Home Away from Home:Quick Ginger Prawn Salad

Home Away from Home:Quick Ginger Prawn Salad

Half term holiday activities and a quick salad reminiscent of our visit to the Geffrye Museum of the Home in Shoreditch, London. Beautiful photos if I must say so myself!

Plum Crazy

Plum Crazy

A typical Australian dessert or tea cake, combining a cake base with fresh fruit and a crumble topping. Serves 12 to 24 depending on the size of the portions.

It’s a Pitty: Pitta Bread, Hummous and Baba Ganoush

It’s a Pitty: Pitta Bread, Hummous and Baba Ganoush

A real Middle-Eastern treat: crudites with pitta bread, humus and baba ghanoush, all made in the Thermomix!

Perfect Parfait: Heston Blumenthal’s Parfait of Chicken Livers

Perfect Parfait: Heston Blumenthal’s Parfait of Chicken Livers

One of my favourite starters or light lunches is a deeply flavoured chicken liver parfait, full of thyme and with an underlying taste of port. Heston Blumenthal’s Parfait of Chicken Livers recipe, which I tore out of The Sunday Times magazine way back on October 30, 2005, is my idea of a perfect parfait.

The North Yorkshire Chronicles, Part Three: Steam, Shore, Yorkshire Pudding and More

The North Yorkshire Chronicles, Part Three: Steam, Shore, Yorkshire Pudding and More

I have had two straight weeks of catering and if I told you everything in my kitchen was dirty, it wouldn’t be an overstatement. Thank goodness for my husband John who has been up since 8.30 this morning clearing up! It’s one of those days