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Mandarin, Almond, Honey and Fig Cakes

04:24 PM, July 12, 2016 |

40 weeks of feasting, almonds, baking, cake

If you need a wee cake that tastes like an aromatic wander through a souk, skip straight to the bottom for the recipe. These petite mandarin, almond, honey and fig cakes might just be what you’re looking for.

There are many wonderful things about these cakes. Yes, they’re gluten and grain free. Yes, they’re refined sugar free (and can be made fructose free by substituting in rice malt syrup for honey). Yes they’re redolent with protein, bound up with eggs and ground almonds. Yes they’re muddle and mix. But mostly, they’re just very good for morale.

This is a week for celebrating mandarins, as our latest stowaway unfurls to the proportions of …

Baked Plum and Almond Oatmeal

03:32 PM, July 5, 2016 |

40 weeks of feasting, almonds, baking, Breakfast, feeding a crowd, In the kitchen

If you need an almost-crumble for breakfast; something to warm the cockles, make ahead and easily feed a crowd for brunch, skip straight to the recipe at the bottom. This baked oatmeal, glossy with plums and sweet with pear is probably what you’re looking for. Now of course you could substitute the nuts for seeds, use whatever milk you need, switch the oats for rolled quinoa, the pears for apple, berries or pitted cherries and the plums for any stone fruit that quivers your heart. But this week I’m all about plums.

I’m all about plums because yesterday we came out of the closet. This is another week in the game …

Poppyseed to Pumpkin; the sequel

03:17 PM, July 4, 2016 |

40 weeks of feasting

Those with sharp eyes may have twigged to this a few weeks ago.

The sequence of recipes I’ve been posting for the last few months hasn’t been coincidental. (In fact, it’s been done once before.) But it has been incredibly hopeful, tracking the progress of something that had its genesis in a speck, no larger than this full stop.

We kicked off this chapter of growing a human from the size of a poppyseed to a pumpkin on Mother’s Day, with a chicken, leek, porcini – and poppyseed pie.

It was a very good Mother’s Day indeed.

At that stage there was just baited hope and the results of a series of promising, …