RNIB podcast: Coronation Recipe For Easy Hot Water Pastry & Leek Tart
I featured on the RNIB podcast last week with my recipe for a coronation leek tart, using my hot water pastry. Click here for a link to the podcast.
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Coronation quiche for celiacs.
Hot water pastry makes less mess for blind bakers but also works with commercial “wheat/gluten-free” flour as I tested this week. Just adding a teaspoon of xanthium gum to the flours and we made individual pork pies and a “baked…
Lots of silliness.
Sound effects. The sous-chef has been away for days at a bee convention. We know he’s getting older, but technology really helps. His hearing aids connect to his mobile phone so I’m talking direct into his ears. On the other…
Speaking “across the pond”.
I am just like that talking tea pot in the film: round and warm and producing lots of hot air – in “Received Pronunciation!” That’s what they say in this clip: I was recording a long podcast with Mark and…
M4G Advocacy Media Podcast
The above clip is just a small part of my interview with Mark and Krystal at M4G Advocacy Media. Listen to the interview in full by clicking here;
Family “Crest”.
Delight this week. Brother Peter’s new laser cutter and fabulous skills have transformed our whimsical wedding crest (Commando dagger, WRNS fouled anchor, crossed white canes and Anjou fleur de lis – drawn by professional illustrator nephew Toby ) into a…
Baking Blind Coronation rehearsal.
Join Penny Melville-Brown on Monday 24 April at 1030 (London time) for a special free on-line cooking demonstration of a cake fit for the King. Thanks to Open Sight Hampshire, you can sign up for free at This wonderfully…
Happy Easter.
Yesterday I was compared with a talking teapot! The one in “beauty and the Beast”. Apparently, to transatlantic ears, I sound like the late Dame Angela Lansbury whom the older of us will remember from “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” and “Murder…
This house is just too small!
Too pathetic. bemoaning the problem that I brought on myself. Not enough storage space for new cooking containers, pans, and more bought on an utterly wicked day at the Gunwharf outlet centre in Portsmouth. Now I need to find new…
Cut out kitchen waste.
Some ideas to avoid food going “off” before you can eat it: Vegetables. Head of celery. Cut a very fine disc off the bottom, trying to avoid the stalks detaching. Place upright with the cut end in about an inch…