Coffee and Walnut Cupcakes - Comfort Food
Before we had Finn, we would buy the papers of a weekend and spread them over the breakfast table, whilst our hands cradled cups of coffee and crumbs lingered on our fingers, well into the idle...
View ArticleGluten Free at River Cottage - last minute places on next week's course!
Quick! Hurry, hurry! We've had two last minute cancellations on next week's gluten free day at River Cottage!Bear in mind if you are hesitating, that this course has been fully booked for well over a...
View ArticleGreek Olive Oil - Direct from the producer!
It's not often I get a request to review a product I can honestly say is 'real food'. As a result, product reviews are few and far between. However, when I'm asked if I would like to try some olive...
View ArticlePin It Forward UK
Pinterest how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...You know that feeling you get when you crack open the freshly minted spine of new magazine? Interiors magazines are my poison - but yours may be...
View ArticleGluten Free at Ashburton Cookery School
Yesterday was my first teaching day at the Ashburton Cookery School - a deliciously well oiled machine of a place! It's an exciting new strand on my bow, because I was teaching trainee chefs and...
View ArticleRaspberry Kleicha for Lubna
I haven't written much here at all lately. Life seems to have picked me up on it's back and carried me running this year. I have been writing, but none of it here.One of my many projects is a book on...
View ArticleAdvanced Gluten Free Baking
Anyone who has been on one of my courses will know how excitable I can be when it comes to baking! River Cottage have been hosting my baking course for a couple of years now and it is always fully...
View ArticleArroz Dulce con Manteca (dairy and gluten free rice pudding)
Nick and I grabbed ourselves a little break in Andalucia last week. We stayed in Gaucín - a pueblo blanco perched improbably on the side of a deep valley - forty five minutes drive up winding mountain...
View ArticleProsciutto and Egg Muffins
Most of the food I cook at home these days is simple and wholesome. After hunting down the best seasonable produce and stowing it lovingly in the larder, I want to bring it to the table with the...
View ArticleA Gently Spooky Breakfast
I'm not much for Halloween, but I did start the day with a gently spooky spider's web on my toast. Black sourdough bread, slathered with tahini and a drizzle of blackstrap molasses. Mmmm!
View ArticleGluten & Dairy Free Carrot & Ginger Parkin
Yesterday was Autumnal right down to its muddy boots. Between sudden heavy downpours, the sky sang like mid-summer, painting the fields a spectrum of toffee colours, from barley sugar to muscovado.The...
View ArticleTeaching & Event Calendar
I will try to keep this page as up to date as possible. Please contact me if you can't find the information you need or you would like to book me for a demonstration or workshop.TeachingAshburton...
View ArticleHappy Meat - Delivered Straight to Your Door!
I'm always looking for great suppliers to recommend, so when I came across Green Pasture Farms, I was excited to try their free range (grass fed) meat.Buying a regular meat box allows you to plan...
View ArticlePear & Almond Turnovers
The other day I woke up to find that there were no eggs for my breakfast, no sardines for my toast and nothing left-overish to heat up. With a rainy morning of admin ahead of me, the need for comfort...
View ArticleChristmas Morning Muffins - grain free
You've probably noticed that I haven't posted much around here for a pretty long time. Things are busy in a very good way that unfortunately prevents me from devoting time to blogging. I can't tell you...
View ArticleWild Garlic Pesto
If you're lucky enough to live near some woodland, a walk along any shady path at the moment will be flanked by a carpet of dark green leaves and a sprinkling of starry white flowers. You certainly...
View ArticleRiver Cottage Gluten Free
For many months I've been dying to tell you all about the gluten free cook book that I have written for River Cottage, published by Bloomsbury.I wanted to take you aside and talk about how exciting it...
View ArticleA pink pickle pick me up
Follow my blog with BloglovinAlthough Christmas has been and gone, New Year celebrated with kisses in Bridport's town square, my body is still waiting for winter to arrive. I brace myself for every...
View ArticleCarob Fudge - a wickedly nutritious winter treat
Follow my blog with BloglovinA few months ago after a period of intense work, long days and not a little stress had ended, I noticed that I felt permanently on edge. It was a kind of excitable, nervy,...
View ArticleTroubleshooting for gluten free sourdough starters
Many of the breads in my book, River Cottage Gluten Free, use a sourdough starter to make the grain more digestible and bring that wonderful sourdough flavour that so many of us miss when we follow a...
View ArticlePancakes for your valentine
Chocolates, roses and jewellery may flood the shops in advance of valentine's day and card shops groan with pink endorsements of love, but I find it all a little prefabricated for my tastes. Whilst it...
View ArticleOrange & Rose Geranium Brownies - gluten free!
My stepmother used to bake the most amazing flapjacks and sunflower seed cookies when I was small, parcelling up a few with a handwritten letter and posting them to my sister and I. Like Proust's...
View ArticleMalty gluten free sourdough (my new favourite)
Coeliac Awareness Week runs from 9th-15th May this year. Although awareness of my own coeliac disease is pretty much a year round thing for me, it is wonderful that information will be extra visible...
View ArticleMake a Gluten Free or Rye Sourdough Starter from Scratch
Gluten free or rye sourdough starterIn addition to baking my own gluten free sourdough bread, I use a sourdough starter to ferment pancakes, breakfast muffins, crumpets, pastry and farinata. You can...
View ArticleFour fantastic days at Otter Farm
If you saw the Grand Designs episode featuring Otter Farm, you'll already know something about the beautiful rural retreat and cookery school crowdfunded and built by award winning food writer Mark...
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