Fromage Friday! A Simple French Cheeseboard for Al Fresco and Summer Dining Now, I know regular readers will be expecting a “Fish on Friday” post today, and indeed I will be posting one a little later or tomorrow, but for now I want to share a simple idea for a summer cheeseboard, a bit if…
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The First Sunny Day of Spring! Strawberry Fair Yoghurt Cupcakes Recipe
The First Sunny Day of Spring! Strawberry Fair Yoghurt Cupcakes Recipe Hurrah! The sun has finally come out and spring has most definitely sprung today! The birds are singing, the bees are humming and I even heard a cuckoo earlier, as well as the contented clucking from my sun-worshipping hens. The mercury has risen the dizzy…
Win a Baking Party Pack for World Baking Day 19th May 2013
Win a Baking Party Pack for World Baking Day 19th May 2013 Bake for fun, bake with friends and Bake Brave – that’s the message to everyone for World Baking Day 2013. The global event happens annually on the third Sunday in May – and everyone’s invited to join in the fun, from beginner to…
Vintage Blue and White on Sepia Sunday: Farmhouse “Teacup” Spiced Fruit Loaf Recipe
Vintage Blue and White on Sepia Sunday: Farmhouse “Teacup” Spiced Fruit Loaf Recipe It’s Sunday, a day of baking and relaxing by the fire, well it IS a cold spring day! And, I have been washing some of my “food photography props” that I have arranged on an old dresser, as they get so dusty…
Recipe: Traditional Hot Cross Buns for Easter in the style of Brioche!
Recipe: Traditional Hot Cross Buns for Easter in the style of Brioche! Easter is less than a week away, and my Easter baking has started in earnest with batches of cakes, bread and Hot Cross Buns being made almost daily, some to freeze for next weekend, and the rest to scoff now! Last year, I shared…
TV Pizza Night! Sun-Dried Tomato, Red Onion and Chorizo Pizza Recipe
TV Pizza Night! Sun-Dried Tomato, Red Onion and Chorizo Pizza Recipe With winter returning to the landscape via shed loads of snow and cruel Easterly winds, my evenings have reverted to fireside suppers whilst watching the TV again…….mainly cooking programmes, much to my husband’s disgust! And, with these cosy evenings comes the desire for comfort…
Healthy Happy Hearts: Low-Calorie Spicy Mexican Fish Wraps Recipe
Healthy Happy Hearts: Low-Calorie Spicy Mexican Fish Wraps Recipe I think that one of the reasons I love fish (and seafood) and eat it regularly, is because my mum used to cook it at least twice a week when I was growing up. She used to make fish cakes, fish pie, pan-fried fish fillets, oven…
Mothering Sunday and Blue & White China: Little Victoria Lemon Daisy Cakes Recipe
Mothering Sunday and Blue & White China: Little Victoria Lemon Daisy Cakes Recipe Forgive me, but this is an indulgent post today, a sort of virtual Mothering Sunday card for my mum, with daisies and beautiful china………so, there will be very little chat and lots of photos, as well as the recipe for these pretty…
Posh Jam Biscuits! Jammie Daisy Dodgers (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe
Posh Jam Biscuits! Jammie Daisy Dodgers (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe Jammie Dodgers: Jammie Dodgers are a popular British biscuit, made from shortbread with a raspberry flavoured jam filling. They are currently produced by Burton’s Biscuit Company at its factory in Llantarnam. In 2009 Jammie Dodgers were the most popular children’s sweet biscuit brand in the United Kingdom, with 40% of the years’ sales consumed by adults. A buttery…
Say Cheese! Cheese, Onion and Potato Pie Recipe for British Pie Week
Say Cheese! Cheese, Onion and Potato Pie Recipe British Pie Week Everyone knows the old English rhyme “Simple Simon” and his pies, and I have to confess to being a bit of an extreme pie addict! There are extreme sportsmen (and women) as well as other professions where extreme comes into play, but an extreme…
Red Nose Day: Do Something Funny for Money! Red Nose Bunnies (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe
Red Nose Day: Do Something Funny for Money! Red Nose Bunnies (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe Red Nose Day is nearly upon us – in about two weeks time, we will all be able to wear red noses to work, meet friends for lunch wearing them, as well as sleep in them if that’s what floats your boat! Red…
The Lavender & Lovage Weekend Bakery: Sticky Ginger Marmalade Tea Loaf Recipe
The Lavender & Lovage Weekend Bakery: Sticky Ginger Marmalade Tea Loaf Recipe I love baking, as many of my regular readers will know! I love the weighing and sifting, as well as the perusal of cookbooks and those cracking recipe ideas that come to you in the middle of the night. I also love bakeware, and…
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Honey Roast Chicken, Hand Pies and Bread & Butter Pudding Recipes
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Honey Roast Chicken, Hand Pies and Bread & Butter Pudding Recipes February Core Ingredients: Rhubarb; Carrots; Potatoes; Swede; Chicken and Honey It gives me great pleasure to announce to all of my readers that I will be working in partnership with Organic UK for the next eight months. I will be creating thrifty…
Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipe
Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipe Do you remember those old-fashioned bakers, those ones where you could buy a loaf of bread and they used to pop it in a white paper bag and do that magic twisting thing to seal it – like sweet shops used to do as well. They…
Luxury Low-Calorie Recipe for Fish on Friday: Smoked Salmon Pitta Pizza for 5:2 Diet Fast Day
Luxury Low-Calorie Recipe for Fish on Friday: Smoked Salmon Pitta Pizza for 5:2 Diet Fast Day My “Fish on Friday” post today is a luxury one, a special LOW-CALORIE snack, lunch or light supper recipe with more than a hint of gourmet about it, Smoked Salmon Pitta Pizza. This recipe is a remarkable 194 calories and VERY…
