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Make Momofuku Milk Bar Crack Pie at Home
2nd August 2017

How can you hate a recipe and love the end result at the same time? When it's the legendary Momofuku Milk Bar Crack Pie at home. Both the book and …


Potato Crisp Cookies
10th January 2016

Yup. This week's recipe is cookies made with ready salted crisps because a) I'm stuck in the house due to ill health and bored and b) why the hell not? …


Potato Choux Puffs
20th December 2015

After years of thinking choux pastry was impossibly difficult to make, 2015 was the year I mastered it and thus was tempted to make it every day. These little party …


Banana Crumble
27th September 2015

Some people eat oysters when there's a R in the month, but since I'm allergic to them I collect new food intolerances on those months instead. September is brought to …


Chicken Liver and Pumpkin Pate
20th September 2015

A recent health glitch involving the gallbladder I had removed when I was 18 means I've been stuck in the house recuperating for the last week or so. In between …


Teff and Spelt Brown Butter Cookies
19th July 2015

My lovely blog readers know this already, but many people don't know that gluten free doesn't automatically mean wheat free. My wheat free Fodmap friends have to explain this one …


White Pudding Stuffed Cabbage Leaves
15th March 2015

  I used to be such a black pudding fan until I went fodmap, but I'd completely neglected its close cousin, the white pudding. Made from oats, onions and pork fat, …


Crispy Caper and Polenta Salad
14th September 2014

Ok, let's get the humour about Northern Irish and Scottish people not quite understanding salad out of the way. This one does contain fried things, but what do you think …


Brown Butter Cherry Froise
27th July 2014

A froise you say? I'm sure you make them all the time and the word just trips off your tongue into your menu repertoire. Or if you're anything like me, …


Comfort Eating
13th April 2014

I've been having a very quiet couple of weeks. The flu found me just as I finished up the second book and I've been forced to take to my bed …


Fried Porridge
10th February 2014

I am probably constructed half and half from oats and potatoes if you consider my Scottish and Irish heritage. Childhood days started with oats in the form of porridge and …


Chestnut Caramel Shortbread
23rd December 2013

When I was growing up, I associated certain tastes with times of the year. Chestnuts were the taste of celebrations at Christmas when my mum made a gorgeous frozen pudding …


Stamppot
3rd November 2013

I'm going to say something deeply unfashionable in foodie circles: I like Dutch cuisine. I like hearty soups and stews and mountains of cabbage anyway. I'm very Northern European in …


Guava Jammy Dodgers
2nd November 2013

Who doesn't love a Jammy Dodger? All that sticky caramel-like jam and shortcake biscuit? Now imagine if you could customise them and pick your favourite flavour of jam? Make the …


Treacle and Ginger Soda Bread
13th October 2013

Soda bread may have become quite popular outside of Ireland, but I've never seen treacle soda anywhere else. This dark sticky soda bread was sold as farls when I was …


Daim Bar Tablet
17th March 2013

Last weekend I found myself in the slightly retro experience of finding myself with half a can of evaporated milk needing used up. I haven't eaten the stuff neat since …



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