Menu Planning

Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea

The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe

The Wartime Kitchen and Day Five – Ration Book Fish on Friday: Devilled Fish Recipe

The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe

The Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking – Day Three: Eggs and Egg in a Nest: WW2 Mock Fried Egg Recipe

The Wartime Kitchen: Living off Rations with Ration Book Cooking – Day Two & Lord Woolton Pie

The Wartime Kitchen: Living off Rations with Ration Book Cooking – Day One

Mid-Week Meal Plan, 5:2 Diet and Hungarian Savoury Minced Beef Recipe

5:2 Diet: Comfort Food that’s Low in Calories! Très Rapide French Tarragon Chicken

Mid-Week Meal Plan: Meat-Free Scotch Broth Recipe (5:2 Fast and Feast Diet)

Elderberries, Stormy Days and Meal Planning: Autumn Broth Recipe (5:2 Diet)

Weekly Meal Plan and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days – Creamy Garlic Mushrooms on Toast (190 Calories)

A Weekly Meal Plan, A Taste of Autumn and Allotment Soup (100 calories) for the 5:2 Diet

A New 5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe – Greek Lunch Box Salad with Feta Cheese and Mint Dressing

5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Weekly Meal Plan and a LOW CALORIE Breakfast Omelette Recipe

Welcome! I'm Karen; it’s lovely to see you here. I was born in South Africa, but I've lived all over the world, latterly calling North Yorkshire my home where I lived for many years before moving to SW France, although I'm now living in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty, in an old Victorian cottage. I am a freelance food and travel writer, as well as a food stylist, and recipe developer, with a passion for art, travel, books, photography, seasonal food and especially cheese and wine. Please do get in contact with me if you have any questions about my work or commissioning me. Read More…