Ink-spots and grass-stains

Today I visited our local Community Fridge for the first time.  This is run by a local Community Enterprise, run by volunteers who are passi...

  Anybody here like cake? Hands up? Yes, me too. And this particular cake is a bit of a sweet-toothed 80s bright coloured throwback, to a ti...

Turn on the news these days and nearly every week you'll find some advice on what you should or should not eat - much of it contradi...

 Everybody loves the wonderful Great British Bake Off , right?  I do, and I had a plan to spend ten weeks setting myself my own Bake-Off c...

Everybody loves the Great British Bake Off , right? And, always up for a challenge, I'm going to endeavour, over the next ten weeks, t...

Yesterday on Facebook I saw a post from a friend saying that his wife had the Christmas cake in the oven, and we get to the sudden realisa...

Today I've made two more reversible play capes from "Growing Up Sew Liberated" by Meg McElwee .  I had a special request for t...

If you're a regular reader of this blog you'll know that during the month of February I was attempting to reduce my weekly shoppin...

I set myself a challenge for February t o try to do all my weekly grocery shopping for under £50 per week for my family of 4. We...

We tried this recipe for the first time today, and it was very successful.  It's from the brilliant "Kids First Cookbook: You ge...

Oh dear, where have I been again this week?  I've just had yet another of those chasing my tail without actually getting anything done, ...

This is the easiest recipe ever. All you need is some shop bought shortcrust pastry, some margerine, Marmite and grated cheese (I used ...

I think you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their spice racks.  I'll describe a couple and you'll see what I mean. Fi...

A totally delicious recipe that is fabulously easy to make. Ingredients (to serve 4):  3 chicken breasts (chopped into strips), 3 tbsp...

As usual I forgot to take photos, but last night we had some friends over for dinner, which was lovely and something I'd like to do more...

Mmmm, my mouth is watering just recalling this incredibly easy cake, most of which is in the cake tin in the pantry waiting for an opportu...

Big C handed me a little insert from The Guardian called "Quick and healthy breakfasts". Here's the list: grilled sourdou...

It's still cold, snowy, icy and beautiful out here.  What else is there to do but get on and do some baking?  After all the Christmas ...