Category Archives: Food

I’m quite interested in food. Not just the eating, but everything from growing the ingredients, fundamental methods of cooking and preserving that have withstood the ravages of time and laziness to the fusion of influences from across the world.

This section of my website generally holds recipes that I value, either because I think they’re interesting enough that other people might want to read them too, or simply so that I can find them again in the future.

Homemade salted caramel and honeycomb ice cream

Homemade salted caramel and honeycomb ice cream, by .

Homemade Salted Caramel and Honeycomb ice cream

Homemade Salted Caramel and Honeycomb ice cream

Spring is finally here! Lambs are gambolling in the field, birds are tweeting and the sun is actually casting a shadow, so that means it’s time for another batch of ice cream. This isn’t the first time I’ve made salted caramel ice cream, nor the first time I’ve made it all from scratch, but this is the first time I’ve written down the recipe so I don’t have to work it out next time. This combines the texture of a frozen custard with the caramel flavour and the popcorn crunch of honeycomb to make a frozen tasty treat that’s packed full of unhealthiness.

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Salted caramel sauce

Caramel Sauce

Caramel Sauce


Making caramel is hard, but making a caramel sauce at home is surprisingly easy, taking three ingredients and just a matter of a few minutes, albeit a few minutes of paying close attention to the stove with a whisk.

I’ve got a few uses for caramel sauce and I wanted to write down my recipe so that Google can find it more easily for me next time.

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Christmas Flapjack

Christmas flapjack.

Christmas Flapjack

A couple of weeks ago, Holly Bell’s recipe for Christmas Flapjacks caught my eye. I normally can’t leave well alone and this is no exception, I’ve fiddled with Holly’s recipe a bit so that it’s slightly thicker and packs a bigger punch (also I had no rice crispies in stock), but I can take no credit for coming up with this one. I mean, grated marzipan? That’s just genious. There aren’t many words with this recipe because it really is very simple, but I think the results are very good indeed. It stores for at least two weeks in greaseproof paper in an airtight container.

It’s hard to describe just how tasty and sweet this is, but start with all the buttery goodness of flapjack, then layer it with sweet crispy marzipan, spicy mincemeat, crispy and chewy oats and cereal with pockets of juicy intense fruit. Decadent, and also quite handy for high energy food if you’re out Hill Walking.

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