I’ve been under the weather recently, we’ve just had one illness after the other in our house! So today I decided I needed to treat my body to something good. It was craving some health! I needed a superfood salad! So whilst out and about I picked up everything I needed and couldn’t wait to … More Easy healthy superfood salad recipe
Today, I made this impromptu crumble for our dinner. We don’t normally have home made puds during the week! But I’m currently off work and feeling particularly domesticated! My hubby came back from the allotment with some home grown rhubarb and we still had some of last years blackberries to use up, so we had … More Blackberry & Rhubarb Crumble with crunchy Muesli topping
I wasn’t sure whether this would work or not, but thankfully it did. I’ve not added honey to a sponge mixture before, so was experimenting a little, but it paid off. For this recipe I used some of last years blackberries from the freezer, to make room for our new pickings soon! I think this … More Blackberry & Honey Loaf Cake
We’ve been baking again! It was an utterly miserable day today, I’ve not seen rain like it for a while. Where’s the summer gone?! Not a great start to the school holidays! But a great excuse to do some more baking. I hardly ever make chocolate cakes as I’ve had some major fails in the … More Chocolate Chip Muffins with Galaxy Frosting
Another pasta dish, from our family favourites! My kids will virtually eat anything with pasta so it’s a great way to get meat/protein in to them! This time we mixed up lovely roast chicken left over from the day before roast dinner. I’m all for using up leftovers in a creative and yummy way! Time … More Leftover Roast Chicken Pasta
This is a really basic pasta recipe with extras added. We tend to change it depending on what we’ve got in the fridge. We make this when we’ve got nothing in, so raid the cupboards and we always have a bag of pasta and a tin of tomatoes at the back of the cupboard! The … More Crispy bacon & sausage pasta
As all my followers will know, we recently took a short trip (very short) to sunny cornwall. I had spent almost two weeks online checking out what hotels, B&B’s, etc. were family friendly enough for my young brood. All I knew was that we wanted to stay in cornwall, preferably St Ives and be really … More Tregenna Castle, St Ives, Cornwall: A Review
Yes you’ve guest it after yesterday’s roast lamb recipe it’s lamb curry today!! This is a super quick recipe taking about 20 minutes to cook. Lamb is so full of flavour I don’t think it needs too much added, so there’s not many ingredients in this. The meat already tender just melts in to this … More Leftover roast lamb curry
As you know we love a roast in our family and today it is whole leg of lamb, slow roasted with rosemary, lemon and garlic. This was made today for my mother in laws birthday meal by me, with a leg of lamb I brought half price from Tescos before Christmas that has been in … More Lamb slow roasted with rosemary, lemon and garlic
Perfect every time and so easy to make. This recipe will make approx 6-8 small ones or one large pud. What he used: 3 oz plain flour 3 oz whole milk 2 oz water 1 x egg Pepper to season A little cooking oil What he did: Mixed all the ingredients together in a bowl … More Hubby’s Yorkshire puds
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