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Easter Gourmet 5:2 Diet Recipe: Scallop and Prawn Platter with Chilli Herb Vinaigrette

The Secret Recipe Club: Banana Bread Scones with Brown Sugar Glaze

Colombard Wine, French Bread and Mussel, Onion and Parsley Chowder Recipe

Quick and Simple Pasta Pronto! Swiss Chard and Walnut Pesto Recipe

An Old Vintage Hovis Bread Tin and Nigel Slater’s Black Banana Cake Recipe

Weekly Meal Plan, 5:2 Diet Recipes and Curried Carrot Soup (85 calories)

Galaxy Chocolate, World Baking Day and The Famous Drinking Chocolate Cake Recipe

Seductive Salmon! Salmon, Sorrel & Cream Cheese Parcels (Recipe)

My Mum’s “Teacup Apricot and Honey Porridge” Recipe for a Cold March Morning

Healthy Happy Hearts: Low-Calorie Spicy Mexican Fish Wraps Recipe

Say Cheese! Cheese, Onion and Potato Pie Recipe for British Pie Week

#FishFight Haddock: Easy Cheesy Family Fish Pie Recipe for the 5:2 Diet (300 calories)

5:2 Diet 215 Calorie Kebabs! Cajun Chicken Kebab and Spiced Yoghurt Dip Recipe

Red Nose Day: Do Something Funny for Money! Red Nose Bunnies (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe

The Weekend Pudding Club: Chocolate Paradise Bread and Butter Pudding 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…