Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
It’s Sausage Roll time again! I’m not sure why but I only seem to make these at Christmastime when what I should be doing is making them CONSTANTLY and eating nothing but them right throughout the year. They are that good! I’ve made several batches as they have been requested and I find it best [...]
Monday, November 21st, 2011
Hello! Guess what? Mincemeat is one of the easiest things to make on this planet. There are quite a few ingredients but basically they all go in to a big bowl, sit there for a bit, and then get put in to a jar. OK, there’s a teeny bit more to it than that but [...]
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Hello! Today marks the start of my Christmas Cooking & Baking series. On Sunday I’ll be in the kitchen with my sister in law, Louise, making the mincemeat for the mince pies and as the weeks progress I’ll be combining some test recipes for the book with all of my Christmas baking and cooking. I [...]
Monday, October 10th, 2011
…I’ll be preparing my Pheasant. Recipes to follow! And due to the fantastic conversation started on Friday we’re cooking something else up too! Details anon. I love you, have a fantastic Monday! Cherry x ************************************************************ Pre-Order my book from Amazon Join my Facebook page! Cherry Menlove Promote your Page too Feel free to add me [...]
Friday, September 30th, 2011
I made Quince Cheese yesterday. I psyched myself up for a session by the stove, in the heat, convinced that I’d be there for hours and end up having to throw my maslin pan out as I’d made boiled sweets. But no! As you can see it turned out exactly how I thought it should [...]
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
As you can see I have a glut of Apples and I’m cooking and baking with them constantly right now. These Apple Crisp Breakfast Muffins are sweet but a lot of the sweetness comes from the fruit and not sugar. Having said that the crispy topping is not so healthy but I imagine that these [...]
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Apple Bread Recipe 100g unsalted butter 100g caster sugar 1 heaped teaspoon ground cinnamon 3 eggs 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 250g plain flour 1 teaspoon baking powder dash of milk 2 large cooking apples 1 tablespoon of cinnamon sugar (100g caster sugar, ½ tbsp ground cinnamon) Heat the oven to 170c/ 325f/ gas mark [...]
Friday, August 19th, 2011
One of the things that Robert and I missed the most while he was away in hospital were the times we pottered around the kitchen cooking together. The other evening after the kids were in bed we went out to one of several Damson trees in our back garden and began picking. The Damsons are [...]
Monday, July 11th, 2011
Hello there. Robert is still in hospital. Tomorrow he will have been in for three weeks. Unfortunately I have not seen him in person for a week as my heavily pregnant sister has just had a very bad cold and as Robert has no immune system to speak of it was best not to take [...]
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
It’s raining heavily here right now but on Saturday, oh Saturday was GLORIOUS! It was a day to be in the garden with the kids and lashings of suncream. It was also time to get the paddling pool out of storage and fill it up from the hose. It struck me as Jodie, Robert and [...]
