Friday, June 25th, 2010
Last year we went down to our local pick your own site for our strawberries – you can read about it here, so this year we decided to grow our own strawberries, and they are doing very well indeed. So red and incredibly juicy. So, we figured what better way to enjoy them than within [...]
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
This past Saturday we made the most of the sun and had our lunch outside. I bought my twin girls and husband over to see Cherry & Robert (Cha-Cha & Rot-Bot as they are more commonly known) and we cooked them lunch. Our motivation was that this would most probably be the last time my [...]
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Spinach, Prosciutto & Goats Cheese Salad – serves 2 adults Click here for our cooking & weight conversion chart There is a certain spinach salad that I order every time I eat in a certain Italian restaurant. I eat it with such gusto that even though I order a large portion I nearly always contemplate [...]
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
When you are pregnant all of the foods that you are supposedly not ‘allowed’ to eat suddenly become irresistible. Take this Crab Salad for instance. Shellfish is not encouraged during pregnancy and so I had to make myself a tiny wee portion of this salad ‘sans crab’. It was important that I had at least [...]
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Whenever I look at scallops they remind me of long hot summery days spent on the beach. But in actual fact they are great right now too! When buying scallops it’s always best to buy hand-caught as the dredged variety causes more damage to the environment. Hand-caught will be a bit pricier but I think [...]
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
It’s Day Two of Jam Week and today we’re actually going to make some of the good stuff. *To begin with have all of your weighed ingredients and equipment out in front of you (you can find a weight conversion chart here) If you haven’t made jam before (and even if you have) then this [...]
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Packing a Picnic Lunch for Children in the Style of Dick Whittington It’s nice to be able to use up scraps of fabric in a way that doesn’t always end up with the scrap becoming a tea-towel. We’re having a great summer here in the UK with the weather behaving REALLY WELL. This means that [...]
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
This recipe is GREAT if you can’t do the whole ‘breakfast thing’ as soon as you wake up. I know that breakfast is very important but some of us need to be up and about for at least an hour before we start another day of shoveling food down our gullets so this smoothie acts [...]
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
To Shell or Not to Shell! Broad beans are back on the menu and they are a welcome sight, especially as the sunny days of late have given way to grey drizzle. I first got into broad beans in a big way in 2006 on our first trip down to the River Cottage. They were [...]
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
It’s Tuesday, so I’m back in the kitchen but this time with an obsession! Warm Goats Cheese & Apple Salad I go through food phases. Phases where I have the same thing day after day, week after week and don’t bore of them. Recent phases have included, the Tomato & Oregano dish I wrote about [...]
