Gingerbread made from oatmeal, treacle, golden syrup, and dark brown sugar, spiced with ground ginger and nutmeg. I like the idea of bonfire night, and enjoy thinking of all manner of things to be eaten out of hand before this extremely pagan ritual, but I haven’t actually been out to a see any fireworks for … Continue reading
Another caramel thing, but who’s complaining? I’ve wanted to try this recipe for years and here it is: soft golden caramels with a cosy apple flavour. It’s coming up to Bonfire Night, which is when British people set things on fire when it is cold (as opposed to summer, when we set our food on fire to make the … Continue reading
This is the result of wanting a warm, buttery autumn pastry. I had a truly divine sorbet a couple of weeks ago, Chin Chin Lab’s apple turnover, smooth and intense tangy-sweet fruit with spiced syrup soaking crisp pastry. It was more fragrant and lovely than most fruit pies I’ve had, and it made me want to go … Continue reading
Sometimes I like my soups like this, rich, thick and velvety. This recipe was conceived and written during a bout of sleeplessness. Unlike me, Mr. Pear is consistently excellent at sleeping – barely 2 minutes and zonk. It’s comical. While he sleeps I try to exhaust myself in the quietest way possible, but the inside of my head itches … Continue reading
Well, it’s Halloween this month. Even if the current weather varies between muggy and miserable stark pallor rather than bright colours and crisp air, I’m determined to give myself fully to autumn. I drink hot chocolate in the evenings. I’ve knitted quite a few things for my friends and myself. The other day I ate a whole … Continue reading
Ugly food is good food. This stir-fry is full of soft textures and gentle flavours, quite unlike the complex profiles of the more popular Thai dishes. Even if you’re a chilli fiend who loads up on the stinkiest fermented sauces, sometimes your palate (and, let’s be real, your guts) become exhausted, and you return to … Continue reading
I call this a pork pot pie because a British pork pie is something different. This is actually an elaborate version of a pork, apple, and (hard) cider pie we made to see my friend Mary off last spring, tinkety tonk, old fruit. (Not gonna lie, I am kind of secretly hoping this pie and … Continue reading
Sometimes my dad gives me recipes. This means that he vaguely describes a delicious thing and suggests that I make it. Last Saturday we had tea and toast together. ‘We recently experimented with a pumpkin and coconut tart at the restaurant. We got a ready-made pastry case, filled it with coconut custard and pieces of … Continue reading
Disclosure: this post features baking products sent to me for free courtesy of BakingMad; I chose to make Halloween-themed biscuits using some of these items–which are, anyway, already from brands I use in my everyday baking. Items marked with an asterisk (*) indicate the free products in the following post. It’s that time of year … Continue reading
I used to walk to school on a path lined with sweet chestnut trees. Come autumn the ground would be strewn with fallen chestnuts, which we would of course pick–who are we to say no to local free food? October 2009 was the last and most impressive pick, I think: as you can see from … Continue reading
The Furious Pear Pie 
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