Many people associate SPAM Chopped Pork and Ham with their school days when it was always served deep fryed and coated in batter. Well times have moved on and there are a whole host of more exciting ways to use this useful store cupboard staple. One such way is in this delicious SPAM Salad with Garlic…
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Courgette Soup
A frugal Courgette Soup flavoured with garlic, basil and Parmesan cheese – perfect as a starter or light lunch. I was recently asked if I had a Courgette Soup (aka zucchini) recipe on Twitter so after flicking through some old recipes of my mother’s I came up with this recipe. Back in the 70’s my…
Houmous with Peanut Butter
Houmous with Peanut Butter – a great alternative to traditional houmous and for those times when you don’t have any tahini paste Houmous, there seem to be an infinite number of ways of spelling it (hummus, hommus etc) and many more ways of preparing it! This Houmous with Peanut Butter came about after I stumbled…
A Big Night In (& an easy Salad Dressing)
MoneySupermarket recently launched a competition for bloggers to show just how much fun you can have staying in with the help of £50. They will also be choosing one random blogger to win £500! Nights out on the town aren’t cheap these days so I leapt at the chance to have my ideal night at…
Za’atar & Olive Focaccia
In honour of National Bread Week I am posting Za’atar & Olive Focaccia which I have been meaning to make ever since I saw Paul Hollywood making some on the Alan Tichmarsh show a couple of years ago! I was recently sent a box of goodies from Steenbergs one of which was za’atar (which is…
Food News – March 2013
Welcome to the first Food News which I hope to make a regular feature with news of all the latest products to hit the shelves and a review of what I thought of them. Here are some products in the order that I recieved them. Food Thoughts Cocoa First up was the 100% Fair Trade…
Raspberry Vinaigrette + Oxo Giveaway
As eagle eyed viewers of my blog will have noticed, I am a big fan of my Oxo Good Grips Garlic Press. Hence when I discovered Oxo were on Twitter I was only too keen to let them know and offered to review any of their products. I was kindly sent the Oxo Good Grips…
Olive Oil Chocolate Cake
Olive Oil Chocolate Cake is a moist chocolate cake sandwiched and decorated with a delicious chocolate fudge frosting! Best of all it’s fool proof and perfect as a birthday cake. As it was my husband’s birthday today it was a good excuse to raid my recipe box and find a Chocolate Cake recipe. This one…