dessert
Simply cake
Well, it’s a month since the last cake post, and I’m in a pretty similar spot: enjoying a rainy afternoon at home, everything bursting with greenness outside. I don’t think this blog or the world particularly needs another cake recipe,…
Rhubarb olive oil cake
Olive oil is not just for salad! It loves cake just as much… Think of it as the red cocktail dress of the baking world — it doesn’t feature in every event, but when you bring it out at the…
Spiced quince compote
Another autumn, another quince recipe. Last year I went the poached route, this year I decided to try a compote.
The Lolita date
Occasionally I come across ingredients that I think deserve the spotlight all on their own, not as part of a recipe. It may be something completely new, fascinating, surprising, or just plain delicious. Hence the idea for a series of…
A time of plenty
Summer is a time of plenty… a time to rejoice in tomatoes bursting with flavour; perfect, tiny, sweet wild raspberries; fresh, golden corn; huge zucchinis from the garden. A time when “cooking” is almost trivial. Go for a stroll in…
Rosemary poached quince (and amaranth porridge! and Christmas!)
It’s been over a month since I got excited about some bright, beautiful, aromatic quince on a sunny autumn day in Berlin. I took them home and poached them in a simple syrup made with raw sugar, some organic orange…
Gluten-free cake goodness
The other day, I felt like eating cake. It was also high time for a blog post. And I recently met a friend who’s eating mostly gluten-free. So I thought, “Why, I’ll develop a gluten-free cake recipe for the blog,…
Abundance
Friends, it’s plum season here in Berlin. We got a giant bucket of the stuff at the yoga cafe the other day, from the house manager or somebody who has a farm nearby…
Ginger peach lemon cake
Threw together a version of this cake for the tea break at my yoga course this week and enough people seemed to enjoy it that I thought I’d share the recipe.
