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The icing on the cake
So, after you’ve patiently waited the best part of 3 months, religiously feeding every two weeks with your favourite tipple – ours is brandy …
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Christmas cake: sugar and spice and all things nice!
About a year ago, I took a bit of a break from blogging about my various different baking and cooking exploits, mainly as I …
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Tear and share remix: T’is the season to be pumpkin
As we slip into Autumn, one of my favourite seasons, it is fully accepted to have copious amounts of spice and pumpkin with everything …
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Crab apple jelly, distinctive light pink gold!
As you can tell from the last post, it is the apple season in the Batchelor house. Now crab apple jelly isn’t quite as …
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Apple sauce – apples, sugar and butter, what’s not to like?!
Apple sauce is a staple in the Batchelor household, it is the thing that goes with roasts regardless of whether they have pork as …
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Feisty pickled chili cucumber which comes with a kick
This idea was inspired by Nadia from bake-off, but in the end with a recipe that came from Jamie Oliver after a little bit …
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Homemade biltong, channelling my inner Macgyver
This particular experiment was undertaken in 2014 during a rare holiday spent at home when the children were at nursery/school, it was the spark …
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Battenberg – a thing of beauty and tastes pretty good too
I say it time and time again, but I’ve always wanted to try making Battenberg, mainly because I love marzipan and I could see …
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Whole wheat pasta – so tasty and so simple with only 3 ingredients!
I first made homemade pasta about 2 1/2 years ago and after a frustrating sticky batch, which meant I had to abandon it in …
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Gingerbread biscuits, fun when smarties are involved!
Angus has just finished his first year at school and was sent home with a spoon with his name on and the recipe for …
