Toasted Banana Bread with Maple Mascarpone and Plum Compote

It’s been too long since my last post but things have been a bit busy for me lately as I have temporarily moved to NYC for a couple of months, which is very exciting. NYC is a food lover’s heaven! I am based in Brooklyn and the two local shops down the road, delis, as […]

Lemon Courgette Cake

After volunteering in Botswana earlier this year I am going back in October to see some of the kids in the school I worked at again and to help setting up some more orphan projects with a group of volunteers and therefore I have started ‘baking for charity’ again. I am getting involved hands on, […]

Baked Cheesecake with Passion Fruit

For the last two weeks I have had the pleasure of having a houseguest: the lovely Annelise came over – all the way from New Zealand! We’ve known each other for over 10 years, when we met as she and her husband lived in the Big Smoke at the time. A lot has changed since […]

Guilt Free Strawberry Muffins

It’s time for another healthy breakfast, some low-cal, low- fat, low-(or even no) sugar strawberry muffins. The strawberry season in England is well and truly upon us, with Wimbledon just around the corner, and the strawberries are at their best right now. This simple that receipe I found on the Dashing Dish blog doesn’t include […]

Blueberry Scones

At the moment – rather depressingly – we seem to be having a lot of cold and grey around us in London as it’s been raining for days now. Luckily, I made some blueberry scones on that one sunny weekend we had a little while ago, which allowed me to take the photos on my […]