Category: Blog
My Secret to Succulent, Juicy Pork Chops
My Secret to Succulent, Juicy Pork Chops If you’re cooking Pork Chops at home, there is a problem here in Spain and sometime buying from the supermarket in the UK, the chops are cut so thin you can’t avoid reproducing the meal you had last week at the local restaurant, dry and tasteless. So, […]
A Few Suggestions for Christmas Recipes you can make ahead of the big day
A Few Suggestions for Christmas Recipes you can make ahead of the big day. This will give you some extra time with friends and family instead of trying to make everything come together all at the same time. Have a Happier and more relaxed Christmas this year with my suggestions. 1. Festive mince pies with […]
The Christmas Curse
Panettone, what’s the best thing to do with one? It’s many years now since I trained to be a baker and it’s only in the later part of my life I was introduced to something which has become the blight of my life, it’s Panettone. During November and December you can’t move in the shops […]
A Penny for them – Another in my Looking Back Series
During the Covid-19 pandemic I was tweaking a few things on the website and quite often during my coffee break whilst sitting there my mind would drift back to the early days when I was still living in the UK and thinking about some of the characters who frequented my my families Pork Butchers shop […]
Another in my Looking Back Series – Rissoles
As many of you already know I’m one who is always looking back into my past, I thinks that’s mainly down to the fact that I can hardly believe how far I’ve come from my very humble and simple upbringing travelling the highways and byways of the United Kingdom with my family, who were travellers […]
Traditional Christmas Cake
If you’re one of those people who enjoy a home baked Traditional Christmas Cake, then it’s time you got cracking, because a good Christmas cake needs time to mature. Mine were made two weeks ago, then over the time between now and the big day it will be periodically given a little tot of brandy […]
Does Cheese Make YOU Dream?
“Many’s the long night I have dreamed of cheese – toasted mostly” said poor Ben Gunn after being marooned three years on Treasure Island, “and woke up again and here I were … You mightn’t happen to have a piece of cheese about you now?” Poor man, its pathetic isn’t it? To think of […]
Bonfire Toffee Apples
These days Toffee Apples seem to be associated with Halloween, goodness knows why. As most of you know my family travelled the fairs in the UK and as far as I can remember, in those far off days the Toffee Apple always made their appearance on the fairgrounds at the the ‘Back-end’ fairs around October […]
Oranges and Almonds bring back memories
As a baker, ingredients have of course, always been a source of interest to me and here in Spain there are a great many local ingredients readily available in abundance that back in the UK always had to be imported. This of course meant large variations of price throughout the year. Spain is the second […]
