There’s something smugly pleasing about turning an inedible lump of food waste that was destined for the bin into a slab of tasty sponge cake. Albeit, only smugly pleasing if I ignore the fact that I allowed some food to go rotten in my fridge in the first place. I gloss [...]
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I’m a tiny bit late on this one, so let’s pretend it’s the 6th November. Because on the 6th November The Dish and The Spoon was 6 months old – a momentous occasion that deserves party hats, balloons, cake and a timely [...]
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Once Good Friday has been toasted and buttered, there’s the problem of Easter itself. You have two traditional cake choices: the chocolate Easter nest or the Simnel cake
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Poor beetroot. It does all it can to make itself loveable. It comes in a variety of pretty pinks and purples, it’s full of all those vitamins and minerals we know we should eat more of, and it’s amenable to being eaten raw, cooked or however you [...]
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Clementine, almond and polenta cake
While Truffle Web Services and I were building this swanky new website, I kept up with the internet’s bottomless appetite for new recipes by writing a weekly cake column for Aol Lifestyle. Some of you may not have noticed this parade [...]
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Well, it’s all change around here, isn’t it? Having used the most basic WordPress platform for 3 years, I decided that maybe, just maybe, I was going to keep this blogging lark up. So the nice man from Truffle Webs Services designed [...]
Continue Reading →I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but some food bloggers are very keen on burgers. Very keen indeed. So when they have a birthday, there is only one possible cake that can be baked for them: a burger cake.
Originally I’d planned on doing a giant burger [...]
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There’s no better way to beat the cold than with a British pudding. The kind of sweet thing that settles in your stomach like a punch to the guts and forces you to slide from your chair and lie underneath the dining room table as if you’re a [...]
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White chocolate and raspberry squares
Squidgy white chocolate sponges stuck with jammy splodges of raspberry – a final fling for summer flavours (even at this late stage in the year) before I give up and tuck myself up in a blanket of custard and a bed of apple pies. Find the recipe for [...]
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Blackberry and apple tray bake
The skies are watery blue, the leaves on the trees are crunchy brown and blog posts like this mention mists, mellow fruitfulness and the childhood joys of blackberrying. So fill your carrier bags and plastic tubs with the last of the hedgerow’s offerings and then go to Aol [...]
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My name is Jassy Davis and I'm a freelance food writer, recipe developer and food stylist. I write for magazines, websites and I'm the co-author of The Contented Calf Cookbook.
You can contact me at gindrinkers@gmail.com
