Blueberry and Bran Muffins

This is the perfect fruit muffin to bake at home. Loaded with fibre and laced with blueberries or even raspberries, these muffins are delicious and yet healthy enough to suit your children's or your work lunchboxes, your breakfast menu, or essential morning and afternoon teas. Dressed up in a pretty paper wrapper, and dusted with icing sugar over a layer of scented cinnamon, these muffins will impress. 

BKD Cookbook club, all things bready.....

 Hot Buttered Fruit and Nut Sourdough Toast for breakfast or anytime: makes 1 loaf

It's time again for BKD (Brookford Kitchen Diaries) cookbook club. Sometimes I manage to link up, sometimes not depending on whether or not life gets in the way. I'm promoting cookbooks in a circular kind of way in this post, and bread, yes I'm a fan. Most of my bread baking is with sourdough. This month we're talking about all things bread, whether it be toasties (formerly toasted sandwiches), jaffles or hamburgers. I am thinking sourdough, as that is what I mostly work with, however does pizza qualify? Why not I say, it's really an open Italian sandwich after all.

Ginger Scones, #ISW 2026

2026 International Scone Week

It's International Scone Week 2026, beginning on the 10th August, which is a celebration of scone making, and a shout out to all those cooks who have enjoyed baking a great scone over the years. The perfect scone is a joyous thing.  Let's have a conversation about scone making, over a cup of tea or coffee and eat a delicious warm scone. A memorable scone should have puffy height, a soft, tender crumb, be a little crisp on the outside, and shouldn't flake like a biscuit. This rustic style Ginger scone ticked all of those boxes. Thanks to Tandy from Lavender and Lime for continuing to host this event.