Tortilla EspaƱola (Spanish Omelette)

Yesterday after my BAO post despite pretty positive feed back from friends and family, my soon to be ex best friend bombarded me with messages about my post being too long or technical etc etc, it went on for a while. Purely to appease him today I promised to keep it short and sweet (but…

BAO – Buns of Delight

I previously professed to not have much of a sweet tooth, but on reflecting over my first 3 days as a ‘blogger’ all I have done is preach about shortcrust pastry and shred 2 (although totally delicious) sweet tart recipes (links on the recipe page). So today as a man fearing having to eat his…

More Fun; Tarte au Chocolat (Chocolate tart)

I figured that this would be the perfect follow up to my last post. I didn’t want to give a huge info overload all in one off-puttingly wordy post, but I do want to share some options for alternative fillings for your shortcrust. Ok, so I recently posted about the benefits at least in my…

Fun with Tarts! (Lemon) – Short crust Pastry

One of the great things about the short crust pastry and the technique that I will outline is it’s diversity. You can use this technique with a couple of recipe tweaks for both sweet and savoury, easily accommodating the humble quiche, or a more robust roast pepper, nduja and goats cheese tart. Of course it’s…

Intro – KITCHEN REHAB

As I sit here attempting for the third time in two hours to write an introductory first post for this food blog I am over come with a sense of discomfort and nausea at the prospect of self publicising. My best friend who is a literary agent quite simply said in response to an expletive…