Smoked Mackerel Pâté is super tasty and healthy and great as a spread or a dip! Made with fresh smoked mackerel, cream cheese, horseradish sauce and lemon juice, you’ll be making this again and again! I’m always trying to make sure my family gets a weekly dose or two of oily fish as they are said…
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Chocolate Orange Love Heart Biscuits
Today I’m sharing with you my Chocolate Orange Love Heart Biscuits. Valentine’s Day will soon be upon us so to mark the occasion I thought it would be nice to come up with a recipe that you can make to share with your loved one or the whole family. Better still get the kids involved…
Vegan Banana Cake – a healthy treat!
Vegan Banana Cake – a moist and delicious cake made with spelt flour, walnuts, raisins, spelt flour, oats and maple syrup. Today I’m sharing Vegan Banana Cakel After seeing a drawer full of over-ripe frozen bananas in the freezer the other day I decided that it was high time that I put them to use….
10 Bloggers’ Favourite Recipes
I recently thought it would be really interesting to find out from a few bloggers what they cooked most from their own blogs. This was a very tough question indeed! Of course we have many favourites but the recipes we tend to make the most are the quick and easy ones where you barely need…
Chocolate Cupcakes
Kids love Chocolate Cupcakes and this delicious recipe is simple enough for them to make! I think grown-ups will be all over them too! I don’t know about your children but whenever mine want to bake it invariably has to involve chocolate! Well I say that, my son has only ever baked one cake at…
Wholemeal Cheddar and Apple Chutney Soda Bread with Cider
Wholemeal Cheddar and Apple Chutney Soda Bread with Cider Finding myself with half a can of spare cider on Sunday morning (the other half had gone in the slow cooker) I didn’t want to waste it and drinking it wasn’t an option so I immediately thought of Soda Bread. In the past I’ve made a…
Gruyere & Caramelised Shallot Nests
Today I’m bringing you Gruyere & Caramelised Shallot Nests. It’s National Picnic Week this week so I decided I needed to make something fabulous for the occasion! Casting my mind back to when I was 21 and working in a professional upmarket caterers (where I’d often be serving the food we’d cooked during the day…
Rhubarb and Marzipan Cake
Rhubarb and Marzipan Cake with a hint of cinnamon and a flaked almond topping is fabulously moist and delicious! I was chatting to my mum recently when she told me about some Rhubarb and Marzipan Muffins her sister had been baking. Well there was a flavour combination I hadn’t thought about and having plenty of…
Quiche Lorraine with Slow Cooked Pulled Gammon
I have been using my slow cooker more and more lately and slow cooking gammon (check out 2 Ingredient Slow Cooker Pulled Gammon). The best thing about it is that there is always plenty of leftover gammon and so my Quiche Lorraine with Slow Cooked Pulled Gammon is the perfect dish to use some of…
Easter Chocolate Granola Cakes
Today I’m sharing my Easter Chocolate Granola Cakes with you! Feeling the urge to do something Eastery with a packet of chocolate mini eggs I had, I pondered upon what I should do with them. The old faithful cupcake sprang to mind but aware of the abundance of recipes for egg adorned Easter cupcakes I…