Publishing on death row?

Like arriving at dinner with a bottle of Oyster Bay, patronising your local bookshop has sadly gone out of fashion. With online content saturating our lives the publishing industry in on death row and it's future is looking bleak. 

There is one glimmer of steam though - Cookbooks still sell. And by that I mean physical books, books you can touch and put on a shelf. While all books provide an experience, cookbooks seem to provide a lasting experience.

People still want and buy cookbooks. Cookbooks are the number one genre of books checked out from libraries. Cookbooks are the  number one genre of books stolen from libraries. Cookbooks are the only genre of book unaffected by the recession.

After a year of being in boxes I was able to unpack my beloved cookbooks this week and I stumbled across this one. I'm not sure of its whereabouts but whoever the owner was, they obviously liked potato cakes. 

Rubies in the Rubble

Rubies in the Rubble; a concept that on the surface seems more difficult than simultaneously breast feeding and drying your hair but, I'm told, can be done.

The very wonderful, very glamorous Jenny Dawson has undertaken a challenge to rescue vegetables who are moments from their sell-by-death and transform the market outcasts into deli A-listers. Her chutneys prove that the tons of excessive waste we Brits produce can be rescued, cared for, cooked, bottled and finally enjoyed with a chunk of mature brie. Read all about it, read all about it...

http://rubiesintherubble.com/recent-press/

Recipe for love

Nine months of cooking and hey presto, let me introduce you to the most beautiful thing I've ever made. 

Back to cooking next week, I promise. 

NHS Gruel

It was the night before birth and my energy arrives: Pork & Apple Stew and Sponge & Custard. Our good old NHS. 

Let's just say it got me through the following five hours and helped me deliver the best thing I've ever cooked... perhaps a little glimpse of that soon? 

Just because sometimes you need to...

Today is a big Monday for me, my baby and Nicko. Energy & happiness was order of the day and for the first time since I remember advertising lured me and I paused, pulled into a drive through and pressed the little button. 

A lovely man asked what I would like and a small voice requested a chocolate milkshake (I was the only person in the car). Two windows later and a delicious cup was passed to me. Please don't judge but I enjoyed it, each and every slurp. 

Freshly Baked Banoffee Tartlets

Bunny Birthday Cake

I baked a cake for my little niece who turns five tomorrow. She has two bunny's that are taken to bed every night so we thought it fitting to make her a white chocolate one to hold her candles.