Archive for the 'kids cooking' Category

Bitter Cocoa Butterfly Biscuits

Biscuits are one of the things I most enjoy making. Not least because I love to bake. Biscuits are versatile, varied and generally very easy. A delicious batch can be knocked up in no time from ingredients I almost always have on hand.
Most cookie doughs are not only addictively yummy eaten raw, [...]

Buttermilk and Orange Blossom pancakes with Homemade Honey Yoghurt

Buying gifts for cooks is always an easy thing to do. You can never have too many kitchen gadgets, or too large a kitchen for that matter. Lately I’ve been incredibly lucky on the kitchen gift front and this morning I put one of those gorgeous gifts to good use. On a [...]

A very Viking Yuletide challenge

My daughter, who is a superb representation of her melting pot of ancestry, has long been thrilled with the idea of her Viking blood. Her father, who she inherited the blood of the Norsemen from, is to her a Viking personified. Strong, proud, laughing, passionate, independent, irreverent. He loves his family and [...]

Kids can cook too!!

Every day or so I get an email from my mom. I speak to her regularly on skype, but I also get these additional little snippets, like notes in my lunchbox, or a bunch of fresh picked garden flowers in an antique vase on my bedside table. Because that’s what my mom does. She finds [...]