VANILLA EXTRACT…MAKE YOUR OWN!

Vanilla is a something that has for as long as I can remember delighted my senses. When I was young it was associated with baking. I learnt to cook at an early age and Mum always made pretty much everything that we put in our mouths. Her steak and kidney pies were mouthwatering, her cheese … Continued



KAMUT COOKIES.

Last Sunday we took ourselves off to The Grand Opening of The Hub. It is a lovely vegetarian cafe in Didsbury, Manchester and part of the health shop, Healthy Spirit run by the lovely Sarah. I spied up on the top shelf some Kamut flour which I have used before. The following recipe is the … Continued



SPELT BREAD WITH EXTRAS!

This is a rather brief post. I popped a photograph on Twitter the other evening which sparked some interest. This was what started it all and so here is the recipe.  I made it up as I went along but used my basic understanding of bread-making. SPELT BREAD WITH CHIA SEEDS & MOLASSES. 1Kg Spelt … Continued



RASPBERRY AND ELDERFLOWER CUPCAKES

This recipe comes from the lovely book shown above ‘RED VELVET CHOCOLATE HEARTACHE’. It was used by Antonia, one of the gorgeous women who came to our Jambo Workshop back in November. She stuck to the recipe, unlike my good self! The resulting cakes were delicious and there have been requests from my yoga folk … Continued



CHOC BANANA BREAD.

Those of you who have read the previous post about our yoga workshop may like to have the recipe for our banana bread. This is not my recipe, although I have tweaked it somewhat.  It comes from bills food  by Bill Granger and is such a popular cake in our house that I had to carefully … Continued