Every couple of years, my friend and neighbour PeteV passes me a bottle of Chivas Regal 12YO Scotch Whisky. He receives the occasional bottle as a gift, but as none of us are spirit drinkers, he’s more than happy for me to use it for cooking (my apologies to Greg and the other whisky drinkers [...]
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Chivas Regal Chocolate Cake
Posted in Recipes, tagged Chivas Regal Scotch, Chocolate Bourbon Cake, Maida's Chocolate Bourbon Cake, Nick Malgieri Bake!, whiskey chocolate cake, whisky chocolate cake on February 7, 2012 | 60 Comments »
Pammy’s Jammy Dodgers
Posted in Recipes, tagged Doctor Who jammie dodgers, jammy dodgers, Pam Corbin's Cakes on February 3, 2012 | 64 Comments »
I love… Pete’s raspberry jam… Doctor Who… and Pam Corbin’s recipes! So when Pam the Jam’s latest cookbook finally arrived from Amazon, this had to be first recipe I tried. After all, they’re the Doctor’s favourite snack, and you never know when he might pop by for a visit. The shortbread recipe was a doddle [...]
Converting Recipes to Metric
Posted in Recipes on January 15, 2012 | 70 Comments »
A post written somewhat selfishly for my own benefit, but hopefully some of you might find it useful as well. Conversion tables published on the internet are often variable, so I thought I’d list (for my own reference) the quantities that I use for baking. These are the weights I’ve come up with through trial [...]
Chicken with Forty Cloves of Garlic
Posted in Recipes, tagged chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, Chicken with forty cloves of garlic, frozen garlic, Nigella Lawson on January 14, 2012 | 60 Comments »
I’ve wanted to try this recipe for ages! With the arrival of Ian and Diana’s new season garlic, I was keen to use up the last of my previous year’s frozen supplies… I followed Nigella Lawson’s recipe, substituting chicken drumsticks for the thigh pieces she’d stipulated, and our perennial leeks for the spring onions. The [...]
