cooking – Life by the Word

Caramel Chocolate Steamed Pudding – Good things take time!

For Christmas one gift my family bought me was a proper steaming bowl with lid. This is the type of

On order from my kitchen this Christmas is my mum’s trifle recipe. It’s a traditional recipe, non-alcoholic (using homemade grapejuice

There is nothing nicer than a good Gingernut biscuit with a cup of tea! Since I wrote about the Doctor’s

For a few years we have been trying out recipes from my husband’s grandmother’s recipe book, (Evelyn Burgess, my mother-in-law’s

My latest Covid-19 lockdown experiment has been drying olive leaves to make tea. Olive leaf tea has made a comeback

In Covid-19 lockdown, our supermarkets shelves are empty of yeast amongst other things, and I am down to my last

In New Zealand we are now 10 days into our country-wide lockdown. I feel the need to reflect here in

One thing quarantine is giving me, is time! And things like bread need lots of time to gently turn floury

In the school holidays I like to try and cook something I haven’t cooked before. Now I have cooked many

Today has been quince day. Our small faithful tree has given us beautiful fragrant yellow fruit, and as the first