Yesterday I took the day off from riding my white charger into cyber space to concentrate on the serious business of being mummy to a birthday girl and engaging in some much over-due housework – more like slum clearance actually!!
For many years the mantra that I have envoked over housework has been ‘a tidy house [...]
Archive for the ‘Recipes’ Category
Chocolate Birthday Cake for all…
Posted in Recipes, tagged birthday, cake, choclate, chocolate icing, easy, food, recipe on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Make friends – bake Eccles cakes!
Posted in Recipes, tagged baking, british, cakes, currants, eccles cakes, family, food, home baking, quick and easy, Recipes on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baking is truly one of the best ways I know of making friends and influencing people – it is not only men who are seduced by their stomachs, but in fact almost everyone you and I know loves a home made cake and it doesn’t have to be fancy or time consuming.
Eccles cakes are my [...]
Roasted vegetable and tomato soup
Posted in Recipes, tagged family, food, pumpkin, rain, recipe, roasted vegetable, soup, tinned tomatoes, vegetable on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Rain, rain, go to Spain and never show your face again!”
Well, that is how I feel this morning as I have fairly well swum to school with my offspring (number one son went solo, with a flea in his ear and no coat on account of having lost his, again!). We did however book last [...]
Chocolate Pumpkin Cake
Posted in Recipes, tagged baking, cake, chocolate, chocolate icing, courgette cake, family, food, pumpkin, riverford organics, vegetables on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This one is for you Rosie – grower of fantastically large pumpkins – as I know you are looking for inspiration as to what to do with the other 2 that you have!!
It is a variation on the Chocolate Courgette Cake that Riverford Organics have on their recipe pages, and is all the better in [...]
Parties and Pumpkins
Posted in General ramblings, Recipes, Shop news!, tagged cheese and chutney pumpkin loaf, children, creative parties, family, food, Heather Bailey's Trash Ties, jewellery making parties, Jewellery Parties, pumpkin bread, pumpkin recipes, Recipes, Sarah Hough Paper, teens, Trash Ties on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a run-away half term break it has been! – 2 jewellery parties, an autumn charity fair, visiting family and a low key but great fun pumpkin party as a cosy alternative to all the nastiness on the streets and doors at this time of year. Lots of delicious pumpkinny food; roasted with sausages and [...]
Chocolate Fridge Cake
Posted in Recipes, tagged baking, broken biscuits, chocolate fridge cake, family, food, no bake baking, Recipes on October 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Bloggers block has struck again, but the curse must be broken and what will do it this time is that I know my friend Gill will ask me today, for the umpteenth time, for my Famous Chocolate Fridge Cake recipe. I will tell her for the same umpteenth time that I WILL give it to [...]
Tarts of one sort and another………….
Posted in Recipes, tagged blueberries, easy, food, hope and greenwood, quick, quick and easy, raspberries, Recipes, shortbread, strawberries, summer fruits, tart on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is no reason why Miss Hope (of Hope and Greenwood fame) should be the only tart on this blog!!!
I don’t have her sauce, but am able to offer you lovely readers a quick and easy Summer Fruits Tart for you to wow your guests with, next time a generous pudding is required. This one [...]
Quick and easy after work curry
Posted in Recipes, tagged curry, family, food, quick and easy, Recipes, red onions, spinach, swiss chard, tomatoes on September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A genuinely original recipe that I made up myself yesterday that was truly delicious (if I say so myself) and which it is my pleasure to share with you. I hope that for one day at least if will answer for you the perennial question, “what shall we have for dinner tonight?”
The inspiration came as [...]
Lemon curd
Posted in Recipes, tagged Add new tag, family, food, lemon, lemon curd, Recipes on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My revolting son came home from his new senior school yesterday saying, “Mum, Mum, I’ve got a recipe for artificial sick – do you want to know it?”. Needless (I hope) to say my answer was, “Absolutely not, thank you”, and to his credit he refrained from telling me anyway as I’m sure he was [...]
Vegetable Biryani
Posted in Recipes, tagged biryani, curry, food, Recipes, vegetarian on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I include the recipe for the dinner we enjoyed this evening, mainly because for once there was an actual recipe, and for once I actually followed it, but also to dispel the illusion that I live entirely on cake and jam (which is an easy conclusion for a casual reader of this blog to come [...]
