Chocolate Marmalade Slump Cake
This is a shameless steal from my cousin Lucas Hollweg’s book Good Things to Eat, a collection of quietly ravishing recipes and stories with beautiful photos of real food, made with love, and that (as...
View ArticleApple and Sultana Cake
And now back to cake. This recipe belongs to my cousin, Lucas Hollweg, and you can find it in his book Good Things to Eat, which I think should be re-titled Fricken’ Amazing Things to Eat. Buttery and...
View ArticleJammy
This is the jam I made from the sofa-sized strawberries I was talking about. I feel not particularly enamoured of jam in general (and I’m not much of a jam maker as a result), perhaps because of the...
View ArticleThe short life of pears
There was a pear tree outside the window in Watchet. Conference pears that suited the palette of the place. Seaford was grey – pewter grey, oyster grey, pinky grey after the sunset. And Watchet was...
View ArticlePickle
Such a thing of beauty this: pickled pears. Of all the things I made at Christmas this was the one I loved the most. Sharp and simple, slightly searing, cold and slippery, the syrup thickened to a...
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