Despite the fact that I didn’t take my camera with me on my recent trip to Poland (hence the less than flattering photo), and the fact that this is hardly festive (actually, in retrospect, the cloves and allspice give this a great Christmas smell), I...

When I was sent these pictures recently of the Realepicurean reader Jane’s version of our Zebra Cake recipe, I couldn’t resist but to share them with you.  She baked it for her daughter Courtney’s 13th Birthday back in August (a belated Happy...

Remember the old nursery rhyme “Little Miss Muffet” (she sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey)?  Well when I was younger I didn’t even know what curds or whey were.  Come to think of it, I always thought that “curdled” referred to milk that had...

I must have been half asleep when I took the beetroot out of the water in which it had been simmering and cut into it.  Despite them having an orangey tint to the outer skin I still didn’t realise and fully expected to see purple flesh inside; imagine...