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…
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…
Lammas Day, Yorkshire Day and my Grandma’s Yorkshire Season Pudding with Herbs
Lammas Day, Yorkshire Day and my Grandma’s Yorkshire Season Pudding with Herbs Today is Lammas Day and Yorkshire Day………but let’s talk about Lammas Day first; the traditional beginning of harvest falls on the first of August and is called Lammas day. (This is believed to be a corruption of “loaf-mass”, due to the loaves of bread…
A Provence Summer Preserve ~ French Set Apricot and Lavender Jam (Confiture)
~ A Provence Summer Preserve ~ French Set Apricot and Lavender Jam (Confiture) Heady perfumed lavender fields, rolling hills of thyme and oregano, hot sun, dusty paths, aching backs and grape stained fingers, hawks sitting on hay bales, the distant throb of a tractor, diesel, warm hands and faces, rich pate, crusty bread, herb scented rillettes, metallic…
Sun Dappled Summer Days and Lavender Honey Roast Stone Fruits with Vanilla
Sun Dappled Summer Days Lavender Honey Roast Stone Fruits with Vanilla I have been cautious, I have NOT waxed lyrical about sun dappled summer days in the garden, with a hammock slung between two trees for swinging and reading…….no poems about larks or harvest fields have passed my lips or indeed my fingers as they type……I…
