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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes life just costs more money than you’d like it too and sometimes, well okay most weeks I blow huge amounts of money on food shopping… I try not to, I get side-tracked… Really I’m going to make more effort, not only to be more economical but to be more frugal too – use up [...]
There’s been lots of hoo-hah on mummy blogs recently about giving Nutella to children as a *healthy* breakfast. Just pop over to More than Just a Mother and have a look at some of those comments…
I have no issue with either eating Nutella myself or giving it to my children for breakfast. I don’t give it [...]