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…
Birthday Party
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…
Fish on Friday with Pink Grapefruit and Prawn Salad suitable for 5:2 Diet and Weight Watchers
Fish on Friday Pink Grapefruit and Prawn Salad (The 5:2 Diet and Weight Watchers) Here I am again with my regular Fish on Friday post, but it’s a day early and is on Thursday! And this week I am featuring one of my favourite salads – a healthy and flavour packed recipe with fruit, seafood, salad…
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…
Search for a Connoisseur & Sharp’s Brewery: Smoked Mackerel with Hot Beetroot and Horseradish Cream
Search for a Connoisseur & Sharp’s Brewery Smoked Mackerel with Hot Beetroot and Horseradish Cream I am always up for a cookery challenge and when I was approached by Sharp’s Brewery recently and asked if I would like to develop a recipe to be matched with a BEER, I was intrigued and very interested! I know that the usual pairing…
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…
Fish on Friday with King Prawns – Chilli Prawn Stir-Fry with Mangoes
Fish on Friday with King Prawns ~ Chilli Prawn Stir-Fry with Mangoes ~ This week’s Fish on Friday post is a little bit special, not that all my previous Fish on Friday posts aren’t special too, but this is an attempt to cheer us all up with an exotic Asian inspired seafood recipe – Chilli Prawn Stir-Fry…
Frolicking Fun and Frivolity with “Whim Wham” ~ A Scottish Regency Trifle
Frolicking Fun and Frivolity with “Whim Wham” ~ A Scottish Regency Trifle ~ Who doesn’t love a bit of frolicking fun and frivolity? Especially when the weather has been dire this summer; so when I received a package of FRESH Scottish raspberries recently, my face LIT up and I immediately started to concoct a divine dessert that had FUN in the title…
French Burgers for Bastille Day! Béarnaise, Blue Cheese and Red Onion Burgers
French Burgers for Bastille Day! Béarnaise, Blue Cheese and Red Onion Burgers Today, the 14th July, is France’s National Day ~ Bastille Day ~ we usually go to watch the fireworks at St Georges de Didonne near Royan; they always have an amazing show right on the beach by the Gironde Estuary, however, I think…
Summer Holiday Baking: Pear,Walnut & Goat’s Cheese Breakfast Buns (Muffins)
Summer Holiday Baking: Pear,Walnut & Goat’s Cheese Breakfast Buns (Muffins) I have been jamming, as in making the sweet conserve, and baking……the wet and cold weather brings out the baker and preserver in me……as if I need to feed the soul and lay down stores for the winter. By nine o’clock this morning I…
Cake Stall Baking ~ Double Chocolate and Summer Berries Truffle Slice
~ Cake Stall Baking ~ Double Chocolate and Summer Berries Truffle Slice I’ve been baking….Cake Stall Baking, baking with chocolate and summer berries, and salted butter, and cocoa…..it’s been a veritable feast of calorie laden ingredients and the kitchen has been infused with a rich chocolatey aroma…..it’s great to break free of calorie counting and diets now…
Low Calorie Vanilla Bean Scones for a Wimbledon Strawberries & Cream Tea
Low Calorie Vanilla Bean Scones for a Wimbledon Strawberries & Cream Tea I swore to myself that I wouldn’t cash in on the “W” word on my blog, and it has been easier enough not to mention it until now…….but now, I find myself with a PERFECT Wimbledon recipe, and it’s gone STRAIGHT in to…
The Long French Lunch and Poulet Nomade ~ Nomad’s Chicken (Herb Poached Chicken in a Jar)
~ The Long French Lunch ~ Poulet Nomade ~ Nomad’s Chicken (Herb Poached Chicken in a Jar) Yes, it’s still raining, even in France where I am now for the summer……each day brings more shades of grey, and different levels of drizzle and dampness…….We’ve had ONE sunny day, when I had the picnic at the bottom…
Pan Bagnat ~ A French Picnic Sandwich for a Summer’s Day Picnic at the Bottom of the Garden!
This recipe for my version of a classic Pan Bagnet includes extra ham and veggies as well as the traditional cheese, tomatoes and olives. The stuffed and pressed whole loaf of bread is ideal for sharing at a picnic on a warm summer’s day! A Summer Garden Picnic Yes, it may be hard to believe,…