Brunch

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

Organic September & Seasonal Family Recipes – Chicken Pie, Strawberry French Toast & Soup with Cheese Toasties

Somerset Scramble – Scrambled Eggs with Goat’s Cheese, perfect for Breakfast, Brunch or High Tea

Last Day to Celebrate British Bread Week with my Mum’s Scottish Morning Rolls – Baps

Luxury Scottish Fish on Friday and a Classic Recipe – Omelette Arnold Bennett

Celebrating British Bread Week with Farmhouse Oatmeal Bread for Toast, Soup & Sandwiches

Baps, Bloomers and Barm Cakes – Celebrating British Bread Week with Rustic Flower Pot Bread Loaves

The Secret Recipe Club and Home Made Sausage served Italian Style

Saturday Supper Club – Quick and Easy Mixed Courgette & Cherry Tomato Clafoutis with Cheese

Scones – Wensleydale Cheese, Leek & Walnut Scones for Tea Time Treats

Who ate all the Pies? British Pie Week & my Farmhouse Egg and Bacon Pie

Fresh from the Oven March Challenge – Traditional Buttery French Croissants for Lazy Bistro Breakfasts

Spotty Bananas does Posh Pancakes! Buttermilk Pancakes with Banoffee Bananas & Cream

Fish on Friday: Smoked, Peppered Mackerel Pâté with Rye Bread Toasts

A Surfeit of Lemons and a Traditional Preserve – Home-made Lemon and Ginger Marmalade

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…