Strawberry Lemonade Have lemons, make lemonade. I had bought a lot of lemons, and they needed to be used, but I had no inclination to do anything complicated, which in this case meant turning on the oven. My sidekick suggested lemonade and counted out five lemons, as he remembered that’s…
Brown Sugar Macaroons – A treat with tea, and both dairy and gluten free I hate waste and another carbonara dinner meant another egg white seeking a purpose in life. While my meringue recipe is delicious, I just wasn’t in the humour for meringues tonight. My nightly flick through my cookbooks paid off and…
The cutting I have of this recipe calls them “Sweetcorn Fritters” so I guess that’s what they are, but in our house we call them what we think they are, which is Sweetcorn Pancakes. To me fritters are what you get the Chinese restaurant, deep fried fruit in batter, and…
Toblerone Cheesecake I’ve always been a Toblerone fan. When I was a child Toblerone was a luxury, the reserve of Easter Eggs and Duty Free. I have happy memories of eating Toblerone on another continent, jet lagged, with no food available thanks to a late flight and the only edible…
This isn’t a recipe, more a “what we did and ate”. Banana Mushies came about by accident. It started with talk of bananas and then cashew nuts came up and suddenly we had a bowl full of yum right there. A Mushie is a nice sweet mini-meal snack or treat…
My Mammy is a great woman for dinners. She reared us all on good homecooked food and whatever the day’s events when we were small one thing was sure, there would always be a hot dinner in the evening, no matter what. Mam didn’t work outside the home when I…
I have a thing about flapjacks. Even though they are laden with sugar and are sticky and full of butter I still consider them a healthy addition to the boys’ lunchboxes. Must be the porridge, sure the fibre must do some good. My three and a half year old is…
It’s not often that the egg whites are the leftovers, but after a carbonara dinner I was left with two lonely whites in a mug begging to be used. I’m a pavlova veteran but 2 egg whites wouldn’t make much of a pavlova so I thought of their close family…
My Granny Murray was my Mam’s Mam, a fantastic lady who passed away early last year. We lived 50 miles of windy country roads from her house so a trip to Granny Murray’s was always an adventure, and since she didn’t see us all that often she would take the…
Today was a day for comfort food, the weather, the week that was and the mood all sent me craving something sticky and sweet, but savoury too. I remembered two chicken breasts that have been neglected in the fridge all week and the inspiration came for a quick dish that…
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