nic cooks

I’ve always liked the idea of making baked ricotta at home but I’ve never found the right ricotta to do it; until now.  I have started to make my own cheese and ricotta is the first type I have mastered (there’s not a lot to it). Some of the other cheeses are proving a little [...]

I know you thought I wouldn’t do it, but I’m back for my second Sweet Adventures Blog Hop and this month I am baking! This months hostess is Christina from The Hungry Australian and she invited us to create our most indulgent chocolate recipe.  As a non-dessert eater this one is probably the easiest challenge [...]

I now have four, fully fledged, egg laying chooks, that give me four eggs a day, all but four days a month they each have one day off a month). That’s a lot of eggs to deal with; despite giving some away to friends. So for 2012 I will be doing a series of posts [...]

To start, sorry, but I had to do it.  I’m not usually one to follow the crowd, but as all this hype surrounds my favourite chef Jamie Oliver, whether I was going to be disappointed or not, I had to give it a try.  When I say favourite, he’s probably not the chef who’s cooking [...]

Happy New Year! Following the year of meat in 2011, 2012 is going to be the year of cheese in the Midgley house. I got a cheese making kit for Christmas (it was an excellent Christmas present in 2009 that got me started with the sausage making, and Graham has realised that he can also [...]