So I teased earlier this week that I'd uncovered a shortbread recipe that could be recreated 4+ ways and now I have the time to teach you how to make it!...
All in Cooking
Chameleon Recipe: One Biscuit, or Four?
So I've been doing some experimenting with a reliable Nana biscuit recipe and am excited to report I've discovered that, like a quality winter coat or pair of boots, it's a cookie that can be styled in multiple ways!...
Oh Édouard!
If Édouard de Pomiane was still alive he'd be a television cooking show star. I'm sure of this because of the way he writes his cookbooks; with directness, in great detail and with ...
Tip #1083
Nana Tip #1083: Put old newspaper down on the workbench before baking. It's kind of magical, you can...
Passionfruit Shortbread Creams: A Recipe
I am lucky to be surrounded by grandmas who love to cook. Three of them to be exact! Aged 26 I'm aware this is unusual, half my friends never had the chance to meet their grandparents...
Cooking with Lily Wallace
Cooking for a group is hard. Well it's more the "hostessing" part, juggling: tidying the house, with thinking through and pre-preparing meals, setting the table, cleaning glasses... I don't know how the women of the 50s...
Lose Weight Eating Out: Step 1
Eat veggies before the meal. Sounds obvious but it's necessary to feel full and not overindulge on the deliciousness served up. Here's one of...
Golden Rules for the Kitchen
I wish I'd met Mrs. Charles Roundell. Sadly, we may never know what her actual name was. Fitting of the times (1903!) she wrote her book The Still Room under her husband's name...