Festive Fun and Frivolity! Tea Cup After Eight Chocolate Mint Mousse Who doesn’t love chocolate, and especially chocolate puds and desserts! So, when I was approached by After Eight Mints, the Rolls Royce of the chocolate after dinner mint world, I was pleased to accept their challenge to design and create a recipe using their…
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Beat the Winter Blues: Pumpkin, Walnut & Poppy Seed Muffins with Cheddar Cheese
Beat the Winter Blues: Pumpkin, Walnut & Poppy Seed Muffins with Cheddar Cheese One of the things I love most about autumn and winter is the wonderful choice of seasonal vegetables that are on offer; brassicas and cabbages of all sizes and hues – with red being a particular favourite of mine. Potatoes, parsnips, kale…
Frugal Family Fare: Roast Chicken & Ham Pie with a Suet Dumpling Crust
Frugal Family Fare: Roast Chicken & Ham Pie with a Suet Dumpling Crust Who doesn’t love a pie, well we all do in my house and especially when it’s as easy to make as this one is…..it’s essentially a Sunday Roast pie made with the left overs from a few weeks ago, but, it’s also…
Meal Planning Monday and Cheesy Stuffed Supper Spuds (Baked Jacket Potatoes) Recipe
Meal Planning Monday and Cheesy Stuffed Supper Spuds (Baked Jacket Potatoes) Recipe Today’s recipe comes with a meal plan, of sorts, as I need to get organised this week with so much on my agenda; there will be still be 2 “fast” days to fit in for the 5:2 diet. Malcolm and I are doing…
Pumpkin, Kale and Walnut Galette with Pancetta and Onion Jam
Pumpkin, Kale and Walnut Galette with Pancetta and Onion Jam I love receiving hampers of food, and recently a wonderful hamper arrived for me courtesy of Applewood Cheese, filled to the brim with delicious ingredients, as well as some Applewood spreadable cheese. As you may have guessed, I am taking part on a recipe challenge, hence my hamper full…
High Tea with Ham and Eggs and Marmalade Glazed Ham/Gammon Recipe
High Tea with Ham and Eggs and Marmalade Glazed Ham/Gammon Recipe Although it is almost winter and our wonderful, blazing autumn fades with every scarlet and russet leaf that drops, my chickens are still laying well and every day finds me walking back to the house with a small basket of eggs……some still warm with black, white…
Spanish Seafood & Chorizo Skewers and Spicy Pepper Stir-Fry Recipes with La Plancha
Spanish Seafood & Chorizo Skewers and Spicy Pepper Stir-Fry Recipes with La Plancha Just a little while ago, at the end of summer and beginning of autumn, my daughter came to see us in France for a little holiday, and we managed to grab the late summer sunshine whilst we still had it! One of the…
Sous Vide Poached Eggs: Posh Bacon & Eggs, Smoked Haddock & Eggs and Basic Poached Eggs
Sous Vide Poached Eggs: Posh Bacon & Eggs, Smoked Haddock & Eggs and Basic Poached Eggs Several months ago I was sent a Sous Vide Supreme water bath machine to trial and review; in return for my wonderful machine, and I have loved using it on many occasions, I committed to creating several recipes and…
Slow Sunday Brunch: Welsh Rabbit with Home-made Rustic French Boule (Bread)
Slow Sunday Brunch: Welsh Rabbit with Home-made Rustic French Boule (Bread) With an imminent hurricane and an extra hour in bed this morning, I decided to treat us to a “supper style” brunch – a firm favourite of ours and a dish that made use of some freshly baked bread I had made, a rustic…
Cauliflower – The Dieter’s Friend! Faux Mashed Potatoes – Cauliflower Mash Recipe
Cauliflower – The Dieter’s Friend! Faux Mashed Potatoes – Cauliflower Mash Recipe I love cauliflower, but my husband (and dad) are not that bothered by this most healthy of vegetables. Cauliflowers are part of the Brassica family and it has been claimed as the world’s healthiest vegetable: Nutrients in Cauliflower 1.00 cup raw (107.00 grams) Nutrient%Daily…
Bottling Tomatoes using the Water Bath Method: Step-by-Step Tutorial with Images & Recipe
It doesn’t matter now often you use your tomatoes in cooking and for salads etc, there always seems to be an excess of them, and this simple water bath method of bottling tomatoes is a great way to save them for the winter months ahead. Not so many years ago, and as recently as when…
Autumn Still Life: Figs stuffed with Blue Cheese and Lavender Honey Drizzle (Recipe)
Autumn Still Life: Figs stuffed with Blue Cheese and Lavender Honey Drizzle (Recipe) Although I have enjoyed the amazingly hot and sunny summer we have had in Europe this year, I do look forward to the cooler months, especially autumn, which is my favourite season. I’m not a huge fan of the darker mornings and…
A Simple & Elegant Low-Calorie Lunch: Lemon & Herb Poached Salmon Recipe (5:2 Diet)
A Simple & Elegant Low-Calorie Lunch: Lemon & Herb Poached Salmon Recipe (5:2 Diet) I LOVE salmon, I use salmon in my meal plans regularly and have a large and diverse selection of salmon recipes on Lavender and Lovage. I also find it perfect for simple low-calorie recipes on the 5:2 diet for fast days…
The Secret Recipe Club: Raspberry & Maple Granola Yoghurt Pots
The Secret Recipe Club: Raspberry & Maple Granola Yoghurt Pots For those eagle eyed readers amongst you who follow my monthly Secret Recipe Club posts, you may be thinking that my reveal day recipe is a little earlier than usual…….that’s because I have changed groups and I am now in Group C! I was in…
Your Sunday Best! A Fabulous Steamed Raspberry & Whisky Sponge Pudding Recipe
Your Sunday Best! A Fabulous Steamed Raspberry & Whisky Sponge Pudding Recipe Remember when Sunday’s was a day for getting dressed up in your “Sunday Best”? It’s not that long ago and I clearly remember visiting family on Sundays, as well as going to Sunday School in my best Sunday Best frock! We may not…
