The Big Fair Bake and Tropical Wholefoods: Tropical Fruit Flapjack Slices for a Tea Time Treat! It’s been a busy month for me and I am way behind with my Sepia Saturday posts; for those of you who don’t know what they are, it’s my weekly attempt to bake my way through seventy to eighty…
Side Dish
Autumn Figs and Seasonal Salads: Fresh Fig and Goat’s Cheese Salad with Walnuts
Autumn Figs and Seasonal Salads: Fresh Fig and Goat’s Cheese Salad with Walnuts It’s fig time in SW France, and I managed to pick several kilos of figs before I travelled back to the UK, and, I have been busy thinking up new fig recipes, as well as making jams, pickles, alcohol steeped figs and chutney with the…
Fish on Friday, Fresh Figs and a Recipe for Potted Crab – Crab Rillettes
Fish on Friday, Fresh Figs and a Recipe for Potted Crab – Crab Rillettes It’s been an exciting day, we have guests, three lovely girls arrived yesterday for a week’s holiday and they have settled in already, and even laid three eggs today……….yes, it’s not my daughter and her two friends (although they are lovely…
Weekly Meal Plan and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days – Creamy Garlic Mushrooms on Toast (190 Calories)
Weekly Meal Plan and a New 5:2 Diet Recipe for Fast Days – Creamy Garlic Mushrooms on Toast – (190 Calories) One of the things I miss when I am on one of my low-calorie days (Fast Day) on the 5:2 diet is something “on toast”…….I am terribly British in my love of anything on…
Damson Day with Vivien Lloyd: Autumn Preserves Workshop in an Old Somerset Farmhouse
Damson Day with Vivien Lloyd: Autumn Preserves Workshop in an Old Somerset Farmhouse For those of you in the preserving world, there will be no need to introduce Vivien Lloyd, as she is a well-known and much respected WI judge, as well as being the author of First Preserves (Marmalades, Jams, Chutneys), a best-selling and…
Vintage Plates, Organic September ~ My Family Recipe for Rustic Style Potato Salad
Vintage Plates ~ Organic September ~ My Family Recipe for Rustic Style Potato Salad I am home after a long day but enjoyable day; I have been to Blog Camp in London, and it was just brilliant to meet all my food blogger friends, as well as learn new blogging tips and helpful information about…
A Weekly Meal Plan, A Taste of Autumn and Allotment Soup (100 calories) for the 5:2 Diet
A Weekly Meal Plan, A Taste of Autumn and Allotment Soup (100 calories) for the 5:2 Diet It’s that time of year again, with apologies to my Southern Hemisphere followers, but Autumn is JUST a whiff away……just a wood smoke aroma away and maybe even just a crackling fire away………as I definitely noticed an autumnal…
Sepia Saturday, Happy Baking Days with Tala and Be-Ro: Strawberry Iced Butterfly Fairy Cakes
Sepia Saturday, Happy Baking Days with Tala and Be-Ro: Strawberry Iced Butterfly Fairy Cakes When Tala approached me recently and asked if I would like to “test drive” some of their bakeware and baking accessories, I was thrilled; the reason is this, I was brought up on Tala bakeware, both my grandmother and mother used…
Scandinavian Smoked Salmon & Scrambled Egg Breakfast Wraps
It’s Friday and that means Fish on Friday, and today my post is an easy, in fact just made and devoured, breakfast wrap; made with some “Square” wraps that were sent to me as part of a small selection of Warburtons product samples. I was sent a selection of bread samples from the famous British bakery a…
A New 5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe – Greek Lunch Box Salad with Feta Cheese and Mint Dressing
A New 5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipe – Greek Lunch Box Salad with Feta Cheese and Mint Dressing – Whereas I would LOVE a cat in my lunch box, well an edible cat that is, like the one above that I discovered on an Israeli website, it might raise a few eyebrows! I do remember making funny…
Organic September & Seasonal Family Recipes – Chicken Pie, Strawberry French Toast & Soup with Cheese Toasties
Organic September & Seasonal Family Recipes – Chicken Pie, Strawberry French Toast & Soup with Cheese Toasties – When I was approached by Sainsbury’s recently and asked if I would like to participate in the Organic September event, which is being run by the Soil Association, I was delighted to accept the challenge. Organic is always the way to…
Sepia Saturday – Seventy Years of Baking with Be-Ro: Raspberry Cheesecake Muffins
Sepia Saturday – Seventy Years of Baking with Be-Ro: Raspberry Cheesecake Muffins It’s Saturday and that can only mean one thing, it’s my weekly Sepia Saturday post, where I attempt to bake my way through seventy years of Be-Ro cookbooks! For those of you who don’t know what Be-Ro is, or what I am talking about when I mention Be-Ro cookbooks, below…
5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Monday Meal Plan and a LOW CALORIE Salad Niçoise Recipe
5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Monday Meal Plan LOW CALORIE Salad Niçoise Recipe Welcome to another Monday Meal Plan and a new week…..and, a Bank Holiday for those of you in the UK, late August Bank holiday, the last one before schools start back at the beginning of September, and where has the summer…
Be-ro London “Bath” Buns
This Be-Ro bake is a NEW recipe for me, London Buns, or London “Bath” Buns, and I can honestly say that I had NEVER made these before, and I am not sure if my mum or grandmother have made them either; but, I DO remember trying something similar in a café before, as well as a church…
5:2 Diet – A Fabulous Vegetarian Red Pepper, Lentil and Cheese Pâté (Spread) Recipe
– 5:2 Diet – A Fabulous Vegetarian Red Pepper, Lentil and Cheese Pâté (Spread) Recipe Some tasty crispbreads arrived just in time for me recently (as I am on a diet) and a VERY big thanks to Ryvita UK for sending me a packet of their new flavour HINT OF CHILLI CRISPBREAD as well as a very…
