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Sunday Soup – Roast Pepper and Tomato

Sunday Soup – Roast Pepper and Tomato

It’s Sunday and as usual when we stay at my father-in-laws for the weekend I like to make a soup in the afternoon.  We usually have a roast Sunday lunch so tea time we just have soup and sandwich or roll and butter. This week […]

Blackberry Vodka

Blackberry Vodka

My Recipe for Homemade Blackberry Vodka This summer has seen the most amazing and prolific wild blackberry yield I have ever known! On my allotment we have had blackberries that are sweet, deep black and incredibly fragrant. Sparkly and suculent like black jewels just waiting to […]

The Spices of Life

The Spices of Life

This year I intend to try to spice up my cooking and with the help of Schwartz (www.schwartz.co.uk) I plan to do just that.  Schwartz have a new range of recipe inspiration kits out now, in major supermarkets, and each kit has a recipe and […]

Grandma’s Banana Bread

Grandma’s Banana Bread

Grandma’s Banana Bread   When I was growing up my mother would use up the old, wrinkly bananas to make her mother’s recipe for Banana Bread.  Over the years this became one of my favourite recipes and still reminds me of my childhood and because […]

I Love My Lunchbox –Total Greek Yogurt Event

I Love My Lunchbox –Total Greek Yogurt Event

I Love My lunchbox – Total Greek Yogurt Event: Sunday 28th of August (Bank Holiday Weekend) my friend Mandy and I caught a train from home to London Bridge and following a leasurely stroll down Tooley Street we arrived at Potter’s Fields a lovely park […]

Start Home Gardening

Start Home Gardening

I feel that my garden is almost as important as my kitchen.  In the summer our garden is an extension of our house, we spend as much time as the British weather will allow out there. If given the chance I would grow my own […]