Month: November 2017

Now, those who know me on twitter know I had some issues when making these and I apologise if my language went colourful at any point….. Cooked, mashed sweet potato…

Growing up we were spoiled by my lovely, and sorely missed Nanny J’s home made jams and marmalade’s. In fact three years ago today the angels took her under their…

Whilst I do at heart believe a sharp knife is the foundation of a smooth running kitchen, its also quite nice to play with new tools now and again as…

This September marks the 20th Anniversary of Freedom Food, the RSPCA’s food accreditation scheme and in conjunction with Sainsbury’s, who sell over 60% of the UK’s Freedom Food certified products,…

Its amazing how a bit of random internet browsing, whilst making something else has led to me making repeatedly the Soured Cream Bundt cake that I blogged back in July…

Firstly – apologies for my complete internet silence – as posted last week we have no working internet at home, thanks to a naughty fallen tree and CableCom seem in…

One of my favourite meals to serve is a series of smaller dishes – I so much prefer sharing my foods and really enjoy the whole social side to it…

It seems that winter is starting to claim autumn from us, littering the ground with autumn leaves and whispering a chill to the morning air, thoughts of gloves on some…

Okay lets dive in here, offal is a dirty word. Most people’s reaction to that I was cooking heart for our consumption that evening, looked at me like I was…

Now its starting to get a bit chillier and the nights are drawing in pudding starts becoming a warm or hot pudding and in typical style all the fruit in…

The previous day to making this rather delightful salad, whilst out shopping in Oxford, I had eaten a less than delightful salad in a cafe, described simply as ‘Chicken and…

My dad turned up the other week with a silicon cake pan, my heart sunk a little admittedly as I already have way too many pans vs available space, plus…

Every week despite our small household of two we go through a lot of eggs – from simple omelettes for supper to baking all sorts of lovely cakes or just…

Now calling these ‘sausage’ is a bit misleading as there’s no Pork in them and the term parcels implies something much larger and I can’t think of anything smaller than…

Whilst I can make a perfectly decent barbecue sauce, I was trying to have a raid on the numerous jars collecting in the fridge (there is one full shelf and…

Sometimes, when deciding what to make as a side dish that doesn’t involve either pasta, rice or potatoes it can get a little overwhelming or puzzling. Afterall I also have…

Trying to come up with this dishes name was initially easy in my planning process but after actually making it did Strudel still fit the bill I wondered? Strudels tend…

With the nights drawing in and not only chilly starts but chilly nights too I do declare soup season officially open! I always enjoy making soup, there is something so…

My boyfriend was away on holiday recently visiting his family in South Africa and I found myself alone with a packet of shortcrust pastry on its use by date… Obviously…

So I have relented on the word ‘Puff’ following my recent strudel post. I’ve decided it doesn’t have to mean that I have indeed baked dragons (or worse!) and as…