Chocolate Chip Cookies

So i’ve been playing about with this recipe for years and i think i’ve finally perfected it. It’s all to do with taking them out the oven after an exact amount of time, whether they look ready or not. That said, i do have a fan oven, so those of you without one should add [...]

Cake or Death?

“Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. …”
So yeah i made a cake. A lemon cake. Except i only decided this at the last minute, mid way through making a plain sponge. So i mish-mashed a few recipes together and came up with this…
 
For the sponge:
Ingredients
110g/4oz butter or margarine
110g/4oz caster sugar
2 medium eggs
110g/4oz self [...]

Baked Aubergine and Mozzarella Rolls

So i found the recipe for these here and thought i’d try them for dinner last night. I’m not sure they turned out quite as they were supposed to, but they were still good.
For starters, i ended up with a lot of fairly runny sauce with quite a lot of onion in my sauce (using a [...]

The Hunt for a Skewer

You wouldn’t imagine that a skewer is hard thing to buy, would you? Just one single metal skewer so i have something other than a fork to prod my baking with (forks make lots of holes which spoil the prettiness, skewers only make one.) But it really is. Even that wonderful place of magicalness that [...]

Vegetable and Paneer Smoosh

So Paneer is a new discovery of mine. Rather like Halloumi in that you can cook with it without it melting into a heap. I found some the other day that needed used up and this is what was created:

(Awful picture, sorry!)
It’s essentially a stir fry with some sort of sauce (i can’t for the life of [...]

Scones

These are one of my faves. They’re so easy to make and so tasty once you’re done.
I made two batches last time, one cheese and one plain. The recipes are more or less identical – simply swap the cheese and sugar over and wham bam you’re sorted! I love this particular recipe as it doesn’t [...]

Lets start at the very beginning…

…a very good place to start.
So it started with a loaf tin. Up until that time i cooked occasionally and baked occasionally. Then i was given a loaf tin, a shiny new loaf tin.
Out came the yeast, out came the flour. (Ok so i had to go buy the flour, but the principle’s the same. [...]

So, cooking eh?

I’m Emma. I’m a student with lots of time on my hands. And recently i’ve discovered that i like cooking. And sometimes my food even turns out edible. This is most definitely a bonus.
Anyway i thought i’d use some of that spare time to tell you about the various messes i manage to make in [...]