Jo Wheatley Home Baking

Review: Jo Wheatley Home Baking

Most people will know Jo Wheatley as the much loved winner of the Great British Bake Off in 2011. Home Baking is the second book she has released, the first being A Passion For Baking. This book definitely has a similar cover style as the other GBBO books. If you look at the cover, it…

Comfort Food Cookbook

Review: Comfort Food Cookbook by Editors of Grit Magazine

Since the temperatures are often dipping below freezing at the moment, it’s not surprising our thoughts turn to comfort food, something satisfying, familiar and warming. This book is produced by Grit, an American magazine, using traditional American down home style recipes (although the inclusion of Toad In The Hole was a surprise), but most of…

handmade gifts from the kitchen

Review: Handmade Gifts From The Kitchen by Alison Walker

I was very excited to get an opportunity to review this book. For a few years now, I have handmade Christmas gifts for friends and family, so this was a book after my own heart. Alison Walker is the Food & Drink editor for Country Living Magazine. In her introduction, she extols the virtues of…

Review: Sweet and Vicious: Baking With Attitude

Libbie Summers sounds like my kinda gal. Her advice at the beginning of the book is be fearless, be inspired, be creative, and most importantly, have fun. The subtitle of this recipe book is Baking With Attitude and I have to say I like anyone that does anything with attitude. It is an approach I…

Review: Macarons by Mowie Kay

Before I start this review, here is an informative graphic, just so that we are all on the same page. I recently reviewed Mowie Kay’s Easy To Make Doughnuts, and one of the things that I was most taken by was the beautiful photographs within. Kay has not disappointed with this book either. There is…