This seriously delicious Slow Cooker Butternut Squash Risotto is an epiphany to me. Who knew you could make creamy, soft and unctuous risotto without stirring your arm off? Who knew you simply had to stick it all in there and flick that switch? I am genuinely shocked but most importantly I am sharing this shortcut…
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Mini Bakes and #BakingCrumbs February 2020
I am rather glad to see the back of dreary January truth be told. Unless it snows or the freezes the pants off everywhere I struggle to see any beauty in it. Maybe February can bring a little showiness to the seasonal party. And obviously when the weather outside is frightful the kitchen often beckons…
Meringues
I am very particular here. I want deliciously chewy meringues in the middle with a crisp crust on the outside. Nothing else is good enough…..nothing. To that end this meringues recipe has become one of my most favourite and most followed recipes ever. I came to Meringues semi late in life. I was at least…
Roast Butternut Squash Winter Salad.
This Roasted Butternut Squash Salad is packed full of flavour along with the Feta Cheese and caramelised Onions. Savoury sweet but salty this winter salad is so very good it will make healthy eating a big old pleasure. Roasted Butternut Squash and Feta Salad This New Year I am all about the new me. I…
Mincemeat Moments and #BakingCrumbs January 2020
A huge Happy New Year and big welcome to #BakingCrumbs January 2020. 2020!!!! It sounds strangely futuristic and rather strange doesn’t it?! I hope you have all had the most wonderful Christmas and eaten until you could eat no more. I love a bit of raging gluttony at Christmas. It reminds me of being pregnant….
Prodigious Chocolate Pavlova
This Chocolate Pavlova is a dessert of joy, love and calm. Crispy, chewy, soft, chocolatey meringue studded with dark chocolate chunks and topped with a thick blanket of cream and raspberries. It has been a success every time I have made it, such is it’s reliability. It can be dressed up or down to suit…
Easy Ginger Cake Loaf.
This Easy 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! This Ginger Cake recipe is dense, dark and wonderfully sticky. The ginger spice brings such a nostalgic flavour…
White Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake
This White Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake is absolutely and incredibly gorgeous. A bit of a fanfare but so well deserved here. It is creamy with white chocolate and sweet cream cheese, studded with raspberries and supported deliciously by a custard cream biscuit base. The whole thing just works baby. I would never choose white…
Easy Christmas Cookies
This Christmas Cookies recipe is delicious and such fun. Make them yourself or with your children for festive fabulousness. I usually make half the batch myself and then leave the other for my children to cut out and decorate with as much Christmas bling as they can shake a candy cane at. I have fallen…
Cheese And Biscuits – #BakingCrumbs December 2019
A huge welcome to #BakingCrumbs December 2019. The rain is falling and then falling some more and my Christmas decs are to go up this weekend. My children are already hyperactively excited and I am beginning to feel the usual Christmas pressure to produce a magical yule whilst keeping track of eleventy trillion christmas commitments,…