tender - vol 1'.  Not a cake made with flour, sugar, etc, but a baked dish, a gratin...