Easy Recipes for Home Cooks
What makes a great scone? It should be light airy flaky and buttery. Served straight from the oven and slathered with butter it should easily fall apart in your fingers. It can be sweet as in blueberry scones or it can be savoury with a bit of spinach and cheese. […]
Bean Curd or tofu is one of the healthiest meat substitute available. It is made of curdled soy milk proteins. Bean curd was first made in China around 2,000 years ago with many kinds of varying firmness. It can be silky smooth sold in tubs or firm sold in bars […]
Life’s too short to have a boring lunch even in lockdown. Something simple but definitely not boring. The Ploughman’s Lunch (or deconstructed sandwich) has boiled eggs, some cold cuts bit of salad greens and some pickles. At the start of lockdown, I made a mixed vegetable pickle which we’ve christened […]
Flaky Buttery Otap Cookies, a sweet treat from Cebu. One of my favourite treats from the Philippines and so easy to make at home. Twenty five minutes from start to finish and with only two ingredients. Otap is originally from Cebu the oldest city in the Philippines. The otap (also […]
I used to work for a Swedish company (not Ikea) back in the day and when one of the staff had a birthday a chocolate cake would make an appearance at tea time usually made by one of the Swedish personnel. Funnily enough I had this cake again at Savage […]
There is indeed a place called Bakewell In the Derbyshire district England and this is where Bakewell Tart come from. Bakewell Tart/Slice has an almond flour base an almond filling and a lemon icing on top.