Do yourself a favour. If you’re a home cook who loves to bake, you could do so much worse than treat yourself to Belinda Jeffery’s ‘Mix & Bake’. Everything is explained, loads of great tips and the recipes I’ve found to be failsafe…always elegant but striving for simplicity. They’re country, they’re scrumptious and they’re grounded…
To kick us off, let me share my favourite recipe for molten chocolate puds. There are few other recipes so simple that are quite as sublime as this. I have tried many but have found this one by Gordon Ramsay to be failsafe if you follow all the steps and know your oven! I’m sure…
A lavender farmer, forced to walk a heroic pathway as the Nazis take France, just as he makes a shocking discovery into his past; and a dislocated woman with a dark past of her own, meet as Europe is swallowed by world war. They each have missions but then an enigmatic German enters their lives…
Click here for more about the novel or click here to view my video blog about The Lavender Keeper