I stumbled across a great combo the other day – chocolate, blackberries and vanilla ice cream. I had a small punnet of blackberries – they ripen very early in the south of England – and a hoard of guests for dinner. Best of all the experiment was a huge success.
I made my normal chocolate cake [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Blackberry and chocolate combo!
Posted in Recipes, tagged blackberries, chocolate, family, food, Recipes, sponge on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Screen saver silliness
Posted in Something caught my eye today, tagged harvey nichols, inspiration, miscellaneous, screensavers on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have a day in London booked for tomorrow, just to fill me up and add inspiration to the new designs that are already brewing in my head.
In preparation I was doing some web-surfing and came across this absolutely bonkers screensaver downloadable from Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge. I’m sure that it is deeply subversive and [...]
Blackcurrant cup cakes
Posted in Recipes, tagged allotment, blackcurrants, cake, cup cakes, fairy cakes, food, pink icing, Recipes on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I picked blackcurrants from our plot yesterday, and as well as two jars of jam, made these gorgeous little cup cakes!
The recipe was from Sarah Raven’s wonderful garden cookbook, but was basically a regular sponge with a handful of blackcurrants added. Save some currants because you will need some to make the pink juice and [...]
Fantastic recycled greenhouse!
Posted in Garden chit chat, Something caught my eye today, tagged allotment, community projects, creative, food, gardening, greenhouse, recycled on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was down on our allotment plot today, trying to make it look as though someone loves it after a week or two of neglect – if it were a child I would be before the courts!
Whilst I was blitzing the weeds and harvesting potatoes, black currants, the first courgette, some stray onions, a handful [...]
Sweet Coleslaw
Posted in General ramblings, Recipes, Shop news!, tagged cabbage, food, Recipes, sweet coleslaw on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As you may have guessed by my week long absence from my blog, this week has been rather busy – but it was fun! – as well as all the usual stuff of family life, I’ve been to Wales and back, made pretty little bags from left over fabric scraps, sold lots at a beads [...]
