This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was one I chose to share with good friends in the Tarn whose house we were spending the night at over the weekend. Typically I’d choose to “minify” a big dessert like this but I always like the opportunity to make a full-sized dessert to … Read more
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer (2019) I’m walking 200km along the Camino de Santiago, from Léon to Sarría in Spain. This is the fourth leg of the Camino which I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to some of the … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie. To be honest, it’s one I wasn’t particularly keen to make this month, given I knew I wouldn’t be able to find gorgeous corn like I do at home (I’m in France for a couple more weeks and corn … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is so simple but has a bit of “wow” factor both in appearance and taste (especially when made with French butter!). Dorie says: There’s a lot to be said for simplicity, and these cookies say it elegantly. They are made from the Do-Almost-Anything Vanilla Cookie Dough, … Read more
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. This week’s selection for Summer Reads is part-mystery, part-memoir, part-history book set in wartime and post-war Europe and Australia and once I started it I couldn’t put it down. I read it in one sitting – again, … Read more
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer (2019) I’m walking 200km along the Camino de Santiago, from Léon to Sarría in Spain. This is the fourth leg of the Camino which I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to some of the … Read more