Cream of Mushroom Soup
Its cold and wet, I want a nice warm bowl of homemade soup. I think soup is the easiest thing to make in the world. Unless you’re trying something fancy,…
November 2012
BBC Good Food Show Winter – its on its way!
For all those Midlands based foodies out there, its the BBC Good Food Show Winter next week – at the NEC Birmingham from 28 November – 2 December. I’m very…
End of the month dinners..
Its almost payday but not quite. We don’t want to do a food shop until we’re paid…but inspiration is running low. Time to do a stocktake and plan some cheap…
Baked Chicken with Onions & Tomatoes
As you know, I’m a fan of batch cooking. Both of us work full time and often work late and away from home. You probably know from your own lives…
Mary Berry’s melting moments
I decided to do some baking yesterday. I know, not like me but I just felt the need to make something sweet! I didn’t have a lot of sweet ingredients…
Dukkah Spiced Belly Pork
We love belly pork in our house. Its a cheap cut and when roasted in the oven for a couple of hours, tastes like heaven. I don’t even mind when…
Pastry Topped Fish & Leek Pie
As part of my Saturday batch cooking I made these individual fish pies. They are relatively quick to make and don’t take too much effort. The recipe came from one…
Happy Birthday Chocolate Alchemy!
Tonight we braved the rain and cold to go down to Chocolate Alchemy in Loughborough. They were celebrating their 3rd birthday today – quite an achievement for an independent business…
Skinny Cream Cheese Choccy Brownies
This is a recipe my American friend gave me – these Skinny Cream Cheese Choccy Brownies are absolutely delicious, fudgy and moist and you would never know that they are…
My Kitchen Style
As you will know if you read my blog frequently, I recently moved house. I’ve now turned my attention to making my kitchen (my favourite room in the house) look…