Recipes

Millionaire’s Shortbread

And here we are again, on the precipice of madness…..As I face the great abyss of the summer holidays I am unsure which is the greater fear…….losing my sanity or huge weight gain.I have already had a buttermilk pancake soused in maple syrup for breakfast………….I ask where is the shame?. I find it almost impossible…

Crispy Buttermilk Chicken.

Another half term in the bag. I emerged from the playground, blinking into the sunlight of the school drop off, alone, malnourished and discombobulated. I hadn’t managed make up or clean pants in a while and had resorted to a diet of crisps and wine for at least the last two days. But I had…

Panzanella

The summer is here, I’m not ready and neither is my lumpy beach body. As the heat rises and the sun bakes down, there is simply nowhere to hide. The choice very quickly becomes embarrassing under arm and fat roll sweatage or an expose of cellulite clad upper arms and thighs. “Oh my Gawd look…

Desperate Chicken and Mushroom Pie.

I cannot tell you how ready I am for the children to return their little asses to School. I am right in the middle of a peri menopausal breakdown and only wine and fat knacker plates of food are getting me through. It seems that every holiday brings me to my binging knees. I’m…

Placatory Pregnancy Apple Pie

I am a geriatric mum and when I first realised it I was genuinely horrified. My stomach flipped and I felt like I’d been walloped by a subversive Superhero. I had no idea that any woman above 35 years of age is classed as such and boy did it hurt. I spent the whole of…

Beer Fear Chocolate Birthday Cake

Sweet Mother of God, I got properly sh..faced at the weekend. The sort of drunk that is seriously unattractive and inappropriate in a lady of my years. I was in full old woman Lush mode. It was painfully public and involved Facetime with a friend and her husband and a phone call with another friend’s son,…

Subscribe

Skip links

Main navigation

by category

search

Breads

Sunday Lunches

Soups

Canapes/Starters

Mains

Puddings

Buns and Doughnuts

Cakes

Xmas

Halloween