Hooray what a super week - it was my birthday this week, it was my sister's birthday the day after, my friend had a lovely wedding celebration and it’s a bank holiday weekend here in England. So lots of lovely things happening! For a celebration breakfast, I decided to go for french toast with berries. The bread is soaked in milk, flavoured with cinnamon and nutmeg, along with egg, and then fried in butter - heaven! For those who have been reading my blog for a while, you w

There has been a lot of rain down here in the South East this week - if the garden wasn’t springing up, I would think we were only at the start of the season. All this rain and being by the sea reminds me of childhood holidays in the beautiful county of Cornwall and that gave me the thought to make Cornish Fudge...this is how my brain works. There are two elements that make this fudge Cornish; one is the addition of Cornish clotted cream (Roddas is my favourite, but use any

The other day I was in Pret A Manger, which if you don't know, is a coffee/sandwich place in the U.K. I had popped in to grab a quick snack and my eye was caught by their version of a bar of tiffin. I love tiffin, which also goes by the name of 'fridge cake'. It is immensely chocolatey, dense, chewy, crispy and delicious. So my mission this week was to set about figuring out how to make it - which in hindsight may have been a dangerous thing (they are now within easy reach

Brrrr! It has become cold here again in the South East and I am missing the warmth and sunshine. I realised this was the case when what I wanted to eat had taken a more ‘comforting’ turn; rather than light, bright citrus flavours which are spring like to me, I found myself looking at recipes with chocolate, sponge and luxurious sauces. I have settled on something in the middle, which on reflection, I guess springtime is; its between the definiteness of summer and winter. I