cooking – KDD & Co

Desmond’s mince pies

By: Kate Davies Designs December 5, 2015January 4, 2016

baking, featured, food, recipe, Tombaking, Christmas, cooking, food, mince pies, recipe, riciarelli77 Comments

For many years, I’ve had a quiet obsession with riciarelli, which I first came across, flavoured with orange flower water, in Betty’s tea rooms in York. Betty’s only seem to sell these wee macaroon-y treats in Spring for some reason, so I had to persuade Tom (who does not need much persuading where baking is…

behind the scenes . . .

A couple of days ago, we announced the Seven Skeins Club – a venture we’ve been planning for many months, and which we hope will allow everyone who wants to to sample our lovely new Scottish wool. (If you are interested, you can read more about what the club involves here.) People have been writing…

domestic incidents

By: Kate Davies Designs July 31, 2011

food, vegetablesbaking, cooking, disaster70 Comments

Tom was out cycling. However many mysterious gels and powders he consumes, he is always ravenous when he gets back. So I decided to “surprise” him with some tasty home baking. I don’t bake very often. Tom poetically described them as “little piles of cat sick”. At least my peppers are doing well.

piccalilli

By: Kate Davies Designs February 7, 2009February 8, 2009

food, Historychutney, cookery, cooking, food, food history, History, piccallili, pickle12 Comments

While Tom made piccalilli, I thought about pickles in Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, and then spent a happy couple of hours investigating the condiment’s eighteenth-century origins. The earliest instance I could find of a recipe resembling what we now know as piccalilli, was in the 1768 edition of Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery, where it…

as you were

By: Kate Davies Designs October 19, 2008

craft, food, knittingbaking, cake, cooking, fell running, healing, hill running, Jane Grigson, knitting, pear and ginger cake, printing, running, walshes9 Comments

It feels as if things are returning to ‘normal’. The physios are very pleased with Tom’s progress. He must now punish the healed-up hand with constant exercise to regain maximum mobility, and is also allowed to do everyday things again. Today we both went for a run in the hills. Time to fire up my…

always a fresh egg a’piece

By: Kate Davies Designs September 3, 2008September 3, 2008

foodbaking, Border tarts, cooking, food, Lancashire Tea, tea, Yorkshire Tea18 Comments

Let me start with a disclaimer. I do not work for Yorkshire Tea. I do not know anyone who works for Yorkshire Tea. I apologise for any unseemly brand promotion. But I heart Yorkshire Tea. There are many anachronistic elements to my Yorkshire Tea obsession. The first is that I originally hail from Lancashire. In…

place

By: Kate Davies Designs July 30, 2008

food, landscape, walkingcooking, food, place15 Comments

There are two places in the world I miss when I’m not there. One is Philadelphia. I love Philly. Present location excepted, it is my all-time favourite city, and a truly great place to live. Part of the reason I am preoccupied with it it is because I’m writing a book about it. (Well, I’m…