nic cooks

Last week I experienced the worst possible mishap a food blogger can have in the kitchen; my oven broke.  This means no more baking until I get my new kitchen.  Yes, that is correct; although I am currently frustrated by the lack of oven I can put up with the inconvenience as it has accelerated [...]

This months Sweet Adventures Blog Hop has a tropical theme for summer.  Hosted by Nic from Dining with a Stud, she challenged us to make a dessert fit for a tropical paradise. Tropical and exotic are kind of interchangeable in my world.  If we’re talking fruits, we’re talking all of those fruit that were not [...]

Father Christmas comes down the chimney: fact.  Well at least that’s what I believed when I was four years old.  I was devastated the year we moved house and I realised there was no chimney.  That was also the year that I learnt that Father Christmas is very resourceful.  Apparently there is absolutely nothing to [...]

This Christmas I feel privileged to be able to share with you, my sister-in-law’s Christmas cookie recipe.  My sister-in-law is from the Czech Republic and every year at Christmas she makes hundreds of cookies to share with family and friends.  Vanocni Cukrovi or Christmas cookies are a Czech tradition.  There are literally hundreds of different [...]

Who would have thought I could get inspiration for a dessert from a computer shop?  And no, before you say it, I’m not baking with apples.  I was checking out a new tablet device, perusing the apps, when naturally I was drawn to the cooking one.  It just so happened the page it opened to [...]