Sponsored by Simply Beef & Lamb One Pot Minced Beef Hotpot is packed full of root vegetables and peas with a hint of horseradish sauce – fabulous family comfort food! Today I’m very excited to share my One Pot Minced Beef Hotpot with you! I love comfort food and there’s nothing I like better than…
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Cream of Leek, Potato & Carrot Soup
Sponsored by Go Compare Cream of Leek, Potato & Carrot Soup is a healthy, family friendly soup packed full of nutrients. As a mum I am always trying to make sure my family gets their 5-a-day of fruit and vegetables and hopefully more. As adults we have no problem eating most fruits and vegetables (ok…
10 Healthy Recipes to get you motivated!
After the excesses of Christmas there is always much talk of diets, detox and New Year’s resolutions. I’m not really a fan of any of these things especially the term diet. To me diets were invented to sell books, classes etc and the problem with them is that as soon as people come off these…
Warm Rice & Quinoa Salad with Pan Fried Tofu
Warm Rice & Quinoa Salad with Pan Fried Tofu is so healthy and delicious. Packed full of red pepper, carrot, courgette & onion which is paired with crispy fried tofu, rice and quinoa, this tasty vegan dish is sure to be a hit! This recipe was inspired by a Savoury Rice Salad in my much…
Slow Cooked Pulled Lamb with White Wine & Root Vegetables
Slow Cooked Pulled Lamb with White Wine & Root Vegetables One of our favourite dishes is lamb shanks which I have never made at home but really ought to! With this in mind my husband suggested that rather than roasting the leg of lamb we had, why didn’t I slow cook it to replicate the…
Simple Pork Fried Rice
Simple Pork Fried Rice is a great way to use up leftover roast pork and vegetables from your salad drawer. A quick and tasty midweek meal that will please the whole family. Chinese New Year Chinese New Year falls on 31 January this year and marks the start of 15 days of celebration. This year…
Cream of Tomato & Basil Soup
Cream of Tomato & Basil Soup is so delicious and far better than tinned soup! I came up with my Cream of Tomato & Basil Soup after my husband had a yearning for a tin of Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup but the cupboard was bare. Within 20 or so minutes we were eating my…
Chicken Casserole & Cheesy Herb Dumplings
Chicken Casserole & Cheesy Herb Dumplings is a delicious and frugal family meal which is cooked in the slow cooker. What an inspiration Twitter is! I do love this form of social media as I have made some wonderful friends from it and have also engaged with some wonderful brands through it too! The other…
Coleslaw
I really wasn’t sure about blogging this as perhaps everyone knows how to make coleslaw. So maybe this post is more about reminding you how easy and cheap it is to make and far tastier than the stuff you can buy in the supermarket. There seem to be two types available, the one where the…
Leftover Winter Vegetable Soup
I made this Leftover Winter Vegetable Soup just before Christmas as I’d made a glazed gammon joint and therefore had lovely gammon stock and vegetables left over from it. I was also very aware that like most Brits I’d over bought on the sprout front and had a bag I needed to use up before…