Gorgeous, quick to make and a great dish for letting the children lend a hand. Ideally it’s cooked on a BBQ but…. I live in Manchester so mainly it’s cooked in a pan…
This recipe serves 2 big people and 2 little people – adjust as you will
What you need: – taco
3 chicken breasts or 6 [...]
The lovely Innocent Smoothie making people are celebrating the launch of their new alphabet magnets with a little alphabet photograph game to play along visit their website you can of course win prizes!
I’m the Innocent Queen of V soooooo after sitting with the children who obviously wanted me to stick the V magnet onto the [...]
I am a soup pioneer today/not got much in… Honestly it’s nice!
What you need:
1 small onion
2 sticks celery
1 head of broccoli
1 medium potato
1 – 2 heaped teaspoon marmite (depending on your marmite love)
approx 600ml vegetable stock
What you do:
Peel and roughly chop the onion and potato
Thinly slice the celery
Chop up the entire broccoli head, leaves and [...]
I’ve spent the last couple of days tucked up on the sofa recovering nicely from having Elliot and watching the entire series of Jamie at Home. Now as you probably already know I am a HUGE Jamie Oliver fan and he makes several appearances a week at our table. I’ve been given the Jamie at [...]
Inspired by the lovely Amy from and 1 more means 4…. and 1 more and the also very lovely Ellen from In a Bun Dance I’m doing a nice positive blog ooozing with things I just love!
So here it is… the things I just love…
the smell of rain on hot dusty pavements
getting into a bed [...]
The lovely people over at Silver Spoon sent me some Cakecraft products and what better way to use them than baking gorgeous little Halloween cupcakes. The children had a great time baking these and an even better time decorating them!
What you need: (makes 12)
4oz unsalted butter
4oz caster sugar
4oz self raising flour
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla flavouring
2 [...]
Simple, juicy and a perfect autumn dinner.
What you need:
12 chipolata sausages (use good ones with high meat content)
3 large carrots
2 large eating apples
1 red onion
400 ml cider (I use Aspall Organic Suffolk Cider because its my favourite)
2 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp dark brown sugar
Handful of picked fresh thyme leaves (or 2 tsp dried thyme)
1 clove [...]
Oooo it’s my favourite time of year again… Halloween. I just love Halloween the outrageous food creations, excited children dressed up as witches and bats all giggly and scared. I can’t wait to do a little Halloween party for them and make all the decorations and obviously really go to town with the goo, gore, fake [...]
I recently read an article in the Telegraph about Getting Kids Cooking all about how if you want to get kids really interested in cooking and producing good food you need to take the fun out of it. Well okay not all the fun, it details how Nigella Lawson was brought up ‘helping’ her mother [...]
Soup is one of the most frugal meals you can make, it has endless possibilities, it’s filling, it’s easy to make and ideal for using up the last little bits of vegetables left over from the week.
This simple recipe perfect for early Autumn when the opportunity to use up gluts of homegrown tomatoes arises, this [...]