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Easy Banana Bread

slices of banana loaf cake piled on top of each other with a hand lifting a piece off. Bananas are in the background and a small white bowl of ground cinnamon

This is a brilliant and easy Banana Bread Loaf Cake recipe and is as good as I have ever had. It is delicious, really moist and so moreish it's dangerous. Gently spiced and buttery, it is one of my children's favourite bakes and one I don't feel so guilty about putting in their lunchboxes, the […]

Easter Mini Egg Chocolate Pavlova

chocolate mini egg pavlova on a white cake stand with a pink napkin around the base and with pink flowers showing in the top left hand side of the picture

Mini Egg Chocolate Pavlova is the perfect Easter dessert. I'm talking a big old chocolate pillowy cloud of crisp, chewy meringue, heavy with softly whipped cream and more chocolate mini eggs than you can shake an Easter twig at. Are you with me? Pavlova is surprisingly a really easy dessert, trust me. Once you enter […]

Easy Slow Cooker Thai Red Vegetarian Curry

slow cooker red thai curry vegetarian raw ingredients in a brown round serving dish sitting on a grey linen napkin with sliced halves of lime on each side with a plate of rice

Easy Slow Cooker Thai Red Vegetarian Curry is the absolute recipe business. It's super delicious, sooooo easy and my go to when I want to bring the fabulous bright flavours of of sun kissed shores to my slightly overcast kitchen in the UK. Reasons To Make This Recipe Vegetarian and Vegan Budget friendly Super tasty […]

Easy Slow Cooker Mac and Cheese

Mac and cheese in a white serving bowl with a metal spoon lifting some up on. A grey pin striped napkin sits half around the dish

Easy Slow Cooker Mac and Cheese is just the best comfort food. This is my U.K version, made without evaporated milk and without cream cheese but still super quick and easy to prepare. I'm talking cheesy, rib sticking and luxurious baby. Perfect for an easy midweek meal. Get in my slow cooker. This macaroni cheese […]

The Best Lemon Loaf Cake

lemon loaf cake sliced on a wooden chopping board with a knife lying to the fore and a lemon sliced in half lying to the side and another to the fore. Crumbs are scattered all around on the white work surface

The Best Lemon Loaf Cake. Really, really easy, made with oil to make it stay moist for ages and packed full of lemon flavour. It's an absolute keeper. The sort of loaf cake that is brilliant for cake sales and morning coffee, packed lunches and picnics. Cut a wonderfully sticky slab and everyone's smiling. This […]

Easy Slow Cooker Brisket with Gravy

slow cooker brisket with gravy in a cream enamel dish inlaid with black. Knives and forks lie to the side. Yorkshire puddings are piled in the background and a grey striped napkin wraps around the back of the serving dish

Slow Cooker Beef Brisket with Gravy is my favourite recipe for Sunday Lunch and completely melt in your mouth. It's incredibly delicious and makes the best tasting gravy I have ever tasted. It is as easy as it gets, another super important point for both of us.. Reasons to Love Beef Brisket I'm a huge […]

Slow Cooker Chicken Casserole with Leeks and Bacon

slow cooker chicken casserole with carrots, leeks and chicken in a white serving bowl on a grey and white striped napkin

Slow Cooker Chicken Casserole with Leeks and Bacon is absolutely delicious and super easy to throw together. We're talking dump and go comfort food at it's absolute best. A huge crowd pleaser and isn't that the best. I can't tell you how good it is. Why You'll Love This Recipe You don't need to brown […]

Slow Cooker Chinese Chicken Curry with Noodles

slow cooker chinese chicken curry with noodles and mange tout and baby sweetcorn in a piled heap in a white bowl with a grey linen napkin around the base and a small bowl of curry powder in the background

This recipe for Slow Cooker Chinese Chicken Curry with Noodles is a huge crowd pleaser. It's super easy and packed full of mild curry flavours and delicious five spice. This is yet another dump and go recipe for super easiness, no browning necessary. Hurrah! A brilliant Fakeaway dish too. A real tasty crowd pleaser with […]

Slow Cooker Beef and Ale Stew with Dumplings

slow cooker beef stew with dumplings in a cream slow cooker pot with a hand holding a serving spoon out of the gravy with a dumpling balanced on it

Slow Cooker Beef and Ale Stew with Dumplings is comfort food at it's best. Here in the U.K the colder weather lasts for much of the year and coming home to a warming stew waiting for you in the slow cooker is pretty much as good as it gets round here. Plus dumplings are the […]

The Easiest Slow Cooker Chicken Pasta

slow cooker chicken pasta in a white bowl with a fork and a small white dish full of grated parmesan cheese to the front. A cream napkin lies behind on a white work surface

This so Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Pasta is so quick to prepare and packed full of tender chicken and deliciously mellow cheesy garlic and creamy tomato flavours. It's a real family pleaser of a meal too. Here in the U.K the children tend to mostly like beige food or mine certainly do anyway. It genuinely […]

Mincemeat Cake Traybake

mincemeat cake with sprinkles on top of the white icing. Sprinkles are all around the bottom of the cake

Mincemeat Cake Traybake is super easy and full of Christmas flavours. It's moist, fruity and topped with a simple icing that's perfect to Christmas sprinkle the shizzle out of. Ideal to feed a crowd or bake for a cake sale. Let's face it Christmas Cake can be a bit of a long winded faff. And […]

Easy Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate

hot chocolate in a glass mug sat on a white small plate with mini marshmallows and grated chocolate chunks in the foreground. A long grater lies to the side and another glass tall mug of hot chocolate is in the background with a large glass jar of sugar right at the back

Easy Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate is the most fabulous recipe. It is incredibly quick to prep and made with real chocolate and cream, silky smooth and luxurious. Who doesn't want to ladle themselves a steaming mug and top with cream, marshmallows and chocolate sauce? Seriously? The ease of the slow cooker here is almost just […]

Easy Slow Cooker Savoury Mince

slow cooker savoury mince with vegetables in a seving dish on a grey napkin with knives and forks lying to the side and mashed potatoes on a plate in the background

Easy Slow Cooker Savoury Mince is one of the simplest family meals that I know. Extra vegetables added towards the end of cooking make it even more user friendly with all you need already in there swimming about in a delicious rich and beefy gravy. This recipe is all about the easy. It's a dump […]

Biscoff and Raspberry Croissant Pudding

biscoff croissant pudding in a large cream serving dish on a grey linen napkin

Biscoff and Raspberry Croissant Pudding is just the most delicious dessert and so easy to make it's practically an assembly job. Croissants baked in a biscoff custard with pockets of raspberries and chocolate chunks. Quite frankly it's a squeal from me Bob. I've been dreaming this beauty up for about 2 years, getting it wrong […]

Easy Thai Slow Cooker Peanut Chicken

slow cooker peanut chicken in a white serving dish with white rice. Peanuts and coriander is scattered at the front

Slow Cooker Peanut Chicken recipe is coming to you from my U.K kitchen so it's not strictly bona fide authentically Thai you understand but it still has those all important seriously delicious flavours. I'm talking salty soy, sweet chilli sauce, subtly spicy chilli, sour lime juice, and creamy peanut butter and coconut milk. Lush. This […]

Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff

beef stroganoff on tagliatelle in a white bowl on a white work surface with a grey napkin to the side with a knife and fork on top. There is parsley sprinkled on top. A small white bowl of paprika is at the top of the bowl

Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff is super simple, delicious and just packed with flavour. Although coming to you from my U.K kitchen it still has the classic flavours. Sour cream, paprika and mustard make this dish a real crowd pleaser and so easy to throw together in an instant for a fabulous family meal. Beef […]

Easy Slow Cooker Turkey Crown

slow cooker turkey crown with a slice cut from it on a serving platter with pigs in blankets surrounding it. Knives and forks are in the foreground and red and gold serving covered dish behind behind

This Easy Slow Cooker Turkey Crown recipe is my saviour this Christmas. A fool proof and easy way to get really juicy turkey every single time. No more worrying about dried out, shoe leather plus the added bonus of the oven being free for all your delicious sides. Ideal for Thanksgiving too. It's an absolute […]

Slow Cooker Beef Joint

slow cooker roast beef joint sliced on a white plate with gravy poured over it

This easy Slow Cooker Beef Joint is a melt in the mouth beef tried and tested family recipe at my house and always how I make my Sunday Roast. You can easily get ahead and it produces lots of incredible beef gravy. *Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the full printable recipe. […]

Quick & Easy Lemon Bars

lemon bars stacked on top of each other on a small white lipped plate with crumbs and icing sugar scattered around a lemon is visible in the background

This Quick and Easy Lemon Bars recipe is bright and zingy and now firmly one of my favourites. Although not a traditional UK bake I have firmly adopted it. It's really quick and simple to put together with a delicious buttery shortbread base and luscious lemon curd topping that I just can't stop thinking about. […]

Strawberry Muffins

strawberry muffins on a metal baking tray with sliced strawberries scattered and a muffin lying on their sides

These light and fluffy easy strawberry muffins are so easy to whip up and great for a breakfast treat, lunch box or food on the go. A hint of cinnamon, jam packed full of juicy strawberries with a crunchy, sugary top, seriously, what's not to like? They really are the prettiest things and just great […]

Quick Teriyaki Minced Beef with Noodles

chinese style minced beef with noodles and green veg in a white serving bowl with a cream napkin swirled around the bottom of the dish.A white plate is in the background with chopsticks resting on it and a jar of soy sauce to the side.

Quick Teriyaki Minced Beef with Noodles is exactly what you want to cook for a speedy midweek meal when time is tight and inclination tighter. An added bonus is it's easy, healthy and mucho delicious. This chinese style minced beef stir fry is ready in under 15 minutes and a real crowd pleaser for all […]

Mexican Loaded Wedges

loaded mexican wedges in a white rectangular serving dish. A green and white checked napkin is underneath . A fork with a wedge and stringy cheese is being pulled from the dish

This Mexican Loaded Wedges recipe is my new favourite family midweek meal. It is packed full of flavour has lots of vegetables and is really, really delicious. I top with grated cheddar cheese, sour cream and guacomole. Healthy comfort food Boom right there. Who knew? *Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the […]

Victoria Sponge Traybake

victoria sponge traybake on a white serving dish with british flag napkin below. A spoon ful of starwberry jam and a couple of strawberries are in the foreground with a knife laying to the fore on the other side

This recipe is for a large Victoria Sponge Traybake or Victoria Sandwich, whichever way you like to label this big old classic beauty. Perfect for feeding a crowd and despite being a traditional bake that's been around for ever,it can still run with the very best of them. Much like myself. This cake is such […]

Salmon Pasta Salad with Dill and Cucumber.

salmon pasta salad on a white plate sat on a pink napkin. A knife and fork sit to the side on an angle with a lemon half and a corner of another 2 plates of salmon pasta salad just visible in the top right corner

This easy Salmon Pasta Salad with Dill and Cucumber is one of my Summer favourites. Flakes of soft poached salmon are the star of the pasta show with finely chopped red pepper, cucumber and tomatoes all combined together with a delish lemony, creamy mayo dressing and a generous helping of dried dill. Served cold from […]

Quick and Easy Mini Egg Cookies

mini egg cookies on white baking paper with chocolate egg shards sprinkled around the cookies

These Mini Egg Cookies are really quick and easy to whip up. Incredibly delicious, they are soft and chewy too and jam packed full of chocolate eggs just as they should be. This is my chocolate chip cookie go to recipe pimped heavily up with cadbury mini eggs. I haven't skimped on purpose because at […]

Homemade Horse Treats Recipe

homemade horse treats piled high next to carrots and an apple.

Homemade Horse Treats are a labour of love, horsey love for which I'm afraid I'm a sucker and what better way to show that love than by baking a whole batch of these carroty beauties. Horse Treat Recipe These are super easy to make and the horses just can't get enough. I'm even tempted to […]

The Easiest Valentine Cookies

valentine cookies with heart shaped sprinkles scattered over them on a wire cooling rack pile on top of each other

These are the world's easiest Valentine Cookies. The butteriest of shortbread with the pinkest of heart shaped sprinkles. Valentine gorgeousness right here. I adore them. These golden beauties are made from my favourite shortbread recipe. They are always off the scale delicious and just so versatile. Dip them in chocolate or throw in some chocolate […]

10 Easy Sunday Lunch Recipes

sunday lunch recipes roast beef on a platter with roast potatoes, carrots and yorkshire puddings lying alongside

These easy Sunday lunch recipes rock my world. Not that they need to be eaten at lunch perhaps I should say Sunday dinner to be more accurate. These are the recipes that bring my family to the table with a skip in their step every time. What is a typical Sunday Lunch? The best meal […]

Easy Buttery Braised Red Cabbage

buttery red cabbage and apple in a white serving dish on a grey napkin and a large metal serving spoon resting on the side

This easy recipe for buttery braised red cabbage is just so delicious. It's appeal lies in it's sweet earthiness and buttery back notes. With the simple addition of only a few ingredients, the humble cabbage becomes a real star. One of my favourite sides evers. Plus it couldn't be easier. Believe it or not this […]

Easy No Churn Mincemeat Ice Cream

mincemeat ice cream in minature churns with a spoon of mincemeat on one side and a metal ice cream scoop on the other

This easy no churn Mincemeat Ice Cream is deliciously spiced with all things Christmas and silky smooth to boot. It's super easy to whip up and perfect with just about any dessert you can shake a festive candy cane at. With only a few ingredients you can create something very special indeed. A luxurious treat […]

Quick and Easy Chocolate Puff Pastry Christmas Tree

chocolate puff pastry christmas tree on a white surface sprinkled with icing sugar. A knife is to the side with a star cutter on a small white plate above right.

This Chocolate Puff Pastry Christmas Tree is not only festive it's downright delicious and lots of fun to make and eat. You can add whatever you like too to make it your own. Christmas is always about the baking at my house and this recipe is so good it has made it to the annual […]

Steamed Lemon Sponge Pudding

lemon sponge steamed pudding on a white lipped plate with a spoon of lemon curd in front and sliced lemons behind and a white ceramic lemon juicer.

Steamed Lemon Sponge Pudding is light, fluffy and delightfully lemony. It's a real crowd pleaser and perfect for stress free family entertaining. I make mine in the slow cooker for even more of an easier time. This steamed pudding is one of my favourite Sunday Lunch desserts ever. You can make it by steaming in […]

Easy Mincemeat Muffins

mincemeat muffins on an upturned baking tray on white paper. christmas sprinkles and a serving spoon filled with mincemeat in the foreground and christmas decorations at the back

Easy Mincemeat Muffins are packed full of traditional Christmas flavours and super simple to make. Perfect for cake sales and festive treats at the drop of a snowflake. A great way to use up any leftover mincemeat too. Decorate with a spoon of glace icing and sprinkles to complete the look or keep plain, either […]

Easy Steamed Chocolate Sponge Pudding

steamed chocolate sponge pudding on a white plate covered in chocolate sauce with a white jug in the foreground and a small white dish with chocolate chunks in it behind.

Steamed Chocolate Pudding is old fashioned but still absolutely sensational. The sponge is so light and the chocolate sauce is to die for, and there is puddles of it. If you are looking for a traditional pudding or dessert that is incredibly simple to rustle up then here she is. I make a milk chocolate […]

The Easiest Halloween Monster Chocolate Cookies

halloween monster mummy cookies on green cotton wool with plastic spiders crawling over them.

Halloween Monster Chocolate Cookies are an absolute must at our Halloween party table. Super easy and fun to make, I get the kids involved and they absolutely love it. These chocolate crinkle cookies could NOT be easier to make and so effective it feels spookily wrong. The Easiest Halloween Cookies Recipe I came across the […]

Cheese and Onion Scones

cheese and onion scones stacked two high on a wire cooling rack and grey napkin

These cheese and onion scones are beautifully savoury and full of amazing cheesy flavour. It's a super easy recipe and perfect for a snack or served alongside soup or salad. Literally every time I bake them I fall in cheesy love all over again. They are so, so good, you hear me? A light and […]

Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake

chocolate fudge cake to the left with a cake fork and small white bowl full of dark chocolate chunks to the fore. A jar of icing sugar stands behind.

Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake is a bake of such chocolatey fudginess I feel like my baking life is almost complete. Mere words cannot express how damp and dark it is and the chocolate buttercream is the stuff of memories. To find just the right bite to this fudge cake I recipe tested my baking pants […]

Chocolate Cracknell

chocolate cracknell on a white plate with a butter knife resting on the side and a bottle of milk behind

I love this Chocolate Cracknell recipe with an old school passion. It is so moreish I just can't get enough....ever. It's about as simple as it gets too but delivers in a way that takes you right back to the school canteen every time. " Is it break yet Miss?" Chocolate Cracknell Recipe Be warned […]

Apple Crumble Pie

apple crumble pie with a striped napkin and knife to the upper right and a rolling pin to the left

Apple Crumble Pie is INSANELY delicious. Seriously, seriously, seriously good. The pastry bottom, apple cinnamon filling and buttery crumble topping give you a very special dessert that is going to be a firm family favourite. I'm hopelessly in love already. Comfort food undoubtedly is at the heart of my cooking and this Apple Pie screams, […]

Easy Carrot Loaf Cake

carrot loaf cake sliced with a knife and another slice of cake on a white side place

Carrot Loaf Cake is one of my all time favourite cakes. There is just something about the moist spiced carroty middle paired with the gorgeous cream cheese icing that sends me someplace special and it will do the same for you too, I'm telling ya. It's impossible not to reach for a second slice. This […]

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