My all cocoa brownies

I would have defied anyone who would have suggested that brownies are just as rich and fudgy without using melted dark chocolate as an ingredient.  I couldn’t imagine that cocoa powder would deliver anything like the gooey, rich finish one looks for in these chocolate...

Baked tomatoes with pearl barley, olive & caper stuffing

Tomatoes take on a rich, sweet, flavour when baked and I love the colourfulness of this dish.  I was inspired to make concoct this recipe one weekend lunch time as I had some olives and lemons  that needed using up along with some cupboard staples.  If you don’t have...

Lemon curd cream cake

I had to think of a cake to make for a recent Saltaire Clandestine Cake Club event.  The theme was ‘All Things Bright & Beautiful’ and, as I had some spare lemons in the fridge that needed using up, I thought something using lemon curd would do just fine.  Maybe I...

Apple & calvados cake

This recipe by Frances Atkins (of The Yorke Arms) caught my eye in a recent article in The Yorkshire Post and I decided to try it.  Her notes were that this was a versatile cake to be used as either sweet or savoury – the article was illustrated with the latter where,...

It’s official: Saltaire loves cake!

The phenomenon that is tea and cake sweeping these pleasant isles came to Saltaire this afternoon. The occasion?  A book promotion for the Clandestine Cake Club recipe book. I have been the organiser of the Saltaire Clandestine Cake Club group for nearly a year now...