This is my favourite soup - very quick and easy to make, very tasty - and filling too because of the lentils. Fry onion, celery and garlic i...

My middle son asked for a chocolate birthday cake topped with cream and mint chocolate. I thought a simple cream topping needed a cake that...

A variation on the chocolate birthday cake - this is my little son's birthday cake for his actual birthday (rather than his party cake)....

It's birthday cake-making time here, this was the birthday party cake for the smallest boy in the house. A chocolate cake with chocolat...

I recently found Brittany's blog Les rêves d'une boulangère because she kindly left a comment on one of my posts. There are lots o...

I cooked myself lunch again! This is inspired by another Sophie Dahl recipe, and is nothing particularly adventurous, but I have to admit t...

This was a day of 'firsts' for me - I cooked tofu for the first time, and I also cooked myself some lunch for the first time (I usua...

Birthday cake time again, and this time it's Nigella's Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake. I hadn't ever made this one before, and wa...