JANUARY: THE WEATHER IS HOT, the days long and balmy and, if you’re lucky, you have a little time to slow down and digest the year that was – both metaphorically and literally. Time to puddle about outside, move the sprinkler around the thirsty garden and check on the summer seedlings you keenly planted, then promptly forgot about… or is this just me?
Although the weather can be stifling, the urge to bake never leaves me, but I must concede that the recipes I
