Baking at weekends is a real treat. It satisfies MTs routine for a cake with afternoon tea and gives me a chance to keep practising my cake making skills. I wasn’t in the mood for failure so thought about doing a carrot cupcake recipe that my mother-in-law had... It seems that they don’t make things like they used to. I inherited my mum’s Kenwood mixer and it’s been doing wonderful service and I don’t hold it responsible at all for any of my baking disasters. That’s more than can be said for my... Being able to bake well is becoming a bit of an obsession for me. I have a long way to go to being really proficient at it. I don’t think that I’ve yet baked what I would consider to be the perfect cake. Perfect in the sense that it is the shape and... We’ve some new arrivals here at Domestic Executive HQ. Three cheery little chickens to add to our home birds. It’s all part of the strategy to build up the numbers so that the rooster can spread himself around a little more. I was given these chickens... Culinary porn is how my sister in law would describe my collection of recipe books. Books with pictures to admire. Books you salivate over and have fantasies about. Cookery books in our house are separated into books that are shelved in the pantry on hand for... 