Paul Hollywood's Sicilian enriched bread

I have been trying my hand at enriched breads since Christmas with varying success. They usually taste delicious but are a little stodgy. This time I followed Paul Hollywood's recipe for Sicilian...

Chicken, tomato pasta delight: Making a large dinner with only a little leftover chicken.

This isn't really a recipe and might seem entirely obvious but sometimes it's the simple blog posts that I like to read, the ones that make me think, 'oh yeah, why don't I do that more'. At the...

May's No Waste Food Challenge: Spirits and Cordials

Elderflower champagne The sun is shining and my thoughts have turned to Pimms. Looking at my shelves I have lots of different spirits brought back from holidays and homemade cordials and drinks. I...

Time for a spring clean and sort out! Review of the Morphy Richards Never Loses Suction Lift Away Bagless Vacuum Cleaner

I am only just getting round to this year's spring clean. To be honest it just didn't feel right until the days were lighter and the rain and sleety snow had finally given up. I don't know what it...

Grapefruit recipes for Spring

Hello all. I seem to have had a mini blog hiatus over the last few weeks. Hope you haven't minded! My lovely fruit and veg box has been providing me with a new predicament - grapefruit! I'm not a...

First picnic of the year!

Last weekend it was sunny enough to have a quick picnic. We had egg sandwiches homemade bread, apples, tomatoes, strawberries together with some orange drizzle buns and freshly squeezed orange and...

Quesadilla quick dinner

This is the dinner I make when the fridge is looking bare or I can't be bothered to think of anything else to make for tea. It can be adapted to use up whatever you have in the fridge and if you...

Lemon Easter 'gingerbread' house

This is my finished Easter Lemon house, instead of using ginger in the recipe I used the zest of one of my home grown lemons to add a lighter, fresher taste to the house for spring. I found the...

Hotel Chocolat Salted Caramel Egg Sandwich Review

Hotel Chocolat very kindly sent me this Salted Caramel Egg Sandwich to review. It comes in a package that is about 16cm x 10cm and inside are two egg halves with an extra border of splodged...

Pretty homemade chocolate lollipops

These look so effective but are relatively easy to make. I thought they would make a different and colourful addition as Easter gifts. The key here is to make sure you have all the supplies. You...

Deviled egg salad

Before I start blogging about chocolate Easter eggs I thought I would blog about normal eggs first. This salad came about as I had some eggs which needed using up. I had also recently been sent an...

Nigel Slater's hot chocolate puddings

I made these gorgeous chocolate puddings as a treat for my boyfriend and sister last weekend. They are warm, gooey and have the added addition of Nutella which is always a winner! Following the...

Simple sausage, bean and lentil casserole

This is a meal I have been making a lot over the last few weeks and in various guises. I am trying to buy better quality meat and pad out my meals with pulses and vegetable. Sausage, bean and...

February: No waste food challenge preserves round up

In February I challenged you all to post recipes that used up leftover preserves. I had a nice collection of entries, so sit back, have a read, and then get baking with all your leftover little...

Jammy biscuits for No Waste Food Challenge

This month I set everyone the challenge of using up leftover preserves. I have a whole selection of jams that I made last year and need to finish ready for a new year of jam making. Here is my...

Celeriac and brie bread

When a celeriac arrived in my veg box I was stumped to begin with. Then with a bit more rooting around in my box I found a leaflet with lots of handy tips on how to use my celeriac. I was...

Blood orange drizzle cake

To be honest this cake was a slight mistake, but a happy one at that! I had decided to make an orange drizzle cake and was just about to squeeze my oranges when I realised they were blood oranges!...

Valentine's biscuits

I made these cookies for Greg and my sister for Valentine's day with the leftover gingerbread from my Valentine's Gingerbread house. The original recipe is here but make sure you downsize the...

My little Valentine's gingerbread cottage

I just managed to finish this in the nick of time! Here is my Valentine's Gingerbread House. I made it using the same recipe as my Christmas house but used pink strawberry flavoured icing and...

Cheat's croissants with creative fillings

After the success of my Orange Pain au Chocolat using Jus Roll I thought I would try their croissants and play with some fillings at the same time. Again these croissants are denser and less flaky...

Leftover coconut milk rice pudding, with honey, clementine and cloves

I have been making lots of dhal and curry recently and have up with half a can of leftover coconut milk. I also had some extra clementines and so decided to make this rice pudding. Feel free to or...

February's No waste food challenge: Preserves

First up a big thank you to Elizabeth from Elizabeth's Kitchen for hosting January for me. You can find here round up of using up leftover mashed potato here. This month's theme is preserves. As...

Fig cake, Greek yogurt and a healthy cake club

This month's cake club was Healthy Cakes. We had been very forward thinking and decided we would all have had too much to eat over Christmas. We had such an array of wonderful cakes. Banango cake -...

Bacon breakfast baskets

This week is Farmhouse Breakfast Week which is an annual campaign to encourage us all to eat our breakfast, 47% of people regularly skip breakfast and I am definitely one of those people. I hate...

Wholemeal Spelt Bread

Last year I gingerly started baking my own bread thinking that there must be a type of magic and good luck to getting the right rise and bake. I tried sourdough and a simple crock pot recipe and...

Having a snow day!

Random recipes: Coconut and butternut squash dhal

Ever since I have started blogging I have been planning to do Dom from Bealleau Kitchen's Random recipe blog challenge. Every month I fail. Sometimes I even get as far finding the random recipe but...

Sponsored video: Tropical Sun's Free Vending Machine

Whilst much of the UK is tipped to experience snow in the next few days I bring to you an offer of Tropical Sun to make the dark January days seem more bearable! Tropical Sun Foods range from...

Cheat's orange pain au chocolat

I bought some of these Jus-Roll pain au chocolat at Christmas but didn't get round to cooking them as planned. Being the weekend, I thought it would be really nice to have some freshly baked...

Fresh from the oven: Fennel seed, cardamon and star anise flatbreads

I have been watching the Fresh from the Oven Challenge for a little while now and played with bread a little last year. This year I am hoping to participate in the challenge and hope to push my...