Winter Recipes

Making Marmalade and Marmalade Recipes

Celebrating Old Twelfth Night

Mincemeat Bread and Butter Pudding

Recipes for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day

Quick and Easy Scottish Minestrone Soup

Gingerbread Porridge and Apple Crumble Porridge

Baked Rice Pudding – Dairy Free

Baked “Cake Crumb” Mincemeat Pudding

Norfolk Plough Pudding for Plough Monday

Recipes for The Twelve Days of Christmas

Roast Parsnips with Brown Sugar and Cinnamon

Vegan Christmas Stuffed Roasted Squash with Pesto

Winter Beef Braise and Quick Pickled Vegetables

Mum’s Recipe for Michaelmas Dumplings

Leek & Chicken Casserole with Baked Dumplings

Croeso! 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 North Wales in an old converted Schoolhouse on the edge of Snowdonia National Park. 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…