Stress free and delicious recipes for the filling of bellies.
Like most things, I have come late in life to the Slow Cooker but I am absolutely revelling in it’s many fabulous foodie facets. I’m like someone who married very young and has just got divorced at 30. I can’t get enough of it and this recipe for a Slow Cooker Beef Joint has knocked…
This recipe for White Chocolate and Raspberry Roulade is one of those recipes that I have been meaning to make but just never got round to. I am completely bowled over by it. It is sensational. By their very good looks Roulades are a bit of a centre piece dessert so perfect for a special occasion…
A BIG CHRISTMAS WELCOME TO ALL YOU #BAKINGCRUMBS FOLLOWERS/READERS AND BAKERS. It is my absolute pleasure to host December 2018 Baking Crumbs. Most appropriately this is my virgin linky and I am definitely filled with the Baking Spirit. I have had an absolute Xmas ball reading all the linked up entries and am very excited…
I came upon this Bang Bang Chicken with Noodles dish unexpectedly a couple of weeks ago and it was just DELICIOUS. It blew my culinary socks off to be honest and I knew I would have to find out how to make it straight away whilst I could still recall all the different flavours. As…
These Double Chocolate Chip Muffins are the real thing. Full to the muffin top with chocolate these babies are so damn good. I made them without expectation and I cannot express how uplifted I was by the end of it all. Good Chocolate Cake is such a many splendid thing. I feel exactly the same…
For a long time I have been looking for a No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake recipe. I wanted a real strawberry hit with a creamy background and here she so is cheesecake people. Beautifully full of strawberries and cream, one mouthful and I swear Tim Henman is sitting opposite me. Make it and weep. But first…
I suddenly realised a couple of weeks ago that I did not have a s.it hot Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe up my culinary sleeve. What an outrageous oversight. In fact I come up short generally in the biscuit/cookie department. My passion has until now, lain mostly in the sticky bun category. Although I have always…
This Danish Pastry Dough is something that I have had up my culinary sleeve for the last few years. It is courtesy of Nigella and How to Be a Domestic Goddess and it is outstanding, both in it’s deliciousness and in it’s ability to effectively cut out the classic toil and bother of traditional danish…
These Halloween Cookies are just sooooo delicious and lots of Halloween fun. Rather unbelievably it was my first foray into Peanut Butter Cookies but I fell in love with them completely and utterly at first crunch. They were one of the most yummy cookies I had ever eaten and so simple anyone could make…
This Sausage Bake is absolutely delicious and completely make ahead for an easy and fabulous midweek tea. It is positively dreamy. I love to serve it with frozen petit pois or tender stem broccoli. The sweetness of them is just perfect with the meaty gravy. Not to mention hardly any bother at all. But…
This Sticky Ginger Cake is the cake that I remember from my childhood and I have been searching for it forever. I rather came upon it by accident which made it taste, I’m sure, even better! But first some melancholy…… Everything I have attempted to do this week has gone T.Ts and I mean T.Ts….
This is the best moist Chocolate Cake I have ever made. A bold but true statement I knows. It took me rather unawares………..I love researching for this blog. I love pouring over cook books, discovering simple delicious recipes and I LOVE eating all my experiments of course, well most of them………. I only write the…
Apple Muffins. This recipe for stewed apple and buttermilk muffins has once more lifted my jaded soul. I have feasted on these warm for breakfast as well as sending my children to school with them in their lunch boxes……… Kiss it………. They are DIVINE. What’s more I didn’t expect them to be so good….
Chocolate Shortbread. I have nostalgic childhood memories of deliciously chunky Chocolate Shortbread from my school days. Sometimes it was covered in mint custard and sometimes served alone cut into triangles and sprinkled in sugar. Either way it was just lush. This recipe brings it back into your grown up home albeit sans mint custard. I…
This incredible Apple Crumble Cake is a most welcome addition to my table this week. As Autumn begins to wave at us from the back row my apple trees are weighty with beautiful Bramleys. So much so that I am almost swimming in apples and feel heavily the responsibility of putting them quickly to the…
Delicious Stewed Apples. This recipe for Stewed Apples is comfort food in a big old saucepan. I make a vat of it and freeze it in batches to use for crumbles, pies, pancakes and pastries. It is just delicious and oh so versatile. Perfect for the Autumn weather that is just beginning to come to…
This recipe for Pain au Chocolat or Chocolate Croissant is both simple and incredibly delicious. I have found that all the faff involved is indeed worth it for one of the best breakfasts I know, not to mention the huge amount of smugness that go with baking a big batch. My job here is to…
Easy Cheese and Onion Quiche But first some…….. This Incredible Cheese and Onion Quiche is such a welcome addition to my week. I am finding the school holidays EXTREMELY trying and am in need of comfort food in large amounts and of the highest order…….It’s either this or setting up a tent outside Greggs ……..
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Traybakes. Carrot Traybake This post for Traybakes is a post most close to my heart. They are a family mainstay and the easiest way to bake for a larger crowd. Just so easy and down to earth. Talking of which…. But first…..some exhaustion I look like a right dog at…
Nutella Cheesecake This Nutella Cheesecake is absolutely DIVINE. And I mean it. I have tried others and boastfully perhaps, I think this recipe is the best of all. I have found that as gorgeous as Nutella is it can be a little too rich in a cheesecake but this baby is just right….
Hummus Recipe For a long time I did not have a clue about the meaning or ingredients of Hummus. I knew I liked it a lot but only recently have I felt an urge to make my own. It is a thick paste or spread made from ground chickpeas and sesame seeds, olive oil, lemon,…
