So does anyone know where summer’s gone? It’s been so rainy and miserable lately – one day we even had stew for tea it was that bad! But in a stubborn bid to remind myself that it is actually still August, just, I decided to make a perfect summer dessert. And it […]
With all of this hot weather we have been having sometimes a good old fruit salad is what you really need for dessert. Of course there needs to be cream, and it goes without saying that no bog standard fruit salad with glace cherries would do in Lucy’s Kitchen. So when I saw this recipe […]
Gin is a big favourite in our house and is my go-to pre-dinner drink (not every night I should add!). So when I saw a link to a recipe on Twitter which mentioned two of my favourite things – both gin and cake – in its title I knew I just had to give […]
So Baby Stephenson eventually arrived on 22 April – 15 days late and even then he had to be forced out. But he is here now and keeping his mummy very busy – hence the lack of posts! A couple of weeks ago, however, it was my dad’s 70th birthday and I was itching to […]
I’m a big fan of carrot cake (it counts towards your five-a-day right?), so when I spotted this recipe in my beloved Hummingbird Bakery cookbook and it said it was similar to carrot cake I couldn’t resist giving it a go. I also had some very brown bananas that had been sitting in the fruit […]
So as I explained on my last post I didn’t quite get around to my Italian cooking adventure after returning from our three-week road trip last summer. Instead, here are some foodie thoughts from the holiday, which took us from Lake Como, to Vicenza, Venice, Florence, Rome and Barolo. Rome food tour – We certainly […]
Hello! It has been such a long time since I last posted so I hope you will forgive me. As summer approached last year I had let the blog slip but was planning to come back all guns blazing after a three-week inspirational road trip around northern Italy. Well, it was a fab trip, I […]
In between my GBBO challenges, I will update with any interesting recipes and ideas I come across. We receive a bag of veggies delivered to our door every Thursday thanks to the local company Vegie Bag. When I get home each Thursday it’s so exciting wondering what is going to be in the bag. This […]
This traditional French pastry upset a few of the contestants on the Great British Bake Off when it was set as a technical challenge. Basically, they are little choux pastry buns, one on top of each other and named after the French word for nuns, because of their appearance. I had made choux pastry once before […]
You may recall that on my last blog I said that in 2014 I would be trying the various challenges from the last series of the Great British Bake Off. Well, I have finally got around to sorting out my to-do list. And, it looks like I had better get going! The blog style will […]
lucyskitchenblog.wordpress.com 