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 [...]
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
I’m all about cakes right now. Small cakes, big cakes, complicated cakes, simple cakes, cup cakes and cakes that make you happy by just looking at them. It helps if they make you happy when you’re eating them also so I’m having fun working on all sorts of tasty recipes that will make their way [...]
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Hello! Welcome to the week here at Cherry Menlove.com We have so much to tell you, show you and give you this week that I’m bursting to get going. So I shall……. Mothering Sunday is this coming Sunday here in the UK so we’re getting ahead of ourselves and uploading the how-to for this darling [...]
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Plum Crumble Recipe I woke up this morning and it was still proper dark outside. I had to do something at ‘silly o’clock’ and I turned to see if Robert the Husband wanted a cuppa before I got on. His response having opened one eye was “It’s winterrrrrrr”. I knew what he meant. Although it’s [...]
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
This is a recipe that came out of a need to use up a pack of chicken that was in the fridge. I didn’t want to freeze it and it needed to be cooked. So I grabbed an empty jar of cajun seasoning, read the ingredients out loud to myself, omitted the crap that they put in to those jars, gathered some herbs and [...]
Monday, August 24th, 2009
It is not long before the children will be packing their little ruck-sacks and heading back to start another year of school. This is a great project that may help them to get excited about going back and they can actually use it. *We used a sewing machine for this project but this pencil case [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Hello! I’ve been looking forward to this week’s batch of postings. I’m doing something I’ve never done before which is a whole week based on the the same subject – a THEMED week. And the theme is? Jam. For the whole of this week we’re celebrating the summeriest of summer kitchen activities – making Strawberry [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
You can find a weight conversion chart here! Wash and hull the selection of summer berries you have chosen. In a large saucepan, combine the vanilla sugar and the water and heat gently over a low heat until it starts to bubble. Add the summer berries to the saucepan with the sugar water and stir [...]
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
A Stack of Vanilla & Cinnamon Infused Blueberry Pancakes by Cherry Menlove I love what I consider to be the classics in food. Tomato, Basil & Mozzarella, a good beef ragu, roast chicken torn off the bone, whilst still hot, by hand etc. A classic on the breakfast scene are blueberry pancakes, a stack of [...]
