Cologne is a truly beautiful city sat on the banks of the river Rhine – the famous Gothic cathedral stands firm in the middle of the city – when I [ … ]
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The Essence of Baking – Adding Flavour To Your Cake
The ever changing world of baking I thought it would be good to explore some essences, having experimented with a banana bread or 2 it seemed to me that the [ … ]
King Oyster is a Fungi To Have Around
Mushrooms are a food staple, much like marmite I think you either love them or hate them. For many years the latter was very much the case – the texture [ … ]
To New Beginnings & The Journey of a Lifetime
The pandemic has given me much food for thought, as it has done many others. You come to a realization that you cannot stop yourself from doing what you truly [ … ]
Egg Free Chocolate Cake with Coffee Buttercream
The search for the perfect chocolate cake recipe is all but over, as I have discussed previously I like to do vegan cakes due to being stingy with my eggs [ … ]
Tahini Butter Cream & Other Tales
As you might already know I am back to baking a cake each weekend partly due to frugality but also because I am starting to be more aware about what [ … ]
WeTheFew.co.uk – Coming soon
I will be launching my new domain wethefew.co.uk soon – of course onlynomeswriting.co.uk will still point to this website but I am excited about this new step in my journey. [ … ]
Oil or Butter? A Cake Dilemma
I was taught to make sponge cakes with the creaming method, this means that butter was creamed together with the sugar as a base for the cake. Unless your butter [ … ]
Coming Soon: We The Few – Girls On Tour
We The Few has now been out for a few months and understandably the girls (Rachel, Meg and Kate) are eager to get out and meet some of their potential [ … ]
Did You Join The Bogus 10k Club?
Do you walk 10k steps a day? Should you be walking 10k steps a day? The origins of the magical 10k can be found around the time of the 1964 [ … ]