Home Baking

91. Any Time Cakes and a Rome round-up

It's been a while but it's good to speak with you again! Today I'm talking about what I saw and ate in Rome... and 3 chic 'any time' cakes including an orange ring cake m

90. Half Cold: Adventures in Home Made Vienetta (and egg yolk cookies!)

After a very eventful few months and a long hiatus, we are so back!! And I'm finally talking about semi-freddo and DIY Vienetta, including my base recipe and a Snickers s

89. I Love Olive Oil

In this episode Rin speaks about why olive oil is so important and fantastic; choosing the right olive oil for baking; and no less than 6 recipes using olive oil. There's

88. Big, knobbly sweet breads

This episode is inspired by brunsviger and sweet focaccia. I talk a little about each, share a base recipe then three topping ideas: dark brown sugar with cinnamon, salte

87. A baker with no oven

In this episode I talk about adapting to temporarily not having an oven, responsible foraging, wild garlic scones and ricotta pancakes with berry compote (both of which c

86. Better Brownies

In the second of my revisits to old topics, we're thinking about brownies. The most decadent brownies, the most balanced brownies, the most different brownies. Perfection

85. Lessons in Shortbread

All the things I've gotten wrong... some things I've gotten right... and things I do differently now since episode 1. I also talk about things I've been eating recently i

84. Things that taste like donuts

...and some actual donuts! In this episode we're looking back on the best bakes of 2023 and talking about 3 donut or donut-adjacent things: a giant donut bundt cake, appl

83. Lemon + Pastry = Magic?

In this episode I try my hand at lemon shortbread (for the purposes of this episode I am counting shortbread as pastry), lemon bars, lemon meringue pie and lemon shaker p

82. Milky and tart set puddings, plus all-about Ammardeen

This week we're talking about a delicious lime posset (creamy set pudding from England) and a light milk pudding from the middle East called muhallabieh. Plus we'll deep-

81. Granita and brioche, a perfect breakfast

In this episode I talk about my summer of eating, how granita is served in Sicily and then four recipes - feel free to mix and match or come up with your own combinations

80. Ice Cream Sandwiches!

4 wonderful recipes to make 2 ice cream sandwiches: raspberry sorbet with corn cookies; chocolatey cookies with mint choc chip ice cream. Plus a love letter to the combin

79. Syrup Semolina Cakes (& a craggly walnut cake)

In this episode, I'm talking about semolina syrup cakes, common in many countries in the Balkans, Eastern Med, Middle East and North Africa. They're great, and I make two

78. Summer Galettes: 3 sweet, 1 savoury

One pastry, three summer fruits: slow roasted strawberry, plum and halva, apricot and almond. Plus a bonus cheesy, garlicky tomato galette for your consideration! What

77. Pavlova: Dessert Without Borders

In this podcast I'm passing on all the wisdom I've gleaned from my crazed Pav obsession, including how to layer flavours in the meringue, cream and fruit and the hacks an

76. Crackers, Crispbreads and Eating Out

An endlessly adaptable recipe for crackers and crispbreads, with numerous flavouring suggestions. Plus a food diary of some stuff I've stuffed into my face in the last fe

75. Yes Please to Portuguese Baking!

In today's episode, I'm talking about what monks and nuns have to do with egg yolks, the wide array of conventual sweets and the influence of Portuguese baking around the

74. Cereal Offenders - Delicious Cookies and Bars

This episode is all about using breakfast cereal in baking and sweet treats. Plus I talk a bit about the history of ascetic Christianity and how that's shaped breakfast i

73. This is England...

UPDATE: For some reason the segments were messed up and incomplete initially. I have now corrected this. In this episode I'm talking about some traditional British bakes

72. Sweet Somethings - Fudge and Honeycomb

In this episode Kate talks about the history of fudge and what the word fudge means and talks through three recipes: proper salted vanilla fudge, cheat's 2-ingredient mil