Beetroot, Chickpea & Spinach Curry This is seasonal. Very colourful. It is mightily tasty. Although this beetroot, chickpea and spinach curry may be ingredients you’ve not thought to combine before, you really should! The recipe This recipe uses fresh raw beetroot so you can take advantage of your homegrown beets! Of course, you can use beetroot from the market or…
Chocolate & Vanilla Marbled Shortbread You could have delicious shortbread. Or, you could have two delicious shortbreads! This chocolate and vanilla marbled shortbread combines two delicious shortbreads in one. You get both flavours in one bite and it is so good! The Shortbread Recipe This is a very straightforward recipe with ingredients you probably already have at home. You can…
Welsh cakes for breakfast, afternoon tea or just a snack! If you’ve never tried these before, you are in a for a treat! Welsh cakes are a cross between a flat scone and a fat pancake, studded with currants and sprinkled in sugar. These can easily be made ahead and stored in the fridge or freezer, then simply popped in…
English Muffins Wow! Straight from the oven these muffins have got to be one of the best things I have ever made! OMGosh! Totally amazing! 😀 You should must make these! Like right now! The Muffin Recipe This recipe uses straightforward ingredients, similar to breadmaking. Plain flour, yeast, sugar, salt, butter and milk. Obviously if you are vegan you can…
Vegan Vegetable & Tofu Burgers These are what they say – vegan and vegetable tofu burgers! No nuts, no breadcrumbs, just vegetables, tofu and some spices of course! These can be quickly whipped up when you realise you’ve nothing to have dinner, or when you want something easy to snack on. Yes, nothing complicated about these burgers, just tasty delicious…
Flapjack Cookies Sometimes a flapjack is just too much – too rich and too filling am I right? Well, now you can have flapjacks in cookie size! These tried and tested flapjack cookies will satisfy your flapjack and your cookie cravings in one! Genius! Oh, wait… scratch that! I just went to get one and they have vanished before my…
Cooking in a Lockdown! What a different week this has been! I hope you are all staying safe and well in these very difficult times. We have been cooking this week with what we had in stock – which was mostly lentils and chickpeas, until my delivery of fruit & vegetables yesterday (hooray!). This dish was created during the week,…
This is one of my Mum’s recipes! When I was growing up, we used to always have dessert… every day, probably twice at weekends! I suddenly realised that although I know how to make most of Mums savoury items, the desserts, bakes and cakes I don’t have the recipes for! I had forgotten about these delicious pastry encased apples –…
This lentil dish is spicy, warming, nutritious, protein packed and a fantastic budget meal for when you need to stretch your money a bit further! 😀 Where do I get lentils? More and more supermarkets are now stocking a wider range of lentils so you can easily add these to your weekly shop. I have used Yellow Mung Dal in…
