Brioche, Pancakes and Marmalade March! Chocolate Marmalade Brioche Bread and Butter Pudding Today is Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake day; it’s the last day before Lent and a chance to use up all those ingredients such as eggs, milk, sugar and jam that are traditionally not eaten during the Lenten period. Nowadays, we aren’t as…
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Something Different for Pancake Day! Bacon and Banana Pancake Strips with Smoked Chilli Honey (Recipe)
Something Different for Pancake Day! Bacon and Banana Pancake Strips with Smoked Chilli Honey (Recipe) My mum is a dab hand at making pancakes and we don’t have to wait until pancake day (Shrove Tuesday) to enjoy them, as she often makes them for breakfast throughout the year……thin, lacy ones as well as fat Scotch…
Chocolate Orange Curd with Godiva Chocolates and Clementines
Chocolate Orange Curd with Godiva Chocolates and Clementines I love making preserves of all kinds and regular Lavender and Lovage readers will know that I share recipes for jam, marmalade, pickles, chutney, relish and curds regularly. One of my most popular recipes, both with my readers and with my family (and me!) is my mum’s recipe for Lemon…
Popovers, Puddings and Chocolate! Mixed Berry and Chocolate Popovers Recipe
Popovers, Puddings and Chocolate! Mixed Berry and Chocolate Popovers Recipe When is a Yorkshire pudding a dessert, when it is a Popover of course, although I remember having Yorkshire pudding served with jam, honey and golden syrup for Sunday tea, so we also serve our national pudding as a sweet treat too. So what are popovers?…
Meatloaf or Terrine? An Easy Recipe for Pork Sausage and Orange Terrine (Gluten Free)
Meatloaf or Terrine? An Easy Recipe for Pork Sausage and Orange Terrine (Gluten Free) Cue a busy day, I am still suffering from post-travel fatigue and lethargy, suitcases are abandoned with the contents spewing out like a collapsed circus tent…..train tickets and passports set the kitchen table and “travel snacks” adorn several areas of the kitchen surfaces, it’s…
Easy Light Lunch for a 5:2 Diet Day: Salmon and Spring Onion Gratins (250 Calories) Recipe
Easy Light Lunch for a 5:2 Diet Day: Salmon and Spring Onion Gratins (250 Calories) Recipe Sometimes, when I am busy, it’s quite hard to think up new and easy recipes to make and enjoy on my 5:2 diet “fast days” where I have a limit of 500 calories to eat in one day –…
A Romantic Continental Breakfast with Thorntons Chocolates!
Review: A Romantic Continental Breakfast with Thorntons Chocolates! I took the journey recently, as a test drive for Valentine’s day and in the interests of the masses, I tested some lovely Thorntons Chocolates that arrived for me…..in readiness for Valentine’s day and other special occasions – I hope you will all thank me for my…
Tasty Low-Calorie 5:2 Diet Recipe: Garlic, Herb and Parmesan Crusted Chicken Schnitzels
Tasty Low-Calorie 5:2 Diet Recipe: Garlic, Herb and Parmesan Crusted Chicken Schnitzels This recipe for low-calorie Garlic, Herb and Parmesan Crusted Chicken Schnitzels is as old as the hills, and I have been making these forever, but, then the last time I was cooking these fillets, I thought they really cannot be that high in…
Award Winning Marmalade: Lemon and Lime Marmalade
This recipe for Lemon and Lime marmalade is a firm family favourite. It has a tangy and pronounced lime flavour and would be especially good with some extra added booze! I’ve provided full step by step photos and instructions so there is no excuse not to whip up a few jars. Disclaimer: I was sent…
Sunday Baking: A Beautiful Easy Quick Bread Recipe – Zuri’s South African Picnic Bread
Sunday Baking: A Beautiful Easy Quick Bread Recipe – Zuri’s South African Picnic Bread – Today’s post is tinged with some sadness; my recipe today is for Zuri’s South African Picnic Bread, and it has been made by way of a condolence message for my good friend Zuri (Zuretha) who lost her husband Gideon last…
Festive Fun and Frivolity! Tea Cup After Eight Chocolate Mint Mousse
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…
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…