Paper Palate

It always amazes me that anyone should have a difficult time buying me a present.  Then again, it also amazes me that I’m not showered with presents on a daily basis.  I’m sure there are enough cookbooks out there that I could get a new one every day and never have any repeats.  Sadly, I […]

I love bread in a somewhat unreasonable manner. It is one of the few foods I could never give up. And it’s also one of the few things I rarely make - which is ridiculous given the state of most commercial bread in Britain.
A copy of Anne Sheasby’s The Big Book of Bread recently came […]

Gifts for the kitchen can easily cross the line, going from a thoughtful gesture to an inappropriate hint.  For the holidays, beautiful cookbooks filled with inspiration should be your theme, leaving the overly practical cookbooks for the domestic chef to acquire on his or her own.  Yet, when purchasing online, or fighting the holiday season […]

[I have included a small glossary of terms at the bottom of this post for some of the words that we may have heard a 100 times but never really took the time to look up.]
I recently had the pleasure of reviewing the “Olive Oil Baking: Healthy Recipes That Increase Good Cholesterol and Reduce Saturated […]

I used to be of the mindset that dessert is not the place to cut fat and calories. It was rare that I would use low-fat cream cheese or a sugar substitute. I thought if you were going to eat dessert, you might as well go for it and indulge. Well, that was three children […]

Why do I love recipes from food allergy moms?  Simply put, they are easy and reliable.  One would think that a cookbook for food allergies might contain expensive, hard to find ingredients and elaborate directions.  But realistically, do you think that a mom (doesn’t this word alone imply insanely busy) who has to cook every […]

Just received word that another book from Richard Bertinet is to be published at the end of September.
For those, like me, who have enjoyed exploring the marvellous recipes in Dough, Richard’s first book will be overjoyed at the news he is to release another book. Dough - Simple Contemporary Bread is available on Amazon.co.uk for £12.99 and […]

This holiday season there are a wealth of books on the horizon for you to give to all the food lovers in your life. These books are all scheduled for release sometime between now and mid-December or have come out very recently so they are hot, hot, hot! and pretty certainly not already in the […]

When I get an e-mail asking if I want to review a new-to-the-bookshelves cookbook, I don’t need to be asked twice. The big fat Baking: From My Home to Yours cookbook landed on my porch with a thud. And when I say big and fat, I mean it.
Now, truth be told, although I love to […]

There is nothing like a fresh, fluffy, homemade baked good first thing in the morning to start your day off right. The melt in your mouth goodness of a delicious pastry is an amazing day starter with a cup of steaming hot coffee. And after baking the night away making white chocolate raspberry […]