The title lies and the lawyer and perfectionist in me feels bound to come clean. Despite being called a traybake there is absolutely no baking involved in this recipe, it’s a melt and mix job. Better still it’s a “melt it all together recipe” with no precariously positioned bowls on…
I’m not really a batchcooking fan, despite the fact that I do it a lot. I’ve blogged about it before and shared my methods here. It’s tiring, and I always make my plans too ambitious and think that I will do enough to feed us for months, but with lots…
Easy Key Lime and Chocolate Pie The first time I made this dessert was when I invited my American friend and her family over for a 4th July barbecue and was looking for a very American but also very easy dessert to eat after our meat fest. I found Nigella’s…
I love cookies but sometimes I get lazy about taking the mixer out of the press and lugging it the whole way to the counter, and then having to wrestle the bowl from the boys before they lick the coating off it. My laziness is really getting a lot of…
Sometimes you just need dinner in a hurry, so here’s a quick and tasty pasta dish enjoyed by all around our table. Pancetta is one of my favourite quick dinner ingredients as it’s full of flavour, cooks quickly, doesn’t require chopping and keeps in the fridge for a few weeks.…
I chuckle to myself when I see magazine articles about “Fun ways to get your kids to eat vegetables”. In my experience, limited to two boys aged almost 4 and almost 2, if a child doesn’t want to eat something no amount of fun or forcing will make them. They’re…
We rarely eat brunch or cooked breakfasts, as the boys are up early and demanding Weetabix as soon as they get downstairs. However, on a rainy bank holiday Sunday, with a restaurant dinner booked for later and spurred on by people tweeting delicious “this is what I am having for…
Quick Dinner: Pancetta and Leek Pasta On a weekday evening, when I’ve forgotten to take something from the freezer and I need to get dinner on the table fast I tend to turn to pasta and try to throw something together. Pancetta Cubes are my favourite “quick fix” ingredient to…
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…
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