I recently stumbled upon a recipe for baked mac & cheese over at Not Exactly Bento With kind permission from Jenn at NEB, I’m sharing my version of this amazing recipe with you! This dish will serve 4 to 6 people as a side dish (or if your family are hungry hippos like mine, [...]
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Baked Mac and Cheese
Posted in food, recipe on July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Jam season!
Posted in food, garden on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
And so jam season begins. My blackcurrant bush yielded 5lbs of berries. We have picked these and made blackcurrant jelly! I didn’t follow an exact recipe, I simply washed and stewed the fruit in 500mls of water and then passed the pulp through a jelly bag. To the syrup I added one kilo bag [...]
Thai Green Curry
Posted in food, recipe on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Claire’s recipe for Thai Green Curry Serves 4 (or 2 very hungry people!) 4 chicken breasts Thai Green Curry Paste ( I used Sainsburys own brand) Fresh coriander 3 limes squeezed 2 sticks of lemon grass chopped in half sugar – 1 tablespoon 4 red or green chillies chopped garlic 2 cloves grated [...]
Banana and Walnut Loaf
Posted in baking, food, recipe on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a recipe from my Mum for a yummy tea time treat, I hope you enjoy it!! Banana and Walnut Loaf 4 oz margarine 6 oz light brown sugar 2 ripe bananas 2 eggs 8 oz self raising flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 oz chopped walnuts 2 tablespoons milk (if needed) Cream the [...]
White Chocolate and Raspberry Muffins
Posted in baking, food, recipe on March 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A delicious treat to have in the afternoon with a cuppa! Ingredients 275g plain flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 115 grammes caster sugar 1 egg 250 ml buttermilk 4 tablespoons olive oil 150 grammes raspberries (I use frozen raspberries, easier to get hold of and cheaper too!) Chocolate chunks (white or milk ) as [...]
Oatmeal and Raisin Cookies – A recipe revisited
Posted in food on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m revisiting an old recipe of mine – Oatmeal and Raisin Cookies Twist the recipe slightly to cut back on raisins and add white chocolate chips instead oh and use 1 teaspoon vanilla essence instead of cinnamon. Mmmmmmmm!
Marmalade!
Posted in food on January 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just finished my first attempt at marmalade. I hope it turns out, it tastes good! (well the bit I scraped out of the pot when I had finished tasted ok) 12 lovely jars of golden-ness Oh by the way I used Pam Corbins recipe from the River Cottage Preserves handbook. So far I haven’t [...]
A M.I.Y (make it yourself) day
Posted in food on November 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I’m in a make something from scratch mood today. So far I’ve 2 new jars of lemon curd made to add to the stock pile of preserves for Christmas and there’s yoghurt on the go too I stumbled on a lovely recipe using haw berries over on Nip it in the Bud so I’ve just [...]
Pavlova – a recipe and how not to make it.
Posted in food, recipe on September 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So you’ve whisked your three egg whites to stiff peaks and then you whipped some more to get your six ounces of sugar dissolved in. You whipped and whipped until those egg whites were stiff and glossy. Next you carefully folded in a half teaspoon of cornflour, a half teaspoon of vanilla essence and a [...]
All homemade…….
Posted in food on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had a lovely snack this evening. All home made and very tasty too! Mums soda bread Home grown tomatoes from my greenhouse Home made mayonnaise, my first ever try!
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