Eat well - travel often
How to make an American Inspired Rice Pudding: Something I have been meaning to do lately is make my American inspired rice pudding. I remember the rice pudding my grandma used to make, creamy with lovely plump raisins but I never really got the recipe […]
I like to make a soup on a Sunday afternoon for Mr R and myself to take to work during the week and certainly on a cold windy day! I usually base the soup around something that is leftover from our Sunday lunch and this […]
I often make a soup on a Sunday afternoon but every now and then I make a cake instead. I recently saw an interesting recipe on Facebook for a layered cherry cake but the recipe used tinned cherry pie filling and since I do try […]
I like to make a pot of soup on a Sunday afternoon. This week I used the stock I made from boiling the Christmas gammon I got to cook. This gammon has fed us on Christmas Day, cold cuts on Boxing Day, creamy cheese and ham noodles and now a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
One of the greatest gifts in life is a grandchild. Get more and the gift just keeps on growing. I am very fortunate to have Elizabeth (3 and a half years old) and Logan (2 years old). Elizabeth is just getting to the stage when […]