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 […]
Roast Butternut Squash Winter Salad.
This Roasted Butternut Squash Salad is packed full of flavour along with 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 am […]
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 sticky Ginger Loaf Cake is the cake that I remember from my childhood ( Jamaican Ginger Cake) 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 recipe is dense, dark and wonderfully sticky. The ginger spice brings such a […]
White Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake
This easy no bake White Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake is absolutely and incredibly gorgeous. A bit of a fanfare but so well deserved here. It is creamy & velvety 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. Reasons […]
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 Biscuit Recipes
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, elf comedy poses and donkey outfits. Primary […]
Easy Slow Cooker Beef Casserole
This Slow Cooker Beef Casserole is packed full of vegetables and beef flavour. An all in one meal just perfect for midweek or a lazy weekend. Winter comfort food at it's best and a real family favourite. Slow Cooker Beef Casserole Recipe Slow Cooker Beef Casserole is a real winter warmer of a dish. Packed […]
Easy Christmas Cake Recipe
This is my Easy Christmas Cake recipe. It is a bung it all in recipe requiring no soaking of fruits or creaming of butter, merely a matter of bubbling together some ingredients before stirring in the others. What emerges from the oven some time later is a Christmas Cake of epic proportions and deliciousness. I […]
Easy Creamed Spinach
This creamed spinach is delicious, creamy and unctuous and a new favourite at our house. I've made it as a side for roasted meats and steaks and it always go down a spinach storm. It tastes like it took hours to create but it's ready in under half an hour.....Wallop. This creamed spinach recipe is […]
Slow Cooker Roast Chicken
Slow Cooker Roast Chicken is something that I cook almost every week. Cooking a whole chicken in a slow cooker is about as simple as it gets and I do like to keep it exactly that. Easy with a capital E. Tender and juicy chicken every time tasting exactly as if I had roasted it […]
Sticky Toffee Pudding
This Sticky Toffee Pudding is light, meldingly soft and just delicious. The caramel toffee sauce is pretty amazing too. An exceptional Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe if I do say so myself. What's more it is super easy and a huge crowd pleaser. My son grins from ear to ear when he knows it's on the […]
Halloween Brownies
These Halloween Brownies are really fun and super cute. Easy to assemble and packed full of chocolate they are always a real Halloween Party hit. I love/am obsessed with Halloween. Don't get me wrong I am not one of these die hards that gets dressed up. I leave that to the kids. However I adore […]
Halloween Pizza Ideas
All children love Pizza right? And all children love Halloween, double right?! These are the Halloween Pizza Ideas that I always bring to my party table. Super simple and lots of fun. Boo! There is a full recipe card at the bottom of this post with exact ingredients and instructions. How Do I Make Halloween […]
Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Curry
This Slow Cooker Chicken Curry is really simple and just delicious. Put all the ingredients in and flick the switch. Four hours later you have an incredible mid week meal or easy weekend fakeaway. Chicken Curry Wallop. Getting it all in the pot is as hardcore as it gets. Isn't that JUST what we want […]
Old Fashioned Rock Cakes
This is the Rock Cakes recipe of my childhood. They are light, sweet, terribly moreish and bring back a whole load of wonderful memories. These were the cakes that my Nan always had in her tin and even when they had a been in there a while and developed a bit of the taste of […]
Easy Celeriac Soup
Celeriac soup rocks....a lot. Mellow and earthy in flavour and perfectly Autumnal, it is super easy and healthy. A steaming bowl full of this on an Autumn day and you might as well be wearing an Aran jumper. . Celeriac is a vegetable that I have come to rather late in life and I am […]
Classic Coleslaw
This recipe for Coleslaw is super simple and super easy to put together. It is a classic coleslaw with an incredible creamy and mellow dressing that is to die for. This is a traditional coleslaw recipe and although simple it delivers all that you would want from a classic. I genuinely like it just the […]
4 Classy Caravan Recipes for Camping.
4 Incredibly Classy and Clever Recipes just great for caravanning, camping and cheering the summer on. Read on to discover how, with a little preparation and planning, you can eat like Kings whilst in the middle of absolutely nowhere........ As the Summer seemingly comes to an abrupt end, I find myself amazed that it […]
Easy Savoury Muffins
These easy savoury muffins are cheesy, garlicky with fluffy insides and crusty tops. They are incredibly simple to throw together and great for picnics, lunch boxes or just plain warm from the oven. In fact that is when they are at their most deadly. This recipe is so easy and accommodating, it is my blue […]
Easy Victoria Sponge
This is a simple and easy one mix large Victoria Sponge recipe. A no messing about, mix it and bake cake that is a guaranteed crowd pleaser and my go to whenever I need a sponge of epic, delicious proportions. Let's face it what's not to like about a Victoria Sponge? It's the David Attenborough […]
4 Retro Old Fashioned Bakes
As the weather here has become balmy and even scorchio at times, I have found it hard to even think about turning the oven on. It has been all about the salads. But such is the British weather the rain has returned and with much vigour. As we put away our flip flops and pull […]
Easy Chicken Caesar Salad
This is a classic Caesar Salad with crunchy garlic croutons, chargrilled chicken and a punchy but dreamy dressing. I kid you not it is to die for! I fell completely and utterly in love with it at first lick of the spoon. Super easy to throw together I am ecstatic to have it now up […]
Easy Chocolate Cake
This Easy Chocolate Cake recipe does exactly what it says on the tin. A simple and foolproof one bowl chocolate cake recipe that is absolutely delicious and perfect for all occasions. Not only can I have my cake, I can now so easily eat it. For a long time I have been looking for easy […]
Watermelon and Feta Salad
This Watermelon and Feta Salad is just incredible. Perfect for outdoor eating and bursting with fabulous summer flavours it refreshes with every sweet yet sharp bite. This Watermelon and Feta Salad is a real stunner. Not only is it very easy on the eye it also packs a flavour punch that is both gentle and […]
Panzanella
Traditional Panzanella Salad is a simple celebration of the best tomatoes, basil and olive oil you can bring to the table. Classic ingredients enthusiastically come together to make a sensational salad. My kind of summer eating. Traditional panzanella salad is born of an Italian thrifty desire to use up stale bread. It is historically a […]
Blondies
These Blondies are the vanilla version of a Brownie. Still dense, chewy and delicious but without the melted chocolate. More of a caramel/vanilla buttery vibe with chocolate chips. Think Spandau Ballet rather than Duran Duran. Blondies are so deliciously good and full of a buttery, toffee sweetness. Still with the exact same moistness and chewy […]
Easy Thai Salad
This Easy Thai Salad is absolutely sensational and one of my most tried and tested favourites. So simple and easy to prepare it belies it's big flavour punch from the thai salad dressing. Full of incredible Asian flavours, pimp it up or down to suit your hottest desires. It tastes decadent even if it is […]
Easy Lemon Drizzle Cake
In life there are Lemon Drizzle Cakes and then there is THIS Lemon Drizzle Cake recipe. I hate to poke my head above the parapet but this is a true declaration from the heart.....and the hips unfortunately. I am putty in it's lemony hands. I have absolutely fallen for this lemony loveliness in a cake […]
Easy Ham And Cheese Sliders
Ham and Cheese Sliders are quick and so easy for feeding a crowd. Seriously delicious and fun to boot. Everyone ALWAYS wants more. Great for hungry teenagers especially as there are no green bits in sight. The beautiful oozy cheddar and mozzarella cheese and the garlic butter elevate this sandwich to another level. One that […]
Coffee and Walnut Cake
This Coffee and Walnut Cake is heavenly. It looks as good as it tastes too. I make mine completely in the food processor it just couldn't be any easier. This classic combo of coffee and walnuts is perfect for so many occasions and I can never say no to a big, beautiful brown slice. I […]
Slow Cooker Gammon Joint
This Slow Cooker Gammon Joint is super easy and delicious. It delivers moist and tender ham every time. What's more it's as good hot as it is cold. A huge family favourite. My family as a whole absolutely love a Ham or Gammon Joint and that is a bit of a minor miracle in itself. […]
Lemon Posset
Here in the U.K this Lemon Posset is a classic & traditional delicious dessert that is, of course, super simple. Probably the easiest dessert out there. Velvety lemon cream so light and lemony you're transported to a lemon grove in Sorrento at the first teaspoon. Deliciously divine.. Lemon Posset is an ages old English dessert […]
Garlic Lemon Chicken
This is a fabulously easy Garlic Lemon Chicken recipe and one that delivers a moist and delicious chicken dish with hardly any effort at all. Winner Winner. I find this garlic lemon chicken dish absolutely perfect for a mid week meal as well as a fantastic weekend treat. Served with a salad, roasted new potatoes […]
Easy Shortbread Cookies
This is a super easy shortbread recipe. I don't even cream the butter and sugar first. A one bowl mix of three ingredients and you have a heavenly mouthful of crisp, buttery shortbread biscuit. Easy Shortbread This simple recipe is super easy and very forgiving. A perfect bake for the amateur cook. Plus the fact […]
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These bakery style peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are immense. Soft and yielding in the middle and gloriously crisp on the outer edge. Golden discs of nutty heaven. Packed full of nutty flavour and studded with chocolate chunks these babies had me at Pea. Incredibly moreish, please beware that they can become a small obsession. […]
Dauphinoise Potatoes
These Dauphinoise Potatoes are just to die for. A decadent potato gratin bathed in unctuous, garlicky cream, a dish of royalty and heavenly flavours. Extremely simple to put together and perfect with many dishes from roasted meats and steak to a simple green salad. Potato Dauphinoise done well are very hard to beat. They are […]
Quiche Lorraine
This easy Quiche Lorraine recipe is an absolute taste sensation. It is both easy and perfect for many an occasion. Made without cream using cream cheese instead it's a game changer. Served warm, a slice of cheesy quiche is a very, very delicious thing. This recipe has the perfect balance between the salty and the […]
4 Brilliant Soups and Stew Recipes
Feeling in need of some delicious comfort food amidst all this inclement weather? Read on to try your hand at these 4 delicious Soups and Stews. Great for warming your cockles. Find that comfy chair, undo your bra (if you’re wearing one), pour your favourite tipple and grab your favourite nibble. This is THE place […]
The Best Apple Crumble.
This is a divine Apple Crumble recipe with just the best nubbly and crunchy crumble topping. It is a great dessert for feeding a crowd and can be made ahead and reheated for easy entertaining. Plus it makes your kitchen smell absolutely heavenly. This is an old fashioned traditional Apple Crumble recipe without oats. I […]