Kenwood Christmas Menu: Sweet Endings with Pomegranates, Pudding and Pavlova As you know from my post last week, I am one of five lucky food writers/bloggers that are participating in the Kenwood Christmas Menu challenge in the run up to Christmas; we were all sent a Kenwood Titanium Chef to help with our preparation for a fabulous…
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Stir Up Sunday, Traditions and my Traditional Victorian Christmas Pudding Recipe
Stir Up Sunday, Traditions and my Traditional Victorian Christmas Pudding Recipe Tomorrow is Stir-Up Sunday, as well as St Catherine’s Day, a double celebration; I usually make cattern cakes on St Catherine’s day as is it my Saint’s Day, being a Karen, which is a derivative of Catherine…….however, tomorrow it is all about Christmas puddings, and although…
Elegant Fish on Friday: Easy Smoked Haddock au Gratin Recipe
Elegant Fish on Friday: Easy Smoked Haddock au Gratin Recipe It’s Friday and that can only mean one thing, my weekly Fish on Friday post, and a NEW and very easy recipe, Easy Smoked Haddock and Salmon au Gratin – an elegant and comforting meal that is made with TOP quality Scottish smoked haddock, with thanks to John…
Lincolnshire Plum Bread: A Fabulous Festive Fruit Bread and Random Recipe
Lincolnshire Plum Bread: A Fabulous Festive Fruit Bread and Random Recipe One of the comments I see lots of new bloggers saying over and over again, is how do they get noticed and generate comments as well as engage with the rest of the blogging community on their blogs; well, I felt just the same…
Lazy Blue and White Lunch: Garlic Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables Recipe
Lazy Blue and White Lunch: Garlic Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables Recipe Who can resist a roast chicken for Sunday lunch – a lovely free-range organic bird slowly roasting, releasing its aromatic fragrance throughout the house, sizzling quietly away in the oven whilst a trip to pub is arranged or maybe a brisk walk with…
Kenwood Christmas Menu: Christmas Pudding Chocolate Spread and Spiced Quince & Cranberry Chutney
Kenwood Christmas Menu: Christmas Pudding Chocolate Spread and Spiced Quince & Cranberry Chutney Christmas arrived early last week, a VERY large and VERY heavy parcel was delivered to me, all wrapped in Christmas paper and with a card, just for me, from Kenwood. To say that I was ecstatic would be an understatement, I was very, very…
Festive Fish on Friday: Clementine and Honey Roast Salmon Salad with Wasabi Dressing Recipe
Festive Fish on Friday: Clementine and Honey Roast Salmon Salad with Wasabi Dressing Recipe My Fish on Friday post today is a little festive – I am starting to think of easy and yet spectacular ways to serve salads as part of the Christmas and New Year buffet table, as well as for light, tasty…
Weekly Meal Plan and a Hearty Family Supper Recipe: Sausage and Apple Casserole in Cider
Weekly Meal Plan and a Hearty Family Supper Recipe: Sausage and Apple Casserole in Cider It’s been a funny week, as you all know I was living off WW2 rations last week and I have found it quite hard to get back into the swing of things since then! I enjoyed my week in the Wartime…
Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea
Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea High Flight (John Gillespie Magee, Jr.) Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things You have not dreamed…
The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe It was my intention to cook a meal in a Hay Box at sometime in my wartime kitchen week; a hay box was a simple way to continue cooking a meal whilst you were out, or in order to save energy. The casserole, soup…
The Wartime Kitchen and Day Five – Ration Book Fish on Friday: Devilled Fish Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and Day Five – Ration Book Fish on Friday: Devilled Fish Recipe Today is day five of my wartime ration book cooking challenge, and it’s Friday, which means it has to be fish on Friday. We may not all follow the traditional fish on Friday menu plan nowadays, such a shame I think, but…
The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe – Day four of my living off wartime rations, and I am hankering after a little meat in my diet, curiously enough, as I am not a huge meat-eater normally. I still have my bacon and meat rations left, as well as my cheese…
The Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking – Day Three: Eggs and Egg in a Nest: WW2 Mock Fried Egg Recipe
The Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking – Day Three: Eggs and Egg in a Nest: WW2 Mock Fried Egg Recipe Today is day three of my Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking challenge, and today is all about eggs. Yesterday was a vegetarian day for us, and I made a rather tasty Woolton Pie, you can…
A Bonfire Treat! Sticky Yorkshire Ginger Parkin with Quince and Pomegranate Compote
A Bonfire Treat! Sticky Yorkshire Ginger Parkin with Quince and Pomegranate Compote I LOVE sticky ginger parkin, it’s one of my favourite treats at this time of the year, and is JUST perfect for Bonfire night along with treacle toffee aka Tom Trot toffee, tomato soup in cups, chilli, stews, soups and toffee apples…..my recipe…
Milk Fadge: Emergency Bread (No Yeast) Recipe
This Milk Fadge Bread recipe makes a lovely textured bread with no yeast needed. It slices well once it is cold, making it perfect for sandwiches and toast. Milk Fadge – No-Yeast Bread Even with a well stocked store cupboard like mine (keep scrolling for my list), I can be let down. So when I…
