Tweet As you must surely know by now, I am very proud of the area in which I live, and consider myself very lucky to be surrounded by hills and and valleys, lakes and rivers. Whenever we drive back home after a spell away, the stretch of the M6 when the mountains really take shape […]
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A Very Northern Christmas Party
Tweet Following on from my Booths Christmas preview event post, I promised to give you some of the finer details in separate posts. I thought I’d start by giving you some pointers for hosting the perfect Christmas party. The range of party food on offer from Booths, supplied by both Gazebo Foods and Frank Dale, […]
New Term Lunch Ideas – help!
Tweet What a lovely SUMMER we have had. For the most part, my boys have been very good – naturally there have been days where I could happily have given them away to the highest bidder, but I think that is only natural when you have two boys, with similar interests and close together in age. […]
BBC Good Food Show Spring
Tweet Last Summer, for my birthday, my lovely husband whisked me off to Birmingham to visit the BBC Good Food Show , and we had a fabulous time. As a subscriber to BBC Good Food magazine, I am clearly a fan of cooking and I love creating something delicious for people I love, so when I […]
Good Food Show Spring
Tweet I am rather excited about my upcoming trip to Harrogate to visit the very first BBC Good Food Show Spring at the HIC. I have persuaded Mr to take me to Leeds the day before, staying in a lovely looking hotel, 42 The Calls, which is a fab treat in itself – it has a […]
Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday and A Recipe for Every Day
Tweet Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, a day for feasting on pancakes, laden with syrup, bacon, lemon, sugar, bananas, ice cream… whatever floats your boat. Although Pancake Day is a foodie festival the world over, the English name comes from the old English word Shrive which means “confess one’s sins”. It’s a day to ask for absolution, and […]
Competition Queen Tips
Tweet Those of youwho follow me on Twitter may notice that I enter a few competitions (sorry if I spam your feed) but I do actually win quite a few so I thought it was time to make a little list of my wins, and share my tactics (not that I enter tactically, really). I […]
Secret Leopard Cake
Tweet Youngest son has decided that snow leopards are his favourite thing ever. He is an animal lover in general but for some reason snow leopards have particularly caught his attention, to the point that he desperately wanted to adopt a snow leopard after seeing an advert in his National Geographic comic. The soft touch […]
Chocolatey Granotiffjack
Tweet I keep seeing recipes for baking mashups – “duffin” (doughnut/muffin hybrid -personally I think muffnut would be a better name), “cronut” (croissant/muffin) and even a “crookie”(croissant/cookie), so today, in the dual interests of experimentation and using up the Christmas leftovers, I’d like to introduce the “granotiffjack” – my reinvention of the granola bar, chocolate […]
Chocolate Chip Muffins For a Poorly Boy
Tweet When your seven year old gets sent home from school poorly, and misses out on his friend’s birthday cake because he can’t go to Beavers, what else can you do, but rustle up some chocolate chip muffins? I admit, I have a bit of a troubled relationship with muffins. I love the light, fluffy, […]