Over the last few years I have sarted to cut down the amount of meat that I have been eating but this winter I really turned towards a plant focused diet. Adding a lot more beans and grains to my diet helped in a large way by the addition of the Instant Pot to my kitchen at Christmas as this… Read more »
This blog was never supposed to be a cooking blog but here I am writing out a recipe. Almost purely so that I can have a way of keeping track of my recipes and don’t have to keep riffling through lots of random pieces of paper every time I want to find a meal I cooked. This is a lockdown… Read more »
The last couple of days has been a massive realisation that Christmas is coming super quickly. Yes it is almost a month away but our commitments start on the 1st with our Advent Calendars (one each for Nikki, Pippa and the Parents!). Then we are hosting around 40 people for Mince Pies and Mulled wine on the 8th and 10… Read more »
We have been looking on Freecycle a lot lately to source things for our new raised bed (more on that soon) and I have expanded out to also look at FreeAds and GumTree, well the other day I saw a post for a pair of walking boots in size 7 and as I’m looking to sell my old too small… Read more »
Well it is coming up to easter now and part of that means creme eggs! I love these, and I wanted to do some baking, so I decided to combine the two and make some creme egg brownies. The recipe I used for this was a modified version of Mocha Brownies. Recipe: (Makes 32 ish) 110g/4oz Butter 130g/8oz Plain chocolate… Read more »
So I have been aiming to make macarons for quite a while now. They look so amazing when I see them in shops but they look really quite difficult to make… I did once make them before, but I cheated and used a macaron mix in a pack… This is how my macarons turned out last time from a pack… Read more »
There have been a number of recipes flying around pinterest for one pot pasta dishes and I thought I’d try one out, with my own spin… One pot pasta inspiration http://pinterest.com/pin/29343835044940936/ This was the inspiration for my meal although I made a few tweaks based upon what I had available. For the veg I used frozen peas and sweetcorn, I used… Read more »
Right well this banoffee pie might not have turned out quite as well as I’d hoped it would, nor as well as my previous one did… but atleast I have some tips on what not to do… Banoffee Pie: From bbcgoodfood 300g biscuits (digestive/hobnobs are best – but I used some choc chip cookies i’d made that I hadn’t eaten… Read more »
Well I saw on facebook my friends talking about a Nutella Cold Coffee recipe that they’d seen on Pintrest, and I <3 nutella, and this sounds like it would taste like the iced coffees I used to have a couple of years ago. (which reminds me…I haven’t seen them in shops recently, I hope they’re still around). So I decided… Read more »
Well that itch to make something in the kitchen got the better of me again, and after looking through the cupboards I decided bread would probably be a better option than cakes because we’re more likely to actually finish it. I have to say I’m rather bad at actually eating all the stuff I make, I need more people around… Read more »
