Some good new news today, I have a brand new series coming out with the BBC again following ‘Baking Made Easy’ earlier in the year. Read more from the BBC website here.

“Following on from the success of Baking Made Easy, Lorraine Pascale spreads her culinary wings as she shares her delicious recipes, secrets, passion and know-how in a fabulous new feel-good series, Home Cooking Made Easy.”

Check out this lovely piece on The Guardian!

“Earlier this year, her first TV show, Baking Made Easy, was watched by more than 2 million people and the accompanying book was second only to Jamie Oliver’s 30-Minute Meals in the bestseller lists. With her creative and accessible recipes – some of which she’s created or adapted for Easter especially for OFM”

Read more here

I know this should not work, but it really truly does. Pure, total and utter indulgence of a very large kind. I made the pancakes with a mixture of sour cream and milk to make the batter extra light and crikey they taste good.

I love the plain and simply British pancake, fried, flipped, sugared and brought alive with a squeeze of lemon, but sometimes on pancake day morning, it’s all or nothing. I sincerely hope you enjoy wolfing down these bad boys as much as I did. Read more…

I have received so many emails from people about wheat allergies and gluten allergies that I felt I just had to do something special for them.

The Oero brownies went down such a storm that I adapted the recipe for something a little bit different. These naughty little things are quite delectable, especially served with a nice hot cup of tea. Do use chunky peanut butter to get that extra crunch. Read more…

This week the last episode of ‘Baking Made Easy’ was aired. You can catch up with it on the BBC iPlayer in order to check out how to make lots of delicious food.

For this week’s episode ‘Time To Bake’ I decided to make Prosciutto, Mozzarella and Fig Pizza. I also baked Pumpkin and Rosemary Muffins, Macaroons and Mini Tiramisu Cakes. Click the links to get the detailed recipes and enjoy baking. Please upload any photos of these yummy recipes to the ‘Your Photos’ page!

I hope you all enjoyed the penultimate episode of my first season of Baking Made Easy. As per usual you can catch up with the episode on the BBC iPlayer in order to check out how to make lots of fantastic recipes really easily. This week I made a Tomato and Basil Tarte Tatin, Puff Pastry, Chorizo and Thyme Fougasse, Honeycomb and Three-tier Red Velvet Cake. Read more…

I hope you’re all enjoying the series so far, this week you can catch up with episode 4 on the BBC iPlayer here. Thank you for the photos many of you have sent in, keep them coming on the ‘Your Photos‘ page – the best ones we’re popping up on the site.

To catch up with this week’s recipe’s, browse below:

Mascarpone and ginger crème brûlée
Big, fat salt and pepper breadsticks
Dreamlike shortbread
Sticky glazed Asian ham
Whisky and chilli tiger prawns

Baking is all very well, but some days there just is no time. On these days (which seem to be far to often to be honest) the pizza man or the local Thai come up trumps on the door step every time, delivering a highly satisfactory meal in about 40 minutes. The other days, it is just a quick, one pan pasta, which I whip up in the time it takes to cook the pasta. Read more…