I'm in Oxford and have been for a little over a week, and since I've been here I've been cooking with and for my family. It's super-gratifying to make food that people really enjoy, and it reminds me how much I love to cook. Since I've been here I have made: Nigella Lawson's Sicilian Chicken from Forever Summer with my friend Kay, and it was a ( Read more... )

While exblogger and I were visiting his parents in Alabama, I noticed that his mother had both a Kitchen-Aid Artisan mixer and a jelly roll type cookie sheet with a lip all the way around. Now, both of these facts together reminded me of a recipe of Nigella Lawson's that I've wanted to try for, literally, years. It's called a Chocolate Raspberry Pavlova, ( Read more... )