So it’s January and the trend is that everyone tries to eat healthier after the indulgence of Christmas! Well I’ve never been very good at trends and with this cold snap we’re having at the moment I do think a comforting pud is just what’s needed right now! With all my bargain shopping I sometimes…
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Fab Food 4 All Highlights of 2015 + 30 Food Bloggers’ Most Popular Recipes
It’s time to look back at the Fab Food 4 All highlights of 2015, find out your top 10 recipes and also showcase 30 fellow food bloggers’ most popular recipes! Top 10 Most Viewed Recipes of 2015 1. Easy Blackberry & Apple Jam 2. Bacon & Potato Layer Bake 3. Bacon Roly Poly 4. Damson Jam…
Chocolate & Pistachio Mousse
Chocolate & Pistachio Mousse is delicious, intensely chocolaty mousse with added pistachio paste – a match made in heaven! At Christmas time (or whenever you are entertaining) you want as little stress and fuss in the kitchen as possible. So a great great dessert is one you can prepare ahead and just pull out of…
Peach, Tea and White Chocolate Traybake
Sponsored by Typhoo Just like the Jack Buchanan song, “Everything stops for tea” in our house, several times a day in fact. I think tea drinking is a very British thing and we are conditioned from childhood to be tea drinkers. Who hasn’t sung “I’m a little teapot” at nursery school? Then there are songs…
Salted Caramel Crunchie Ice Cream
Faced with a carton of double cream that was fast approaching its use by date I knew the best way of preserving it was to make ice cream,. That way we could eat it at our leisure rather than making a creamy dessert that would need to be finished the same day! So then came…
Peanut Butter & Golden Oreo Pudding + a Peanut Butter & Jelly Oreo S’more
Sponsored by Oreo Peanut Butter & Golden Oreo Pudding is delicious combination of Oreos, coffee, whisky and cream which combine to form this easy, yet impressive dessert. Perfect for a dinner party. I have received product from Oreo for this post. It is an entry to the Foodies100 Wonderfilled recipe challenge sponsored by Oreo, which…
July’s Credit Crunch Munch Roundup
It was my pleasure to host Credit Crunch Munch during July and I was blown away by the wonderful number of entries – 34 in total!I have found there is so much money to be saved just by changing the time I go shopping and in turn this has inspired so many recipes because there’s…
Banana & Cacao Milkshake
Today I’m sharing Banana & Cacao Milkshake. Having felt completely run down with chronic hay fever lately (I think this is the worst year I can remember) my get up and go has been somewhat flagging. So yesterday I looked around the kitchen for something to pick me up and spotted a bag of organic…
Apple & Marzipan Dumplings
Apple & Marzipan Dumplings are utterly delicious and the perfect autumnal dessert. Apples are stuffed with homemade marzipan and wrapped in puff pastry and decorated with puff pastry leaves. I have many fond childhood memories of Peter’s Tea Room and Baker’s Shop in Weybridge; all the cakes and delicacies are etched in my memory. One…
20 Fab Recipe Highlights for my 3rd Anniversary
I can’t believe that my blog is 3 years old today. I seem to have come such a long way since I started. When I posted my first recipe it was a very relaxed affair and I even over cooked my soup as I’d left it on the hob whilst on the school run –…