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…
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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…
5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Weekly Meal Plan and a LOW CALORIE Breakfast Omelette Recipe
5:2 Diet – Fast Days & Feast Days, Weekly Meal Plan and a LOW CALORIE Breakfast Omelette Recipe My Monday Meal Plan this week has slid to a Tuesday – as you know if you have been reading and following my blog over the last few days, I have been SO busy with a houseful…
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…
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…
Summertime and the Living is Easy……..Peperonata ~ Rustic Italian Pepper Stew Recipe
Summertime and the Living is Easy…….. ~ Peperonata ~ Rustic Italian Pepper Stew Recipe Summertime and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush, little baby; don’t you cry One of these mornings you’re gonna rise up singing And…
Courvoisier Cognac Comes Home! A Team GB Golden Celebration Party with Courvoisier Punch
Courvoisier Cognac Comes Home! A Team GB Golden Celebration Party with Courvoisier Punch When I was asked recently if I would like to host a party and that I would be sent some complimentary Courvoisier cognac with all the ingredients to make a Courvoisier Punch for my party, I accepted with alacrity! I mean, I am a…
Be-Ro Australian Crunchies (Traybake) – School Lunch Box Treats!
This recipe is taken from the 35th edition of one of my Be-Ro books, and is under the section of “cooking for children”, it’s Australian Crunchie, an easy tray bake biscuit, and is loved by all who tries one! Cornflakes, coconut and cocoa powder are the main ingredients in this recipe, with a naughty…
A Hot Day,The Lavender Harvest and Barbecued Peaches with Honey and Lavender (5:2 Diet)
A Hot Day,The Lavender Harvest and Barbecued Peaches with Honey and Lavender (5:2 Diet) Today was HOT, very hot, the mercury rose up the dizzy and breath stealing heights of 38C and there wasn’t a breath of air as the sun beat down on my wilting plants and herbs………the chickens were in shock and we…
5:2 Diet, Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe, Meal Plan Ideas and Calorie Counters
5:2 Diet, Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe, Meal Plan Ideas and Calorie Counters I posted my low-calorie soup recipe yesterday, 5:2 Diet, Fast Days & Feast Days and Roast Tomato & Garlic Soup Recipe (70 Calories), which is what I eat on my low-calorie (fast days) and I have done for many years……and is suitable for the…
5:2 Diet, Fast Days & Feast Days and Roast Tomato & Garlic Soup Recipe (70 Calories)
5:2 Diet, Fast Days & Feast Day Roast Tomato & Garlic Soup Recipe (70 Calories) I am not a fan of “faddy diets” and yet I must admit to being fascinated about the latest 5:20 diet that was featured in Eat, Fast and Live Longer, part of the documentary featuring the medical journalist Michael Mosley, where…
Be-Ro Melting Moments (Biscuits/Cookies)
My much-loved and treasured Be-Ro cookbook collection that got me thinking; I use any one of them almost weekly, and even though I suspect I know many of the recipes of by heart, I still take immense pleasure from opening their old, worn covers and choosing what I will bake or cook……the memories flood back…
The Hot & Spicy Breakfast Club! Mexican Breakfast Eggs – Two Ways
The Hot & Spicy Breakfast Club! Mexican Breakfast Eggs – Two Ways I LOVE breakfast and I LOVE Mexican food, so when I saw that Heather from Girlichef was the guest host for Helen’s (Fuss Free Flavours) Monthly Breakfast Club, and that her theme was MEXICAN, I knew in a flash I was IN –…
