Stir Up Sunday, Traditions and my Traditional Victorian Christmas Pudding Recipe Tomorrow is Stir-Up Sunday, as well as St Catherine’s Day, a double celebration; I usually make cattern cakes on St Catherine’s day as is it my Saint’s Day, being a Karen, which is a derivative of Catherine…….however, tomorrow it is all about Christmas puddings, and although…
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Elegant Fish on Friday: Easy Smoked Haddock au Gratin Recipe
Elegant Fish on Friday: Easy Smoked Haddock au Gratin Recipe It’s Friday and that can only mean one thing, my weekly Fish on Friday post, and a NEW and very easy recipe, Easy Smoked Haddock and Salmon au Gratin – an elegant and comforting meal that is made with TOP quality Scottish smoked haddock, with thanks to John…
Lazy Blue and White Lunch: Garlic Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables Recipe
Lazy Blue and White Lunch: Garlic Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables Recipe Who can resist a roast chicken for Sunday lunch – a lovely free-range organic bird slowly roasting, releasing its aromatic fragrance throughout the house, sizzling quietly away in the oven whilst a trip to pub is arranged or maybe a brisk walk with…
Weekly Meal Plan and a Hearty Family Supper Recipe: Sausage and Apple Casserole in Cider
Weekly Meal Plan and a Hearty Family Supper Recipe: Sausage and Apple Casserole in Cider It’s been a funny week, as you all know I was living off WW2 rations last week and I have found it quite hard to get back into the swing of things since then! I enjoyed my week in the Wartime…
Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea
Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea High Flight (John Gillespie Magee, Jr.) Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things You have not dreamed…
The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe It was my intention to cook a meal in a Hay Box at sometime in my wartime kitchen week; a hay box was a simple way to continue cooking a meal whilst you were out, or in order to save energy. The casserole, soup…
The Wartime Kitchen and Day Five – Ration Book Fish on Friday: Devilled Fish Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and Day Five – Ration Book Fish on Friday: Devilled Fish Recipe Today is day five of my wartime ration book cooking challenge, and it’s Friday, which means it has to be fish on Friday. We may not all follow the traditional fish on Friday menu plan nowadays, such a shame I think, but…
The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe – Day four of my living off wartime rations, and I am hankering after a little meat in my diet, curiously enough, as I am not a huge meat-eater normally. I still have my bacon and meat rations left, as well as my cheese…
The Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking – Day Three: Eggs and Egg in a Nest: WW2 Mock Fried Egg Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking – Day Three: Eggs and Egg in a Nest: WW2 Mock Fried Egg Recipe Today is day three of my Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking challenge, and today is all about eggs. Yesterday was a vegetarian day for us, and I made a rather tasty Woolton Pie, you can…
A Bonfire Treat! Sticky Yorkshire Ginger Parkin with Quince and Pomegranate Compote
A Bonfire Treat! Sticky Yorkshire Ginger Parkin with Quince and Pomegranate Compote I LOVE sticky ginger parkin, it’s one of my favourite treats at this time of the year, and is JUST perfect for Bonfire night along with treacle toffee aka Tom Trot toffee, tomato soup in cups, chilli, stews, soups and toffee apples…..my recipe…
A Seasonal Slow Sunday Supper: Aromatic Beef and Quince Tagine with Pomegranate
A Seasonal Slow Sunday Supper: Aromatic Beef and Quince Tagine with Pomegranate The season continues to move on with misty mornings and crisp frosty evenings, stars bright and the sky filled with fireworks, as Bonfire Night approaches on the 5th November. Meals are now taken by roaring fires and casseroles, daubes, stews, soups and…
Milk Fadge: Emergency Bread (No Yeast) Recipe
This Milk Fadge Bread recipe makes a lovely textured bread with no yeast needed. It slices well once it is cold, making it perfect for sandwiches and toast. Milk Fadge – No-Yeast Bread Even with a well stocked store cupboard like mine (keep scrolling for my list), I can be let down. So when I…
Family Fish and Pasta on Friday: Creamy Salmon and Orange Pasta with Mixed Herbs Recipe
Family Fish and Pasta on Friday: Creamy Salmon and Orange Pasta with Mixed Herbs Recipe Christmas arrived early the other day, a fabulous box of fresh fish arrived, as you may remember from last week’s Fish on Friday post – Easy Peasy Fish on Friday Recipe: Family Friendly Fabulous Fish Pie, and along with my fish box…
Sunday Lunch: Roast Pumpkin Salad with Pancetta, Grana Padano and Pumpkin Seeds
Sunday Lunch: Roast Pumpkin Salad with Pancetta, Grana Padano and Pumpkin Seeds I awoke to a heavy white frost today with flocks of iridescent starlings on the lawn…….my trip to the hen-house was accompanied by crunching footsteps as I made my way over sparkling white grass, and I could sense the eyes of hungry blackbirds watching my…
Spooky Family Food and Baking Recipes for Halloween: Spiders, Owls and Mashed Spuds with a Twist!
Spooky Family Food and Baking Recipes for Halloween: Spiders, Owls and Mashed Spuds with a Twist! Today should be Sepia Saturday, where I share a Be-Ro recipe from one of my many old (and new) Be-Ro cookbooks, but, as Halloween is next week, I have decided to share some seasonal recipes with you……and, I am…
