Healthier, seasonal baking, with plenty of vegan options. Don’t miss the yeasted tomato bread!

Mafalde with roasted tomatoes, robiola cheese and fennel seeds.

Irish Cream Fudge. I recommend skipping that lager and eating more of these babies.

Hand painted cookies for my children to take into their class for World Book Day.

A Q&A with Chef Grant Achatz on his new memoir and his life-and-death battle with tongue cancer.

Oatmeal Soufflé, and healthy alternative to cold cereal or plain ‘ole oatmeal.

Parmesan Thyme Shortbread

A nostalgic and delicious five-part series inspired by one of the best cookbooks of 2010, and a recipe for Moravian White Christmas Cookies.

Read more about the sweet cookbook these Self-Frosting Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes come from!

Book Review: Ramsay’s Best Menus, plus I make Gordon’s Italian Meatballs

Homemade Peach Butter for The Daring Cooks Challenge

Garlic Bell Pepper Chicken served over Cashew Chili Rice from the Mainland China Cookbook … review,recipe & giveaway

Pistachio Cake – it may look simple, but sometimes the simple things are the most delicious!

To celebrate 5,000 blog hits I bought myself “On Food and Cooking” aka the strangest and most interesting food book ever.

Massimo Gammacurta’s new book Lolli-Pop makes art out of lollipops.

The Pegu Blog reviews Old Man Drinks, the funny and surprisingly useful book about curmudgeonly classic cocktails.

Octopus with Paprika