Introduction

The first post is always the trickiest.

I suppose a little introduction is fitting.

I'm Jen and I'm interested in cooking and baking. I have a little red recipe book in which I am constantly jotting down recipes and tips that interest me. Leafing through this book is mildly confusing, as I have recipes from all over the world, both sweet and savoury. This is, I think, due to my curiosity.

I like to travel, and when I go abroad I always make sure I eat locally, trying as many as the traditional dishes as I can. When I taste something I like, I try to figure out what it's made of, then research it when I get home. (Often trawling through foreign languages, bad translations and crazy methods) Then I make it myself, thrust it upon others to try and, if it's a success, it goes in my recipe book.

Now I have a wadge of recipes - and it's growing - I thought I'd share some of them with the world. Perhaps people would like to try something new, but don't want to have to figure out what people are writing in another language, or compare several recipes for one thing, or indeed watch videos on YouTube in Russian that aren't subtitled... (This was last week. That will definitely be a post soon!)

I'm also an adept cake decorator, who has taught herself the art of working with sugarpaste/gumpaste and icing. I think I'm finally in a position to share my experiences and tips as an amateur decorator!

Also on this blog will be links, pictures and videos of things related to baking and travel that have caught my eye.

So, here we go.