A Summer Supper Special Today’s post for Updating a Classic! Bacon and Egg Caesar Salad, is all about speed and a plethora of eggs! It was a hot late spring day, just a few weeks ago – I’d been writing some commissioned work since about 6am in the morning, and I could sense that it was time…
Casual Party
“American Diner” Breakfast Skillet
with Spicy Sausage, Mushrooms, Hash Brown Potatoes and Cheese I lived in the USA for several years when I was in my twenties, and one of the things I aways looked forward to every weekend, was a visit to the local Diner for brunch or breakfast; in the local diner (which was built onto a vintage…
Confetti “Funfetti” Chiffon Cake for Easter Sunday Tea
A Spring & Summer Celebration Cake Confetti “Funfetti” Chiffon Cake for Easter Sunday Tea – This delightful rainbow speckled cake looks bright and cheerful, is fun and tastes delicious! But, what’s in a name? Well, after some research, I discovered that these pretty and very colourful cakes were the invention of the Pillsbury Company, who introduced…
French Cheese and English Honey…….
……with Le Rustique How do you improve upon perfection? Well, I think I have the answer, today’s post is all about French Cheese and English Honey……and to improve upon the natural perfection of both ingredients, I’ve created three fabulous recipes with the French brand, Le Rustique, using English honey for the perfect culinary entente cordiale! Today’s recipes use…
Topsy Turvy Blackcurrant Cheesecake Trifles for Easter!
with Nature’s Path Organic These Topsy Turvy Blackcurrant Cheesecake Trifles for Easter are so easy to make, and have the benefit of being gluten-free and vegetarian. They are whipped up in under half an hour, and you can make them a few hours before you need to serve them, which means they are also a boon…
Pork Balchão – Goan Pickled Spiced Pork
A Portuguese-Indian Classic Pork curry is not usually on my radar, as I prefer lamb or chicken curry, but, when I bought several kilos of locally reared pork for the freezer recently, I decided to research a curried pork recipe that I’d enjoyed many years ago, Pork Balchão – Goan Pickled Spiced Pork. Balchão is a spicy…
The Lactofree Challenge and Pork & Pepper Enchiladas
Notes and a Family Recipe I, and all my close family, as far as I know, are not lactose intolerant, but, I was fascinated to try the Arla Lactofree Challenge for two weeks, which involved cutting out all lactose products to see how we all felt, and at the same time, to see if there was…
A Vintage Recipe: Queen Cakes for Mothering Sunday
Cakes and Treats for Mother’s Day Today, the 2oth March 2017, is the Spring Equinox; the equinox falls on March the 19th or 20th every year, marking spring’s beginning in the Northern Hemisphere, or autumn in the southern hemisphere. It’s always been a time of renewal and hope in ancient cultures, and I am affected in…
Potato Salad with SPAM®
SPAM® Appreciation Week & a Giveaway There’s a lot of food snobbery about tinned (canned) meat, and people can get quite sniffy about it; but, most tinned meats are usually much higher in meat content than ready meals and fast food, and I think they get a bad rap. SPAM® is one such tinned meat that…
Bannocks, Fry Bread and Indian Tacos
A Canadian First Nations Staple Recipe Whilst travelling in Canada recently, I saw the emergence of more and more First Nations restaurants and cafes in the towns and cities I visited, where Bannocks, Fry Bread and Indian Tacos are the signature dishes at most of these authentic indigenous eateries; and, whilst eating in these restaurants,…
A Tale of Many Cabbage Roll Recipes & Sausage Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
Or…… Gołąbki, Kåldolmar, Pigeons, Halupkies, Dolmas, Kohlrouladen, Holubtsi, Holishkes, Golubtsy…… About Cabbages and Kings etc etc….. Gołąbki are also referred to as golombki, golumpki, golabki, golumpkies, golumpkis, gluntkes, or gwumpki. Similar variations are called holubky (Slovak), töltött káposzta (Hungarian), holubtsi (Ukrainian), golubtsy (Russian), balandėliai (Lithuanian), Kohlrouladen in Germany (or sarma a Turkish loan-word, commonly applied…
Going Bananas: Banana Bread Cake with Buttercream
Plus LOTS of Banana Bread, Banana Cake and Banana Muffin Recipes! Today, I am literally going bananas, as I try to cope with 2 kilos of varying degrees of very ripe (and black) bananas that my husband “forgot” to eat or use whilst I was away! Enter today’s recipe for Banana Bread Cake with Buttercream, which is…
Butternut Squash Spaghetti with Peppers, Shallots and Pine Nuts
with OXO Good Grips 3 Blade Spiralizer Yes, I know, I know, they are everywhere, spiralized veggies that is, and I have dabbled with spiralized vegetables before, with several bowls of courgetti making an appearance on the Lavender and Lovage table, but today’s recipe for Butternut Squash Spaghetti with Peppers, Shallots and Pine Nuts has…
Frosted Ginger Cake with Crystallised Ginger
For the Winter Tea Time Table There is nothing wrong with a good old-fashioned ginger cake, gingerbread loaf or even parkin, but, sometimes you just need to raise the game when baking a classic cake, and today’s recipe for Frosted Ginger Cake with Crystallised Ginger does just that. As a big fan of ginger, a ginger…
“Snowy Day” Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup
Perfect for 5:2 Fast Day and Weight Watchers Hot on the heels of my last “healthy” new year recipe for 5:2 Diet & WW Chicken Mergeuz Meatballs, which has proved to be very popular, is my latest creation,“Snowy Day” Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup. Today’s recipe was made yesterday, for a cold and snowy day here in…
