Baking

Christmas Eve Fireside Supper Chicken & Ham Pie

Cheese, Sweetcorn and Spring Onion Muffins

Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins

Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy

Beer and Cheese Bread in a Crock

Old-Fashioned Chewy Oatmeal & Raisin Cookies

Guilt-Free Baked Doughnuts (Donuts)Three Ways!

Confetti “Funfetti” Chiffon Cake for Easter Sunday Tea

French Cheese and English Honey…….

A Vintage Recipe: Queen Cakes for Mothering Sunday

Brioches à Tête for a Lazy Weekend Brunch or Breakfast

Toasted Teacakes and a Cuppa! Yorkshire Teacakes Recipe

Bannocks, Fry Bread and Indian Tacos

Three Healthy Breakfast Recipe Ideas

Going Bananas: Banana Bread Cake with Buttercream

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…