If you’re anything like me you like to have all your soldiers in a row, all your ingredients weighed and measured or your ‘mise en place’.  I recently bought Peggy Porschen’s Boutique Baking: Delectable Cakes, Cupcakes and Teatime Treats and set about baking the Neopolitan Marble Cake…

August is a great month in the food calendar as a whole host of great ingredients come into season.  Not only do beetroot, crab, aubergine, samphire, peaches, tomatoes, lettuce make their debut, the sun usually makes an appearance too.  Towards the end of the month,…