World Baking Day……Cakes Galore and my Vanilla, Strawberry & Rose Victoria Sandwich Cake Are you brave enough to Bake Brave tomorrow, Sunday 19th May 2013? Just ONE more day to go, and you can choose from 100 wonderful cakes to make on the World Baking Day website here: World Baking Day 19th May – The…
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Celebrating Britain’s Most Famous Snack – The Sandwich! Egg and Two Cress Sandwich Recipe
Celebrating Britain’s Most Famous Snack – The Sandwich! Egg and Two Cress Sandwich Recipe It was a moment of pure brilliance the night that the 4th Earl of Sandwich asked for his cold roast beef to be served between two sliced of bread, as not to dirty his playing cards, and so the “sandwich” was…
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Asparagus,Spring Vegetables,Gooseberries & Cape Malay Beef Curry Recipes
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Asparagus, Spring Vegetables, Gooseberries & Cape Malay Beef Curry Recipes Core May Ingredients: Beef, Asparagus, Broad Beans, Peas, Gooseberries and Jersey Royal Potatoes May Menu: Two Cheese Asparagus Tart Broad Bean and Pea Medley with Feta Cheese Jersey Royal Potato Salad with Three Herb Mayonnaise Cape Malay Beef & Fruit…
Cheese and Onion Scone Bread (Loaf)
Cheese and Onion Scone Bread (Loaf) I have been a little lazy on the baking front lately, I have just been so busy and also the diet has been high on the list this week, after an orgy of excessive boozing and scoffing last week. So, when my random generator “widget thingie” landed on the…
Weekly Meal Plan and Two Day Diet Recipes: Salmon Niçoise Salad (5:2 Diet)
Weekly Meal Plan and Two Day Diet Recipes: Salmon Niçoise Salad (5:2 Diet) I was a little naughty last week, the weekly meal plan with my two-day diet went out of the window and I enjoyed much feasting with gusto and without one guilty thought! MY daughter Hannah was visiting and we embraced the warm…
Fromage Friday! A Simple French Cheeseboard for Al Fresco and Summer Dining
Fromage Friday! A Simple French Cheeseboard for Al Fresco and Summer Dining Now, I know regular readers will be expecting a “Fish on Friday” post today, and indeed I will be posting one a little later or tomorrow, but for now I want to share a simple idea for a summer cheeseboard, a bit if…
Picnics, Lunch Box and Barbecue Salad Idea: Layered Picnic Salads in a Jar (Recipe)
Picnics, Lunch Box and Barbecue Salad Idea: Layered Picnic Salads in a Jar (Recipe) You know those plastic containers of soggy salad leaves, limp cucumber slices, watery tomatoes and floppy onions that are often unpacked on a picnic or for a much anticipated lunch at work? Well, worry no more (if you were worrying of course!) and…
“Scandi” Friday with Hot Pickled Herrings and a Dill Pickle Potato Salad Recipe
“Scandi” Friday with Hot Pickled Herrings and a Dill Pickle Potato Salad Recipe It’s a bit of an IKEA post today…..blonde and bleached wood, candles, white plates, sleek cutlery, dill pickles, coriander, lemons, SAAB convertibles, red and white enamel pans, herrings, dill pickles and potato salad, yes, it’s my regular Fish on Friday post but…
Spring Green 5:2 Diet Recipe: Moroccan Roasted Vegetable Salad with Feta Cheese (200 calories)
Spring Green 5:2 Diet Recipe: Moroccan Roasted Vegetable Salad with Feta Cheese (200 calories) I am a salad eater, a sort of veggie lotus eater but with more rustic charm! I like a green leaf or two and never more so than when I am “watching my weight” (such a funny euphemism for I’m too fat and…
Recipe: Low-Calorie Moroccan Cod Parcels for the 5:2 Diet and a Healthy Happy Heart
Recipe: Low-Calorie Moroccan Cod Parcels for the 5:2 Diet and a Healthy Happy Heart As Lavender and Lovage regular readers will know, I love fish! I eat it at least twice a week – it’s easy to cook, tasty and extremely healthy, as well as being low in calories. I have been working with Fish…
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Salmon with Herb Mayonnaise, Spring Greens & Orange Cream Cheese Cake Recipes
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Salmon with Herb Mayonnaise, Spring Greens & Orange Cream Cheese Cake Recipes April Core Ingredients: Oranges, Spring Greens, New Potatoes, Cream Cheese, Herbs and Salmon April Menu: Whole poached salmon with Herb mayonnaise Spring Greens with Citrus butter Minted New Potatoes Salmon & Vegetable Cheesy Bake Potted Salmon & Herb…
Recipe: Traditional Hot Cross Buns for Easter in the style of Brioche!
Recipe: Traditional Hot Cross Buns for Easter in the style of Brioche! Easter is less than a week away, and my Easter baking has started in earnest with batches of cakes, bread and Hot Cross Buns being made almost daily, some to freeze for next weekend, and the rest to scoff now! Last year, I shared…
Quick and Simple Pasta Pronto! Swiss Chard and Walnut Pesto Recipe
Quick and Simple Pasta Pronto! Swiss Chard and Walnut Pesto Recipe Pasta, that easy to prepare mid-week meal, or a weekend indulgence with wine and maybe half an acre of garlic bread – it comes in many guises and it’s astonishing to think that we only really embraced this “foreign” ingredient about forty to forty-five years ago. Many an…
TV Pizza Night! Sun-Dried Tomato, Red Onion and Chorizo Pizza Recipe
TV Pizza Night! Sun-Dried Tomato, Red Onion and Chorizo Pizza Recipe With winter returning to the landscape via shed loads of snow and cruel Easterly winds, my evenings have reverted to fireside suppers whilst watching the TV again…….mainly cooking programmes, much to my husband’s disgust! And, with these cosy evenings comes the desire for comfort…
Recipe: Pink Grapefruit Marmalade and The Lavender & Lovage Marmalade Awards Results!
Recipe: Pink Grapefruit Marmalade and The Lavender & Lovage Marmalade Awards Results! National Marmalade week is over, as is the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, and I am left with dozens of jars of assorted marmalade, as well as a big surprise – THREE certificates from my three entries into the Marmalade Awards! Along with Sue and…
