This cake is like a lighter version of a Christmas fruit cake…many of the same ingredients, but without the stodge and the months of waiting.  It has all the same punchiness and body, but none of the heaviness. The usual medley of dried fruit is replaced by a single one – dried cranberries, plumped up in [...]

There are times when I hit a blogging brick wall, where there’s nothing left to say, or where the ideas and half-posts won’t form themselves properly. That happened this weekend, and after binning the third draft of something attempting to articulate what I think of minimum alcohol pricing (short answer: probably good, some reservations, could [...]

I’ve come close to attempting to make dry-cured sausages a couple of times, but never been able to get the right equipment together to make it happen.  The sticking point is controlling temperature and humidity properly, so that the sausage cures without developing any nasty surprises, like botulism. To get good results safely, I’d need [...]

Kimchi isn’t very common in the cities of Yorkshire. Not surprising, as there isn’t a large Korean population in these parts, but still no reason why their national dish shouldn’t get an airing. I’ve made kimchi once. So far. It seems to be one of those things with infinite variations, where no two batches are [...]