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 [...]

The great thing about cheese is there is something for everyone. There is strong cheese or mild cheese. Soft cheese or hard cheese.  Goat, cow or sheep milk cheese. Fresh cheese or mature cheese.  Processed cheese or Artisan cheese.  Mouldy cheese. Whatever the cheese you’ll have one or two types that are your favourite and [...]

Six months in and now we are getting serious. I have been putting off writing this post as I thought I was going to be writing a post of doom, gloom and disaster.  But yesterday I finally plucked up the courage to taste my Asiago and it took me by surprise. It was not the [...]

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 [...]

This is my final post for 2012 and of course it has to be cheese! After receiving a cheese making kit for Christmas last year I haven’t looked back.  My New Year’s resolution was to teach myself to make cheese and “By jove, I thinks she’s got it!” Well I still have a lot to [...]