Right, confession time. This was meant to be a Generic Lazy Blog Post. Oh come on, you know the sort, especially if you write a blog yourself. Sometimes us bloggers hit a brick wall and just don’t know what to write about. We just scratch and scrabble around for something vaguely interesting to cook or [...]
This last week or so have been quite tough, and the coming ones aren’t shaping up particularly well, either. What to do? Well, baking a cake often helps. So, that’s what I did today, cashing in half a day’s holiday tucked away for a rainy day and heading off home in the wind and through [...]
Magic Rock Brewing Co. is a fairly new brewery based in Huddersfield. Their aim is to brew big, modern beers and they do that very well indeed. First up is Rapture, a huge red beer with the capacity to scare the living daylights out of mere mortals. It’s a monster of a beer that grabs [...]
These biscuits didn’t really come out as they were intended. They should have been thinner and much more fragile, but the slightly thicker and heavier versions I ended up with have a good heft to them. They’re not what they were meant to be, but they taste good and that’s all that really matters. Beat [...]
If you’ve read around this blog a bit, you’ll know that I’m not in the game of gratuitous self-promotion, but the other week, I astonished myself and the rest of the family by making an utterly sublime vanilla ice cream. I know it was good because the whole lot disappeared over the course of a couple [...]