Cooking

Gingerbread Biscuits Filmed

We filmed the making of our gingerbread snowflake biscuits. Watch the four minute short film and find out what it takes to make these tasty treats.

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds (in the microwave)

I discovered you can microwave pumpkin seeds for a quick and tasty snack

Cooking Quinoa in a Steamer

It was a couple of years a go that I first started to hear about quinoa. Almost overnight it seemed to be everywhere; recipes were popping up on my blogs, and my colleagues were talking about what they’d made for dinner with it. When I saw quinoa in the health food store recently, I decided to get some and finally try it out.

French Green Lentils

Lentils feature fairly regularly in our meals, and last week I picked up a bag of French green lentils at the supermarket. I haven’t used French green lentils before, but they seemed to be the common variety on the shelves.

Gingerbread - A Christmas Tradition

Christmas is just around the corner. The decorations are up, and the Christmas events are in full swing. But, until yesterday, there was something missing - our traditional Christmas gingerbread snowflakes.

Caramelising sugar

Caramelising sugar for crème caramel.

Mexican spice

Mexican spice mix for burritos

Snowflake Shaped Gingerbread Biscuits

It must be nearing Christmas, because this weekend we made our traditional snowflake shaped gingerbread biscuits.

Easy chocolate truffles

It is easy to make decadent chocolate truffles

You Can Freeze Fresh Cream

How to freeze fresh cream