I mentioned in my November In My Kitchen Post that I had dried fruits, glace fruits and nuts soaking in brandy and orange juice in preparation for making two Christmas cakes. Here is one of the cakes and this one if gluten-free but if you don’t need to have a gluten-free cake all you need […]
Spiced Apple Sauce
November 8, 2013 By 37 Comments
Peddling back to when I made the rolled loin of pork for the lunch we enjoyed with friends last Sunday, I also made apple sauce. I’m sure you would agree that if you’re going to crunch on crackling, it can only be all the better for dipping it into apple sauce. However, I have an […]
Chocolate Whiskey Balls and…Christmas Eve Trauma
June 10, 2013 By 43 Comments
My parents like to organise holidays for our whole family however lately there have been some comments from my family directed at my family like, ‘But there’s no hospital in the area’, and, ‘But I don’t think the medical centre is open after hours’, and, ‘Do you still have medical insurance?’ It’s as if we’re […]
Incaberries and…The Morning Ritual
April 14, 2013 By 56 Comments
I think I’ve mentioned, (probably numerous times) that Arabella is onto a new eating regime where basically everything I buy deserves a roll of the eyes. It’s because the boyfriend with no tattoos from the neck up, is health conscious. And in between he and Arabella’s five break-ups and six getting-back-togethers, this new eating regime […]
Caribbean Christmas Cake and…An Autopsy
February 4, 2013 By 56 Comments
My mother’s birthday was a few weeks ago and a celebration was certainly due so I invited mum and dad over for dinner. At the time the invitation went out I had no idea what I would cook and as much as I tried I couldn’t focus on the event because the annual council clean […]
Boxing Day
December 30, 2012 By 38 Comments
Sometimes it’s just not enough to get together on Christmas Day, you have to spend Boxing Day together too. Christmas is the ultimate celebration but with a large family it can be hectic and stressful and busy and challenging. No one in my family would swap this for any different experience but despite this, there’s […]
Christmas 2012
December 27, 2012 By 41 Comments
I’ve been wondering how you all celebrated Christmas and hope you had the best of days and thought I would give you a glimpse into how my family and I spent Christmas. After much debate and at least 60 emails it was decided Christmas would, as usual, be at my parents’ house which is actually […]
Merry Christmas 2012
December 24, 2012 By 48 Comments
All of us here at Hotly Spiced Headquarters would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. We hope you have a lovely time spending time with family and catching up with relatives and friends. Enjoy the best the season has to offer and we’ll see you in a few days. In the meantime, please […]
The Gingerbread House
December 23, 2012 By 37 Comments
It hasn’t been a good day in the kitchen here at Hotly Spiced Headquarters. I wasn’t going to make a gingerbread house this year; mostly because the December 25 deadline is hurtling towards me at a frightening pace and in the last few weeks I’ve been incredibly busy and I know from experience that gingerbread […]
Mum’s Christmas Mince Pies
December 21, 2012 By 38 Comments
In the lead-up to Christmas when I was a little girl we knew the big day was close when in the evening we would be dressed in our nighties and sitting in the family room doing puzzles or colouring-in when we’d hear the sound of carols coming from a big brass band. We would run […]
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