Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
These blueberry muesli muffins are super simple to make, and they’re a great way to use up that box of old muesli hiding in the back of your cupboard. It’s a perfect recipe for lazy Sunday morning baking. Imposter syndrome There has been a discernible shift, of late, and I think now is as …
Baked doughnuts are super simple to make with a Tala Performance non-stick mini ring doughnut muffin pan. In this yeast-free recipe, lemon zest, lemon extract and lavender flowers are combined to make delicious, fluffy, moist, perfectly baked doughnuts with a fragrant lavender icing sugar glaze. This post is in collaboration with Tala.
These crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside oatmeal raisin cookies are reminiscent of childhood. Delicately spiced with cinnamon, they get even better the next day. These cookies are one of my absolute favourite cookie recipes. The recipe is slightly adapted (and UK-ified) from one that I used to make in my …
Fresh strawberries and balsamic vinegar are a match made in heaven. These quick and easy strawberry shortcakes take no time to whip up and they taste utterly amazing! Perfect for a summer picnic! “Mum, do you know what I really, really want?” our youngest son (aged 8 and 1/4) asked recently. “What’s that?” I enquired. …
This traditional Cape Breton Island fruit scone recipe tastes delicious warm with butter and honey or jam. A perfect afternoon ‘down east’ tea time treat. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 36 hours Difficulty: Easy A childhood in Canada I am the daughter of an army brat. Although I was born on a military base …
In collaboration with Jamie Oliver Bakeware. It’s that time of year again when segments of gorgeous, organic, vibrant orange sugar pumpkins start arriving in my veg box. My most favourite thing to make with these pumpkins is my adaptation of my grandmother’s pumpkin loaf recipe or roasted pumpkin soup with fried sage and white truffle oil, but …
One batch, twelve flavours, in collaboration with Crock Pot. I do love a good cupcake, me. What’s better than a good cupcake? A selection of good cupcakes! Who has the time though (or the waistline) so make six or twelve dozen cupcakes to get a variety of flavours to serve at an afternoon tea party. …
You’ll never need another banana bread recipe after trying this one! Every family has their own favourite banana bread recipe, right? This one is ours.
Courgettes are reproducing at pace in my vegetable crisper. Seriously. Every year the same thing happens. You see, I get this fantastic locally grown weekly organic box filled with all sorts of wonderful goodies – kohlrabi, fresh peas, tomatoes, spicy Chinese greens (my favourite!), last week an Indian Kheera cucumber…. and courgettes, among many other …
The wandering traveller has returned home, for the foreseeable future – or at least until the wanderlust strikes again! I’m home now from a week’s camping in Norway (It was heaven! A blog post will follow soon!) which followed our family trip to Brussels that was close on the heels of my epic two week …
A cinnamon scented breakfast muffin recipe packed full of carrots, apples and dates. It’s become a bit of a yearly tradition now, with my birthday being at the start of December, for my Canadian grandmother to send me a cookery book and a pair of earrings as a combined birthday Christmas gift. With overseas post …
In collaboration with Bake Box. Silicone baking moulds have to be one of the best inventions to hit the baking world, ever. Yet they scare me. Especially elaborate silicone bundt moulds with all sorts of little nooks and crannies for cake to get stuck into, entirely ruining the look of a bake. I confess that …
I miss trees. Where I grew up in rural Cape Breton, on the east coast of Canada, we had more trees than you could imagine. Most of my childhood was spent in them, falling out of them, getting lost in them, and on many an occasion, eating from them. There were so many wild apple …
This light and fluffy gluten-free Tunisian orange cake is soaked in citrus syrup for a fragrant, incredibly delicious bake perfect with a cup of tea. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 50 minutes Difficulty: Easy Day’s off spent baking I had a proper day off yesterday. I woke early with no imminent deadlines to worry …
This deliciously crunchy, buttery oatcakes recipe is made in true Cape Breton style. Serve with plenty of butter, cheese, or jam and a cup of hot tea to dunk! Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy Traditional Cape Breton recipes ‘The Scots’, observed G. Bisset-Smith in 1907, ‘are a notoriously migratory people’. …
In collaboration with Dr. Oetker Baking. I absolutely love organizing and throwing birthday parties for my children. It’s one of those things I can get completely immersed in what with all the planning and creativity. I also might be overcompensating for the fact I’ve never had a birthday party of my own! They don’t get …
This half batch of deliciously spiced blueberry muffins is made with leftover Weetabix and other store-cupboard ingredients; perfect for a weekend brunch or after-school snack. Prep Time: 25 minutes Cooking Time: 35 minutes Difficulty: Easy The pre-recipe blurb no one actually reads I really don’t like Weetabix* I’m all for the low-sugar, high-fibre thing they’re …
Because sometimes chocolate chunk cookies are required. I’ve made cookies! Regular readers will be aware that it’s been ages since I’ve posted anything even remotely sweet and indulgent like a cookie or cake recipe. That’s because I’ve not been making such treats, or anything even hinting at calorific as I attempt to lose the extra …
For a leisurely late morning breakfast. Nothing beats a leisurely late morning breakfast when you’ve got all the time in the world to enjoy it. Good coffee, home bakes, quality preserves and a cheeky glass of… Prosecco?! This is what my husband and I indulged in the other day.
because even raisins love a generous nip of dark rum When I first started delving into the wonderful world of baking, around the age of 12, one of the first recipes I ever made was a basic cinnamon roll. It had a baking powder-raised scone base topped with plenty of butter, cinnamon sugar and raisins. …
