A Half Baked Idea | Eat your heart out
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I'm Livvy, a food writer and cook. This is the story of how I patched up a mummy-shaped hole in my heart with pastry, bread dough and icing.
A Half Baked Idea | Eat your heart out
3y ago
A slight move away from my usual blog fodder, but one with good reason, and in the same spirit as my normal posts: celebrating food.
6 months ago, I turned 30. I’d recently left a job that I thought when entering it would be a lifelong career; it was a decision that was originally born in trauma, but made over a long period of time. By the time September and my big birthday rolled around, I’d left my job as a barrister, retrained in patisserie, and tentatively dipped my toe in the often very cold water of freelance journalism. It’s a scary thing: lurching between exquisite self-doubt, and man ..read more
A Half Baked Idea | Eat your heart out
3y ago
Baking in my household has been exam focused over the last three weeks, my kitchen filled with whisked sponges and beaten custards, marzipan roses spilling over my dining table. Suppers have been simple and unceremonious: my mum’s thoroughly inauthentic spag bol, eggs in various different guises, and my old failsafe, peanut butter noodles.
Now that exams are over, and all that’s left is a quick, clumsy bash at gumpaste flowers and cake decorating, I can turn my mind again to cooking properly and thoughtfully, using it as a form of headspace and quiet time. I feel slightly overwhelmed at the i ..read more