This is my favourite jam. I have never seen it in the shops, and I don’t know why because it is a gorgeous combination! It is lovely on toast, especially with peanut butter, and it’s also great in an old-school jam pudding with custard. I usually make double or treble this recipe, but I only…
I love salmon. Unbelievably it is currently half the price of chicken at my local supermarket, and since it is also quicker to cook we have been eating a lot more fish recently! Here’s a dish I do fairly often as it is quick and pretty healthy too (if you miss out the butter)… Recipe (serves…
Confession time: this recipe is not actually mine! I tweaked the original (from Green and Blacks Chocolate Recipes) by using regular dark chocolate, rather than Maya Gold (orange and spices flavoured) simply because I also had strawberries to serve on the side, and I thought plain would work better. It turned out amazing and so…
I’m excited to be working on my first crochet sweater pattern. However, it is taking a little longer than I thought, having unexpectedly been away last week, but I am determined that it will be ready to blog by next week! If you are wondering what I have been up to, check out my guest…
I love having friends round for dinner. Last weekend I rustled up one of my favourite Gino D’Acampo recipes; Lemon and Sage Chicken. I don’t know why supermarkets only sell unwaxed lemons in batches; I suppose it is because they know you will buy more if you need one. I briefly entertained the thought of…
My husband and I are both involved in helping out at our local foodbank. It’s a great way to help people who are in crisis for whatever reason – job losses, family deaths, delays to benefits, etc. This week my husband went to help move our food store to a new warehouse. I wanted to…
Yes, I’ve been baking again. I couldn’t help myself! Chocolate cake is too easy and tasty to resist. I have made this loaf cake before and it went down very well with some friends, but unfortunately I didn’t write down what I did. So this time I kept track of how much of everything I…
My husband and I have a list of 30 things to do before we are 30. One of them is to cook the entirety of a cookbook. This sounded like one of the easier ideas at the time but it is actually quite a challenge! We spent a while looking for a book which had…
We went away for the weekend with a whole group of students and 20’s, which was great fun. At the end there was left over food and after the students had pinched all the tea, cereal, and chocolate spread I was left with a near bushel of apples. I also came home to a bag…
Well, who would have thought sitting around eating too much turkey would be so tiring? Fortunately I have a back log of Christmas gift items to blog about so no need to worry about starting any new projects for a few days (assuming I can resist of course)! I think homemade chutney makes a lovely…
We had some friends visiting last weekend and I wanted to bake something in advance for us to have as dessert so I wouldn’t spend the whole time in the kitchen. I was pretty busy finishing off the advent calendar I was making so I turned to this old favourite recipe of mine which I…
It is really starting to feel like winter to me, which means soup is back on the menu. I was planning on making a pumpkin soup but my local shop was all out, so I came up with this combination instead. It does a great job of both warming and filling you up! I am…
Baking is currently being made difficult by my lack of a functioning oven. So here’s a recipe I can cook just on the hob; I make this recipe (and variations on it) fairly frequently. We aren’t vegetarians but we try to keep meat consumption down, partly because it is cheaper and partly because veggie food…
It seems I have been slipping a bit when it comes to getting round to writing blog posts. The good news is that I have been busy making quite a few different things, so the reason I haven’t posted in a while is that the making has taken priority over blogging about it for a…
I mentioned it was my husband’s birthday last week; well I think it’s a tradition in most offices to take in cakes on your birthday. He asked if I would mind baking him some to take in and of course I said I would! There were about 30 to feed so I made a batch…
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