Eat well - travel often
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans I do love peanut butter cookies and I love chocolate chip cookies so it made sense to combine them, add some chopped pecan nuts and bake a really delicious cookie. These are perfect to have with your afternoon […]
Ad Recipe: Fresh Summery Tomato Pasta Sauce At the end of the tomato season there are many ways to preserve that bit of sunshine, aroma and taste we associate with fresh tomatoes. You can ferment, bottle, chutney your tomatoes however one of my favourite ways […]
Ad-sponsored post Recipe: Waldorf Salad Ice Cream (blue cheese, apple, walnuts and celery) If you love a cheese board packed with your favourite cheeses I bet you would have a blue cheese – Stilton, Danish blue, Rochefort or similar. Do you find that by the […]
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Papaya, Pineapple & Chilli Glazed Chicken Sometime when I am shopping I see an ingredient that gets my brain wizzing. What can I make with it to tingle the tastebuds? This time I saw a couple of papayas reduced for a quick sale so I […]
One Pan Supper with Supreme Sausages (AD) Recently I was introduced to Supreme Sausages and sent a couple of packs of their sausages – Chalgrove’s English Pork and Spiced Pork & Honey. About the sausages:- The Chalgrove’s English Pork are named after the village of […]
Tepeche – Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink Since the start of Lockdown in March 2020 I really got into fermenting and looking after our immune system by way of keeping our gut happy. My newest ferment is a Mexican drink called Tepeche! Tepeche is a fermented […]
Recipe: Harira Soup traditional for Ramadan For Muslims worldwide Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting, prayer and reflection and is a time for fasting during the day, from sun up to sun down. As the time to break […]
Ham, Cheese and Vegetable Strata This is a recipe that I have made many many times and it is always a crowd pleaser. If you have friends or family coming over for drinks and an easy supper (even if we are still relegated to the […]
Recipe for Sausage and Roast Aubergine Pasta Sauce The days are cold and we have been shut inside our houses for what seems like forever. There is nothing like coming home and the whole house smells like your favourite cuisine – Italian! Ingredients: I went […]
Here is a delicious recipe for Stem Ginger Mincemeat. These days people just pop mince pies into their mouth without thinking of the contents inside. Those contents are often mass made and hardly resemble the mincemeat of days gone by. If you want a real […]
Here is my recipe for the easiest summer fruit cobbler: Blackberry, Blueberry, Peach or Plum the choice is yours but this easy bake fruit dessert is perfect for feeding the family after Sunday lunch, intimate dessert for two, serve to companyor just because you fancy […]
Here is the recipe you always wanted – Homemade Bread and Butter pickles! Ever since I can remember we always had pickles in the fridge just waiting for a sandwich or salad to come along! One of my favourites was the Bread & Butter Pickles […]
Here is my recipe for a low fat Victorian Fruit Tea Cake:- I have made this really simple fruit cake for years, ever since my first mother in law introduced me to sliced fruit cake with a thick layer of unsalted butter and a lovely […]
Here is my recipe for Rhubarb, Strawberry and Ginger Jam. Rhubarb is at the height of its season right now. Rhubarb pairs especially well with apple and strawberries and also with ginger. The perfect way to preserve this quintessential English recipe is by making home […]
Here is my Banana Bread recipe using a packet of batter mix. During the Coronavirus pandemic England suffered a general flour shortage. Whilst staring at empty shelves that had once held a plethora of different flours there was only packets of Yorkshire pudding batter mix. […]