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Sourdough Brownies

13th February 2021 By Urvashi Roe

Decadent and fudgy brownies to use up sourdough starter discard. Easy to make and not too sweet.

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: baking, chocolate, cooking, food, GBBO, recipes, sourdough, sourdough discard

Sourdough Crackers

28th June 2020 By Urvashi Roe

Quick and easy sourdough crackers to use up your sourdough discard or extra starter. Customise for your own flavour combinations.

Filed Under: Light Bites, Recipes Tagged With: baking, biscuits, canape, crackers, food, GBBO, sourdough, sourdough discard

Sun. Spain. And … Anchovies

27th November 2019 By Urvashi Roe

A delicious dish inspired by a long weekend in Madrid filled with eating and exploring

Filed Under: Light Bites, Recipes, Salads Tagged With: anchovies, Madrid, Salad, sardines, Spain, travel

Little Chocolate Mousse Meringue Cups

7th November 2019 By Urvashi Roe

chocolate mousse pastry

I like making little treats. You can have one and feel totally sated rather than denying yourself completely. Good strategy huh? That’s how these little chocolate mousse meringue cups came about.   I was craving something fancy and chocolatey. But I had a full medical assessment recently and was also hearing the words of the […]

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: bonfire night, canape, chocolate, Christmas, GBBO, mousse, pastry, recipe

Cashew Coffee

18th November 2018 By Urvashi Roe

cashew, coffee

I have started to eat a handful of nuts in the morning. Almonds, Cashews, Brazil Nuts are what I current have in the cupboard. There are so many articles about nuts suppressing hunger, reducing calories consumed during the day blah blah blah. But I guess the main reason for me was to add protein into […]

Filed Under: Drinks

Chocolate Scrabble Biscuits

5th October 2018 By Urvashi Roe

cookie, biscuit, scrabble, urvashi roe

Do you play Scrabble? My husband and I have been playing for over 20 years. Sometimes cards and sometimes Scrabble. The score sheets are so old that we don’t bother anymore. In fact now the challenge is less about points but rather about the best word. Last Christmas I got some lovely Scrabble biscuit cutters. […]

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: baking, biscuit, chocolate, cookie, cooking, food, GBBO, recipes, scrabble

Courgette and Mint Curry

1st September 2018 By Urvashi Roe

curry, courgette, zucchini,

I love travelling. Especially travelling on holiday. But the problem with holidays is that you have to leave behind important everyday chores. I know what you;re thinking. “That’s the whole point of a holiday!”. I know. I know. But when you are away during quite possibly the hottest couple of weeks in the UK for […]

Filed Under: Light Bites, Main Meal, Recipes Tagged With: cooking, courgette, curry, curry for change, fast food, Gujarati, indian food, recipes, zuchinni

Honeysuckle Cheesecake

28th May 2018 By Urvashi Roe

Honeysuckle Cheesecake

This year my hayfever has been worse than I can remember. It’s around now in the season that it’s really bad. Almost everything locally has begun to flower at the same time.  From horse chestnut trees to honeysuckle. It’s all magnificently in bloom! I don’t think I’ve gone a day without sneezing in the whole […]

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: cheesecake, edible flowers, honeysuckle, ricotta

Vegan Wild Garlic and Sunflower Seed Pesto

13th May 2018 By Urvashi Roe

pesto, wild garlic, seeds

For the last few weeks, over a month even, I’ve been waiting. Waiting for just the right time. The right time to look over my shoulder, check nobody is watching and pick. Pick wild garlic to be precise. I’ve been running past it, detouring to take a peek and willing it to come up as […]

Filed Under: Preserves & Pickles, Recipes Tagged With: pesto, vegan, wild garlic

Pomegranate and Rose Shortbread (Cookies) 

7th April 2018 By Urvashi Roe

I do love a good biscuit don’t you? Having a cup of tea in the afternoon without a biscuit feels rather sad. Usually I send one of the girls across the road to the newsagent to get a packet of Rich Tea. Now that is a good biscuit. But today I wanted something rather different […]

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: biscuit, cookie, pomegranate, rose

Back to Normality with a Marshmallow Parkin

5th November 2017 By Urvashi Roe

parkin, bonfire, gingerbread

It’s been nearly two months now since our cafe closed. I stopped baking for a while. I stopped blogging  for a while too. Truth be told there was just too much still going on closing up accounts, getting rid of stock and equipment. All that alongside a full time job and overseas travel. Weekends just […]

Filed Under: Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: baking, bonfire night, food, GBBO, gingerbread, parkin

Autumnal Squash And Broad Bean Salad

12th November 2016 By Urvashi Roe

winter squash, broadbean and feta salad

Have you noticed how many varieties of pumpkin and squash there are nowadays? Perhaps it’s because I’ve only recently started to like eating them but I find that every market – even my local – has at least four or five to choose from. I have tried growing squash on the allotment but other than one […]

Filed Under: Salads Tagged With: feta, Pip, pumpkin, winter squash

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