Afternoon tea Sunday 5 January 2014

No sooner than New Year’s Day dawned, it was time to think about the first afternoon tea of 2014; a private party arranged by a returning guest.  Decisions on the menu were strongly influenced by what ingredients I already had to hand, left over from the recent...

Santa’s Grotto – Saltaire Clandestine Cake Club

With the festive season upon us, nothing less than a seasonal theme would do for the Saltaire Clandestine Cake Club’s December event.  You would be forgiven to think that we might have been in danger of ending up with all Christmas cakes.  Not so!...

Seasonal Christmas lunch menu Saturday 14 December 2013

This menu was sure to be a fitting way to welcome the festive season in.  A complimentary aperitif with canapés got things off to a warming start.  The canapés, inspired by my ‘Chef for a Day’ experience at The Box Tree in Ilkley, included beetroot macaroons filled...

Christmas Afternoon Tea 7 December 2013

It’s an old cliché but Christmas seems to come round faster and faster each year.  It’s knocking on the door yet again and there is no better to get the festivities underway than with another Christmas themed afternoon tea.  Savouries will include the return of walnut...

Let’s Go Retro – Saltaire Clandestine Cake Club

As always, I had much excitement and anticipation for this month’s cake club event.  Our member bakers never cease to impress with their creativity and lateral thinking when it comes to baking cake and I was in no doubt that this month’s theme, Let’s...