Ruth Pengelly

Baking a cake to suit your own tastes is surprisingly easy, but most people just don’t have the confidence to give it a go and add their favourite flavours. In this series, I will give you the basic steps you need to make a cake with the opportunity to...

If you have invested a whole £2.50 on a pumpkin to carve this year, don’t waste all the insides once you have your jack-o-lantern! Here are two simple recipes that use up all the insides that you would normally just throw away: Toasted Pumpkin Seeds Even if you normally...

After the dismissal of Selasi last Wednesday (sob), we are left with the final three contestants, who have, against all odds, made it to the final: Jane, Candice and Andrew. They are all amazing bakers with their own individual strengths and weaknesses, but who is likely to bag the...

As part of my current attempt to go vegan (watch this space!), I visited Nottingham’s very own vegan market in Sneinton. It is held on the first Saturday of every month from 11am until 3pm and aims to support the vegan community – producers, traders and customers. My first...

Are you bored with having the same old cereal everyday? Unimpressed with toast? Well maybe it’s time to shake things up a bit, push the boat out and try something different for a change.  We strongly suggest having a go at… kedgeree! Before you turn up your nose or say...

As students, most of us are on a tight budget when it comes to food (alcohol is a different story, but let’s ignore that). Despite this, we are a generation who appear to be caring more and more about the quality of our food and where it comes from,...

Fresher’s week is hard for us foodies. Having to deal with ‘Fresher’s Flu’, meeting loads of new people, a big move into (not always nice) accommodation, multiple drunken nights out… well it doesn’t leave us with much energy to cook. Unfortunately, when you’re hungover, a nice meal is sometimes...