Yesterday my new book ‘Nigella Christmas’ finally arrived. Today the first (and who knows last) snow of the season fell. We immediately got into the Holiday spirit. We lighted the fireplace, put on some festive music and started cooking and baking and drinking hot chocolate with a little extra. Leafing through the fresh pages of [...]

It’s 5 days until Christmas and the world around me is white. It’s just a little veneer of white, but it looks beautiful all the same. It has been freezing these last days and together with the fog, it has created a thin white coating on everything, including the branches of all the trees. In [...]

These festive muffins are great to bake for a Christmas morning breakfast. I especially love the moistness and the surprise, because every bite gives you a different combination of tastes and textures. I ‘invented’ these muffins because I wanted to use my home made candied orange peel and sweet marzipan. Together with the red cranberries [...]

In Jane Austen’s time, cakes often had caraway seeds in them. So you can envision Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth having tea with pound cake, rout cakes or hot Bath cakes and being left with a caraway seed or two stuck between their teeth. Unless these seeds were sugar coated into candied caraway seeds! For this [...]

I made this not too heavy berry trifle with orange zest for the family Christmas dinner. Of course I used my Emma Bridgewater Trifle bowl, which is only perfect for these occasions. Easily filled by 6 litres of anything and pounds of precious fruit just disappearing into nowhere, I ‘chose’ to fill it halfway but [...]