Banana Bread

Banana Bread (GF & DF options)

Hands up who loves Banana Bread? Growing up in our house it was always “Banana Cake”. To be honest I’ve never really understood what the difference is, if indeed there is a difference at all. I was always a bit secretly pleased to find the bananas had gone brown, it meant Mum could be convinced to […]

Coconutty Lemon Curd

Divine Coconutty Lemon Curd (Dairy Free)

Lemon is one of my favourite flavours. Be it in either a dessert (especially lemon meringue pie) or in a savoury using preserved lemons, sprinkling finely grated lemon zest on top of a spicy soup or simply a squeeze of juice on fresh fish. Once I even made lemon marmalade which was amazing. In fact, […]

Chocolate blocks

My Week With Willy Wonka

I’ve got a golden ticket… I was lucky enough to get my hands on a place at the 5 day Chocolate School at Squire’s Kitchen International School (Farnham UK) last week as, lucky for me, they had a cancellation. To be fair it wasn’t actually Willy Wonka himself, in fact his name was Mark Tilling (but “week with Willy […]

banana blueberry cake

Blueberry Banana Bread (3B’s?)

A couple of weeks ago we discovered a lovely farmer’s market in Kingston-Upon-Thames. The produce was all quite fresh and a lot cheaper than the supermarkets. I quickly loaded up the bags with fresh fruit, vegetables and some whole trout. By the time I had finished my shopping both punnets of blueberries had been eaten by […]