Mothering Sunday and Blue & White China: Little Victoria Lemon Daisy Cakes Recipe Forgive me, but this is an indulgent post today, a sort of virtual Mothering Sunday card for my mum, with daisies and beautiful china………so, there will be very little chat and lots of photos, as well as the recipe for these pretty…
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Posh Jam Biscuits! Jammie Daisy Dodgers (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe
Posh Jam Biscuits! Jammie Daisy Dodgers (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe Jammie Dodgers: Jammie Dodgers are a popular British biscuit, made from shortbread with a raspberry flavoured jam filling. They are currently produced by Burton’s Biscuit Company at its factory in Llantarnam. In 2009 Jammie Dodgers were the most popular children’s sweet biscuit brand in the United Kingdom, with 40% of the years’ sales consumed by adults. A buttery…
Say Cheese! Cheese, Onion and Potato Pie Recipe for British Pie Week
Say Cheese! Cheese, Onion and Potato Pie Recipe British Pie Week Everyone knows the old English rhyme “Simple Simon” and his pies, and I have to confess to being a bit of an extreme pie addict! There are extreme sportsmen (and women) as well as other professions where extreme comes into play, but an extreme…
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Persian Lamb, Aromatic Cauliflower & Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipes
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Persian Lamb, Aromatic Cauliflower & Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipes March Core Ingredients: Lemons; Cauliflower; Leeks; Eggs; Chocolate and Lamb MARCH MENU: Persian Roast Lamb with Aromatic Rice Spiced Cauliflower Spicy Shepherd’s Pie with Cheesy Leek Topping Chocolate Truffle Cake with Crystallised Violets Welcome to my second Thrifty and Organic Meal Planner post!…
Red Nose Day: Do Something Funny for Money! Red Nose Bunnies (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe
Red Nose Day: Do Something Funny for Money! Red Nose Bunnies (Biscuits/Cookies) Recipe Red Nose Day is nearly upon us – in about two weeks time, we will all be able to wear red noses to work, meet friends for lunch wearing them, as well as sleep in them if that’s what floats your boat! Red…
The Weekend Pudding Club: Chocolate Paradise Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe
The Weekend Pudding Club: Chocolate Paradise Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe It’s Pudding time! February continues to be cold, snowy and almost Baltic, the sun shines bright and the days are crisp and clear, but by the late afternoon the temperature has plummeted to below zero and I can be found sitting in front of the fire contemplating bowls of soup. I have sensed…
A Vegetable Jewel in the Crown: Fenland Celery and Fenland Celery Soup Recipe
A Vegetable Jewel in the Crown: Fenland Celery and Fenland Celery Soup Recipe Celery, a simple vegetable, but with the unfortunate reputation of being served (stuck in a water-glass) as an accompaniment to those 70’s cheese board protagonists, Edam and Danish Blue, with cream crackers and a glass if Mateus Rose. But, celery can be…
A Spring Fling Recipe for the 5:2 Diet! Low-Calorie Minted Pea & Vegetable Frittata – 200 calories
A Spring Fling Recipe for the 5:2 Diet! Low-Calorie Minted Pea & Vegetable Frittata – 200 calories I really feel as if spring is just around the corner – yes, we have been warned of more cold weather to come, but, the sun has been shining lately even if mornings and evenings have been frosty…
Smoked Cheese and Cherry Tomato Rarebit: On Toast Snack or Light Supper Recipe
Smoked Cheese and Cherry Tomato Rarebit: On Toast Snack or Light Supper Recipe Sometimes all that is needed is something on toast; beans, tomatoes, cheese and egg are always perfect partners for an “on toast” snack or light supper dish, but it’s nice to push the taste boundaries when serving something on toast now and then. And…
The Lavender & Lovage Weekend Bakery: Sticky Ginger Marmalade Tea Loaf Recipe
The Lavender & Lovage Weekend Bakery: Sticky Ginger Marmalade Tea Loaf Recipe I love baking, as many of my regular readers will know! I love the weighing and sifting, as well as the perusal of cookbooks and those cracking recipe ideas that come to you in the middle of the night. I also love bakeware, and…
Recipe: Make Award Winning Marmalade – Marmalade Workshop with Vivien Lloyd
Recipe: Make Award Winning Marmalade Marmalade Workshop with Vivien Lloyd Just over a week ago I was invited to attend a seasonal preserves workshop with two other food writers and bloggers, Sue and Charlotte; it was an exciting opportunity to make award-winning marmalade with Vivien Lloyd, in her lovely country farmhouse just outside Bath. I have attended one…
Recipe: Pancakes for Everyday! My Marmalade Pancakes for Pancake Day +1
Recipe: Pancakes for Everyday! My Marmalade Pancakes for Pancake Day +1 I know, I am a day late, but I was travelling all day yesterday and did not have time to rustle up a batch of pancakes whilst sitting on the train! However, if you still have some eggs and milk in your pantry that…
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Honey Roast Chicken, Hand Pies and Bread & Butter Pudding Recipes
Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Honey Roast Chicken, Hand Pies and Bread & Butter Pudding Recipes February Core Ingredients: Rhubarb; Carrots; Potatoes; Swede; Chicken and Honey It gives me great pleasure to announce to all of my readers that I will be working in partnership with Organic UK for the next eight months. I will be creating thrifty…
Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipe
Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipe Do you remember those old-fashioned bakers, those ones where you could buy a loaf of bread and they used to pop it in a white paper bag and do that magic twisting thing to seal it – like sweet shops used to do as well. They…
Three Fruit Marmalade Recipe
In 2013 I decided that I was going to take the orange by the rind, (as opposed to the bull by the horns) and enter my marmalade into that year’s Marmalade Awards, or to give it the correct title, The World’s Original Marmalade Awards. I was bold and brave, not worrying about the awards I…
