Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup with basil is perfect for using up a glut of overripe tomatoes. It’s quick and easy to prepare with just 5 ingredients. 2 whole bulbs of roasted garlic give this soup a beautiful buttery and mellow garlic flavour. How did Roasted Tomato & Garlic Soup come about? This was my…
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Easy Seedless Blackberry Jam (small batch) – Prize Winning!
Easy Seedless Blackberry Jam (aka Seedless Bramble Jam) is a delicious small batch jam made with just 3 ingredients: blackberries, granulated sugar, freshly squeezed lemon juice and no pectin. It has a concentrated blackberry flavour with a delicious tang provided by the lemon juice which complements it beautifully. How did this Easy Seedless Blackberry Jam…
Watermelon Jam (no pectin recipe) – 2 ways!
This delicious Watermelon Jam recipe is made without pectin and is so beautiful and summery with its vibrant pink colour! You can make it 2 ways, plain or with white rum! I’m so excited to bring you this delicious, quick and easy, no pectin Watermelon Jam recipe which can be made 2 ways, with or…
Easy No Bake Salted Caramel Cheesecake with video!
This delicious Easy No Bake Salted Caramel Cheesecake is made with a Lotus Biscoff Biscuit (Speculoos Biscuit) base and topped with a creamy vanilla-infused cream cheese which is spiked with 2 layers of ready-made salted caramel spread. A fuss-free, make-ahead showstopper that’s perfect for entertaining. My Easy No Bake Salted Caramel Cheesecake was born out…
Wholemeal Apple Hot Cross Buns
Wholemeal Apple Hot Cross Buns are a healthier Easter teatime treat with added chunks of apple, currants and mixed spice! Readers come back and make these year on year they’re so good! NB: I originally posted this recipe in April 2014 and last year took some more photos which I didn’t get round to adding….
Best Baked Feta Pasta Recipe
My Best Baked Feta Pasta Recipe is inspired by the viral Feta Bakes on TikTok. I’ve come up with my own delicious version which includes cherry plum tomatoes, red bell pepper and capers which take it to the next level of deliciousness! I’m not a great fan of bandwagons but having joined TikTok recently, I…
Broccoli & Cheddar Soup
Broccoli & Cheddar Soup is a nutritious and delicious vegetarian soup the whole family will love and easily adapted to be vegan (see recipe). As well as broccoli and Cheddar cheese, ingredients also include celery, carrot, onion and potato so it’s great for a fridge clear out! My family raved about my creamy Broccoli…
Easy Crab Apple Jelly + video tutorial!
Easy Crab Apple Jelly is sweet, tangy and delicious, the perfect way to preserve crab apples! It doesn’t require a jelly bag, stand, upturned stool or kitchen doorknob, just a colander and a pair of tights, muslin or tea towel set over a pan. It couldn’t be easier! In early September I went off looking…
Mixed Tomato Chutney
Mixed Tomato Chutney is an utterly delicious way to preserve ripe and green cherry tomatoes. It has a wonderful chilli kick which is contrasted with the sweetness of sultanas and Muscovado sugar. It’s the best tomato chutney recipe I’ve ever tasted! When I originally made this recipe back in 2013 I’d been gifted packets of…
Sloe & Apple Jam + video & pitting hacks!
My Sloe & Apple Jam recipe is made with just 3 ingredients and no pectin or jam sugar. Wonderfully tart yet sweet, sloes and apples make the perfect pairing in this exquisite jam. Recently I went foraging for elderberries to a location I’d been told about that also had sloes. I didn’t find any elderberries…