Ingredients; 5 oz butter, chopped into chunks 5 Mars bars, chopped into roughly 1cm slices 5 mugs of Rice Krispies 500g Chocolate (mix of dark & milk) Line a large baking tin with overlapping pieces of clingfilm, ensuring that all parts of the interior are covered. Place the butter and sliced Mars bars in a [...]

Ingredients; 625g Tipo 00 Flour 1 rounded tsp baking soda 2 rounded tsp cream of tartar 1 teaspoon salt (if using salted butter use 1/2 a teaspoon) 100g chilled butter cubed 1 egg beaten 300ml milk 25g castor sugar Hard to believe it’s nearly 3 weeks since I wrote this post about Roma’s excellent Tipo [...]

We’ve all heard of a music mashup where you get two or more songs and mash them together to get a new song. Some of these are great and some are truly, truly awful. The following is one of the earliest examples I know of a music mashup made decades in advance of when the [...]

Ingredients; Extra virgin olive oil Balsamic vinegar Salt Pepper French mustard Vinaigrette dressings are very quick and simple to make and this recipe is a good “standard” dressing to learn. It’s ridiculously easy and quick to make and if you store it in the fridge will keep for about a month. The secret of a [...]

Ingredients; 4 whole onions finely sliced 1 heaped teaspoon of (smoked) paprika 3 fresh chillies finely diced 25g butter 3 x 400g tins of Pinto beans 3 x 400g tins of Cannellini beans 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes 4 bay leaves Salt Pepper White wine vinegar 3 tablespoons of molasses Olive oil Serves [...]