If you’re craving something gluten free and refined sugar free then look no further. Once again, as I sit here with my jeans feeling really rather snug, I search for what I should be eating over the coming week. I have an awful penchant for sweet things at the moment having not denied myself a…
It’s a new year so time for a new chicken recipe. It’s a new year and my quest for interesting things to do with a chicken continue. I love a chicken based Sunday roast but it happens to be my family’s least favourite choice. It’s cheap, delicious and rustic, but never raises a smile from…
The Christmas countdown has started, and these sausage based nibbles are a great place to begin.i Time is now of the essence and this time next week your Christmas preparations will have reached a new and frenzied level. I have all but finished my shopping, Clyde is on wrapping duty as we speak and I…
Not everyone loves the traditional Christmas pudding, I can assure you they will love this. We are fully immersed in the Christmas thing now, so let’s just go with it. I have lists of lists and online shopping deliveries are arriving on a daily basis. My sister, Mother and I are menu planning for the…
This week it’s time to start some Christmas menu planning. Ok so now it’s December, I feel we can fully embrace the Christmas business and start getting some decent festive recipes under our belt. George’s birthday is at the end of November so I feel it’s wrong to focus on anything Yule related until after…
These all American classics are so good with a glass of cold milk. If you put oats in something it makes it healthy. That’s not a question, it’s a statement. It’s not necessarily true but I would like it to be. Let’s face it, these soft, maple flavoured cookies are effectively porridge in handheld form….
Sometimes only a large bowl of pasta and meatballs will do. As a family, we love a meatball supper. Meatballs feature at least once a week for us, so finding a new and exciting recipe for the aforementioned balls, is cooking gold. I will be honest with you, I didn’t really feel like cooking today…
November calls for comfort food, and lots of it. Now winter’s here I spend a lot of time thinking about what I would like to eat. And it’s mostly stodge. I have a standard list of staple family supper dishes and this Toad in the Hole appears regularly between November and April *or June if…
It’s Hallowe’en next, so plan ahead with something other than sweets and chocolate to eat. It’s nearly Hallowe’en, well a week or so away, so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and post this brilliant Corndog Muffins recipe.Hallowe’en is such an American phenomenon, so what better food to enjoy than these quintessentially US…
This week, I have been reviewing some coffee pods. So I decided to cook with them, as well as drinking them. When I was offered some wonderful coffee pods to review from Real Coffee I leapt at the chance. Coffee is one of my passions, along with 80s films, pink roses and Salad Cream, so having…
