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…
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Courvoisier Cognac Comes Home! A Team GB Golden Celebration Party with Courvoisier Punch
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…
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…
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…
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…
British Classics, Elizabeth Shaw, Be-Ro and an Olympic Medal Milk Chocolate Cake Recipe
British Classics, Elizabeth Shaw and Be-Ro Olympic Medal Milk Chocolate Cake Recipe Christmas arrived early for me recently, as I was sent a FABULOUS hamper of chocolate by one of my favourite British chocolate companies, Elizabeth Shaw. I was brought up with Elizabeth Shaw – their chocolates ALWAYS made an appearance for birthdays, Christmas and other special occasions, including dinner parties too. And,…
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…
Just in time for the BBQ ~ English Lavender Marinade for Beef, Lamb or Chicken
Just in time for the BBQ ~ English Lavender Marinade for Beef, Lamb or Chicken ~ Lavender is a traditional cottage garden plant. Its grey-green spikes of foliage and purple flowers provide colour all year. Since the Middle Ages, the dried flowers have been one of the main ingredients of potpourri. Fresh sprigs are included…
Frugal but Comforting Family Fare: Stuffed Tomatoes with Herbs & Oats (Gluten Free)
Frugal but Comforting Family Fare: Stuffed Tomatoes with Herbs & Oats (Gluten Free) This is an old family recipe, one that has been welcome on my table for many years and before that on my mum and grandmother’s table too…..a recipe that is comforting and yet frugal, a recipe that “pads” out the meat but…
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…
Fish on Friday: Low-Fat Cumin Scented Plaice Goujons with a Panko Crumb
Fish on Friday: Cumin Scented Plaice Goujons with a Panko Crumb Fish on Friday – my regular weekly post to try to encourage you all to EAT fish! And yes, I can share “high faluting” recipes here, and in fact I DO have a couple up my sleeve to share later, but, what I LOVE about fish, and…
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 had…
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…
