Ever since I was introduced to Harry Eastwood’s Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache I’ve enjoyed using vegetables in cake recipes. (See here for for my first attempts – a blondie and a light chocolate cake both using butternut squash and both greatly enjoyed.) I’ve also made scones (with butternut squash – really delicious) and daughter No 1 […]

Tuesday morning saw me full of the joys of whatsit and happy as a doodah with the creative juices flowing like the 8.29 am Goring & Streetley to Paddington (fast, straight and almost uninterrupted). By 4 pm I was taciturn to the point of silent, useless and immobile to the extent that you couldn’t have […]