-The KitchenMaid-

Cupcakes - so 2007, right? Depends who you ask. Personally, I've made about 50 in the last month, so I think they're quite 2015 too...

You know what gets me about fancy houses in interiors magazines? They never, ever, have anything stuck to their fridges. Oh, sure, there mig...

It's about this time of year that I start to feel slightly panicked and wish I could run away to some kind of closed community where th...

It takes a special sort of person to make chocolate and chickpeas sound like natural partners. Nicola Galloway - chef, author, gardener, mot...

Yesterday, someone asked me 'how do you fit everything in and still maintain your blog?' I realised, with a sinking feeling, that sh...

If you grew up in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s, there's a good chance this pudding will be instantly recognisable. If not, it'...

I stumbled upon JJ of 84th and 3rd just under a year ago. I was in Berlin, awake in the early hours of the morning, scrolling through Insta...

Less than two weeks in and I think I've cracked why parents get weepy about their child going to school. It's not the thought of the...

One of the most serendipitous things that happened to us on our great European adventures last year was meeting up with Karen Burns Booth ...

I'm not sure how it happened, but someone has stolen my January. I can't believe the first month of 2014 has disappeared so fast. Th...

Scratch a blogger, any blogger, and most of them will admit a yearning to write a book. I'm not sure why the thought of writing capture...

It's not exactly on the scale of Grand Designs, but we're currently planning a few changes here at chez Kitchenmaid and as a result,...

I wasn't exactly an early adopter when it came to Instagram, but now I'm completely hooked. While we were on holiday - and therefore...

In Lois Daish's 1993 book, Dinner At Home , one of the chapters is called 'I Wish There Was Another Name For Mince'. I know just...

Last week, when I issued a desperate call out for birthday party food ideas, I was inspired by many of the responses. But my favourite by fa...

OK, everyone, it's time to pull on your legwarmers, leotards and headbands: it's the We Should Cocoa Fame round-up. Since I'm wr...