I am getting into the habit now of buying seasonal produce at our local farmers’ market, and then coming home and scouring our cookbooks to see what I can make with what I have bought. We received several new cookbooks as wedding presents, and one that has been particularly useful for this task is The … Continue reading »
There are times when I feel like my cooking has gone well, but rarely have I made something so successful as this sorbet. When I discovered how easy it was to make sorbet with an ice cream maker, during my month of being vegan, I decided to experiment a little, and came up with this. … Continue reading »
I have a great weakness for custard (crème anglaise) – I suspect about fifty per cent of desserts and cakes could be improved with some custard poured over them. This is, I have realised since moving to the United States, a rather English mentality. While I would smother apple crumble or Eve’s pudding in thick, … Continue reading »
If you have not yet read my post about why I am going vegan for a month, you should. Yesterday I came extremely close to sneaking non-vegan food. Twice. I have had absolutely no trouble finding genuinely good food all month, even those situations that I thought might be difficult have turned out not to be … Continue reading »
So here is what happened to the diet… I had bought a pineapple a week ago with the intention of making a pineapple version of my berry yoghurt smoothie. I have been wanting to cook with more seasonal ingredients, and knowing that pineapple is currently in season in New York, I thought I would make … Continue reading »
We are still on a bout of trying to eat healthily at the moment (meaning increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, and trying to lose weight – let’s be honest, ‘eat healthily’ is often a euphemism for ‘lose weight’). This means cutting down on drinking and sweets, which have been replaced with hard work on the … Continue reading »
