The Battenburg extended family headed off to Center Parcs in Wiltshire for the school holidays – half way between the London and Cardiff branches of the clan. We were pleased to find that...
Read More →My little brother suggested that I was not being upfront about things that go wrong in the Battenburg kitchen. Not strictly true, but for his benefit: My second attempt at sloe jelly is...
Read More →J “accidentally” took one of my Ottolenghi books home with her after staying at ours the other night… Really? Accidentally?? But you do have to love a friend who always takes a cook...
Read More →The lovely J looked after Missy B the other night and they spent a jolly hour or two working out the recipe for Scripture cake – a recipe of yesteryear that J is...
Read More →So there I was helping out at a photo shoot for a forthcoming new parenting magazine (watch this space…), when I got a text from J asking if we were “still on for...
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