Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Spring has sprung! Time to dust off some salad recipes and replace the comfort foods with more fresh vibrancy.
We move house today; after far too long in a not perfect house we’re at last moving into our new home.
When I first saw this concept of pairing balsamic with chocolate I was totally intrigued.
I had intended to make these truffles to stand in as the little chocolate eggs found on chocolate cornflake nests for the girls to take in for their classes as an Easter treat.
It was one of those busy days – a jam packed morning, followed by a picnic and afternoon out.
Easter is over, so it’s definitely time to move away from the chocolate and towards fresh spring flavours.
You might have noticed a sudden influx of zippy flavours in my recipes – spring is such a transforming time of year, its difficult to not pay homage to it in your cooking – moving to fr…
I’m out of cocoa powder – utter disaster!! I’ve mentioned before the difficulty in finding safe milk-free cocoa and since I only visited Waitrose this week and they don’t se…
This recipe was devised due to spying a little bottle of caramel essence in Waitrose.
Big S has been asking me to make Minteos for ages (my mint version of Oreos) – I’ve kept putting it off as I remembered it was quite a laborious task involving multiple sheets of cookie…
This is just the thing when your tomatoes are not quite ripe, or even a little past their best but you really fancy a delicious tomato salad.
I haven’t made a proper cake for ages – somehow it always seems more convenient to make cupcakes, but every now and then you can’t beat the visual appeal of a stunning centrepiece…
I’m not sure about you, but my children struggle with composed salads – they’re fine with lettuce, cucumber etc.
I think most people have childhood memories of tomato soup – probably Heinz – and its comforting qualities.