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Herb garden

A few little essentials I couldn’t live without and herbs are so pretty I surround my outdoor table with herbs in just about every pretty container I can get my hands on and not only are they great to have at hand for cooking but also make for happy bees.

Basil perfect for lush tomato pasta [...]

Chargrilled Chicken Taco

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 [...]

Innocent - Queen of V

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 [...]

Broccoli and Marmite Soup

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 [...]

Lemon & Poppy Seed Scones

After reading a blog post by the very lovely Kitchen Witch about her taking her husband for tea at Mrs Bridges’s Pantry those lemon & poppy seed scones have been playing on my mind ever since. I’m only disappointed that it had never occurred to me to make them before… just think of all those [...]

Jamie at Home

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 [...]

a great big pan of spaghetti

Do note this is a whimsical recipe so measurements are kind of suit yourself….

When I’m really hungry the only thing that will really do for me is pasta, great big steaming pans of pasta and if that pasta happens to be luxuriating in a creamy sauce well then that’s just all the better.

One of [...]

National Curry Week and Cobra Beer

As this week is National Curry Week the people over at Cobra Beer have teamed up with some fabulous curry houses and have come up with some great ‘Br-Indian’ recipes to celebrate, these recipes are a spicy twist on regional favourites and include…

Devonshire Cream Chai
Cornish Samosa
Yorkshire Chilli Pepper Pudding
Lancashire Hot Hot Hot [...]

Things I love

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 [...]

Halloween Cupcakes

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 [...]