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Cinnamon rolls, twists and wreaths: one recipe, four shapes

December 18, 2018 laura Leave a Comment

Breakfast for us kids on Christmas morning was always cinnamon rolls: the soft, billowy kind with a simple filling of brown sugar and cinnamon and a sugary glaze, sometimes flavoured with orange, sometimes ‘regular’.  We would eat from the outside, … [Read more...]

Cinnamon, Ingredients, Recipes, Sweet bread recipes, holiday recipes

Toscakaka: Scandinavian caramelised almond cake

December 15, 2018 laura Leave a Comment

This is a cake beyond the ordinary.  I encountered Toscakaka (Tosca cake) years ago in Norway, where it is well-loved throughout the year.  I associate it mostly with Christmas, however, as the best I had there was baked by a lovely woman named Elsa, … [Read more...]

Almonds, Buttermilk, Ingredients, Places, Posts, Recipes, Sweet, Travel cake recipes, holiday recipes, Scandinavian recipes

Finding time in the festive season

December 2, 2016 laura Leave a Comment

[This is one in a series of Crumbs on the Table columns published in Cambridge Magazine.  It includes recipes for a lightly curried Salmon Egg Gratin that's a do-ahead boon for lunch, brunch, dinner or as part of a holiday buffet; plus a whimsical … [Read more...]

Articles, Chocolate, Cream, Ginger, Ingredients, Places, Posts, Recipes, Salmon, Savory, Seasonal, Sweet, Winter cake recipes, casseroles, do ahead recipes, gluten free recipes, holiday recipes

Thanksgiving cornbread stuffing

November 24, 2016 laura 2 Comments

This is the dish that means Thanksgiving to me.  It's a recipe handed down by my mother and I treasure it as much for that as for its taste.  It's a family-heirloom, with roots in my mother's Texas childhood, though she learned to make it for herself … [Read more...]

Autumn, Chestnuts, Chicken, Cornmeal, Ingredients, Places, Posts, Recipes, Savory, Seasonal, Turkey family recipes, holiday recipes, memoir, Southern food, Thanksgiving recipes

Cambridge in December: festive partridge and pear

December 15, 2015 laura Leave a Comment

I’m re-thinking my holiday checklist, and perfection isn’t on it. It is mid-December and there is so much to do -- cards, presents, tree, the turkey, the cake -- and that’s not even considering work and day-to-day survival in the meantime. The only … [Read more...]

Articles, Autumn, Ginger, Ingredients, Lettuces and salad leaves, Parsnip, Partridge, Pears, Places, Pomegranate, Posts, Recipes, Savory, Seasonal, Sweet, Winter game, ginger biscuit, gingerbread recipe, holiday recipes, main course salads, moulded gingerbread

What you will find here

Crumbs on the Table  is a food blog with tested recipes, and stories about food.  I aim to share the best recipes I know, and something of their context: the places they come from, … More

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Pink Lady Food Photographer of the year 2019 - Highly Commended
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Recent Posts

  • Wholesome carrot breakfast-muffins, and a finely textured carrot cake
  • Chicken breasts with black olive tapenade, roasted red peppers & prunes in puff pastry — and other ideas for a different Christmas
  • Caramel cake distraction bake
  • Tamale pie
  • Sicilian pasta ‘ncasciata: pasta bake with aubergine
  • Rose and violet shortbread biscuits

Featured recipes

Napoli bream with pink peppercorns, coriander seeds and rosemary

Tuscan-style grape and walnut harvest bread

South African malva pudding with coconut and rum

Citrus jelly with passionfruit

Sweet potato quesadillas

Rhubarb sponge crumble

Asparagus and pea ravioli

Coffee crème caramel 

Apricot pie

Garlic soufflé

Fish with grilled cucumber

Baked gooseberry caramel pudding

Chocolate rose cake

Sicilian vanilla gelato

Celery, stilton and sage tart

Fresh coconut cake and cream pie

Duck legs braised with beans and herbs

Roasted tomato soupRoasted tomato soup with coconut milk

Chez Panisse almond tart

Dobosh torteDobosh torte step-by-step

IMG_9245Baked chicken with potato, tomato and parmesan

Chocolate pots de crème

Peach and prosciutto panzanella

banana chocolate chip barBanana chocolate chip bars

Roast potato, chicken and bacon salad

Norwegian waffles

MK's Profiterole PontresinaProfiteroles Pontresina

Bong's chicken with artichokes

Books and Blogs

I share with you here some of the cookbooks, blogs, food memoirs, and other culinary writings I have found most delicious, intriguing, and helpful over the years.  This … More

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For the Guild of Food Writers photo challenge for For the Guild of Food Writers photo challenge for today, this is Bianca, sitting underneath the counter where Fabio and Annarella crack open the nuts from their organic trees at Zisolhouse Farm in Sicily. And of course why wouldn’t a kitten sit on a bed of almonds and hazelnuts? #thegfw2021 #theGFW28 #zisolhouse
Caramel sheet cake: one more SWEET for the Guild o Caramel sheet cake: one more SWEET for the Guild of Food Writers daily photo challenge because I’m greedy.  Recipe on Crumbs on the Table.  #theGFW2021 #theGFW27
#thegfw2021 #thegfw27 Sicilian pastries for the Gu #thegfw2021 #thegfw27 Sicilian pastries for the Guild of Food Writers word of the day. SWEET they are.... It’s nearly impossible to go on holiday to Sicily and not wear a perpetual dusting of icing sugar.
Duck legs braised in red wine with beans and herbs Duck legs braised in red wine with beans and herbs, for today’s Guild of Food Writers photo challenge. Recipe on Crumbs on the Table. #thegfw2021 #thegfw26
#thegfw2021 #thegfw25 The Guild of Food Writers ph #thegfw2021 #thegfw25 The Guild of Food Writers photo challenge for today is ‘hero’. Here are my two, celebrating, as we love to do, around the family table.  Longing for the return of those days.
#TheGFW2021 #TheGFW21 Whimsical cat cookie: my l #TheGFW2021 #TheGFW21  Whimsical cat cookie:  my light-hearted contribution to the Guild of Food Writer’s ‘animal’ theme for today.
#THEGFW21 #THEGFW20 Pasta as staple, this one wit #THEGFW21 #THEGFW20  Pasta as staple, this one with lemon, butter, parmesan... all staples in our house. Recipe: https://www.crumbsonthetable.co.uk/sicilian-fast-food-lemon-spaghetti/
Don’t you love a carrot cake? Good old-fashione Don’t you love a carrot cake?  Good old-fashioned greedy pleasure.  This one is finely textured, and sometimes plays a three-layer stunner, and sometimes whimsical cupcakes decorated with little carrot cookies.  My family in the States loves these and I so wish I could bake for them right now.  So I asked a kind chef near them to make them for my loved ones there using this recipe, and the response was just what I’d hoped it would be:  a lift of the spirits on both sides of the ocean. : - )  win win.  Sometimes something delicious really helps!  Recipe here: https://www.crumbsonthetable.co.uk/wholesome-carrot-breakfast-muffins-and-a-finely-textured-carrot-cake/#more-3101
The brilliant palette of colour and flavours for a The brilliant palette of colour and flavours for an exotic fruit salad to go with vegan coconut, pineapple and banana ice cream.  Recipe: https://www.crumbsonthetable.co.uk/sweet-potato-quesadillas-with-all-the-fixings-and-dairy-free-coconut-pineapple-and-banana-ice-cream/
A bright plate of exotic fruits with a coconut, pi A bright plate of exotic fruits with a coconut, pineapple and banana ice cream that happens to be vegan.  Tastes so refreshing and cheering right now.  I love the beautiful Bermuda-blue plate, made by my very talented sister Kitty.  Makes me feel I’m diving into a beautiful sea whenever I use it.  Recipe here for the fruity pud:  https://www.crumbsonthetable.co.uk/sweet-potato-quesadillas-with-all-the-fixings-and-dairy-free-coconut-pineapple-and-banana-ice-cream/
I love the colour and freshness of all these veget I love the colour and freshness of all these vegetables, which make the do-ahead quesadillas.  Instead of sweet potato, I’ve also used grated butternut and other winter squashes, available locally.  Recipe: https://www.crumbsonthetable.co.uk/sweet-potato-quesadillas-with-all-the-fixings-and-dairy-free-coconut-pineapple-and-banana-ice-cream/
As well as trying to jazz up breakfast during lock As well as trying to jazz up breakfast during lockdown, I also like to put together a do-it-yourself healthy quesadilla kit we can assemble through the week for lunch.  This is one of my favourites:  spicy sweet potato, beetroot lime relish, avocado guacamole, some fresh spinach leaves, and tomato coriander salsa.  Keep everything in pots in the fridge along with some grated cheese and the tortillas, and when it’s time, everyone can assemble and toast through their quesadilla how and when they like it.  Handy, healthy, colourful and cheering.  Recipes on Crumbs on the Table: https://www.crumbsonthetable.co.uk/sweet-potato-quesadillas-with-all-the-fixings-and-dairy-free-coconut-pineapple-and-banana-ice-cream/
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