Sorry I haven't posted recently. Life and health take over sometimes. I thought that I should put our easy Yorkshire pudding recipe on here as we are proud to come from Yorkshire. It used to [...]

I am trying to eat more beetroot. I know it is good for me, especially  to lower blood pressure. However, I hate beetroot. It tastes like mud to me!  Usually I make a beetroot chocolate [...]

This is a recipe that I have made for over 50 years. I think it might have originally been from a Margarette Pattern baking book for kids. I even made it in my O'level 'home [...]

Christmas shepherds pie is a great meal to make on Boxing day, or later if you have frozen the leftovers from your Christmas meal. There are no quantaties as you use what you have. We [...]

I have seen these fir cone truffles  being made on the internet for a number of years now. This Christmas it was times to give them a try for our family meal. The truffle recipe [...]

Bone broth is so good for you. It is full of collagen which apparently helps keep the skin elastic and hold back aging. I could definitely do with some of that. Another bonus is that [...]

We had our Christmas early this weekend. My children have to work Christmas day, or visit inlaws. For a change we decided to serve fish as in some countries this is the traditional Christmas food. [...]

I try to give my grandson as little ultra processed food as possible. He loves chocolate cereal, though. I therefore decided to make some of my own UPF free chocolate cereal. Making my own also [...]

Mr S loves somosas, but they are expensive to buy. However they are easy to make if you have some filo pastry. My daughter gave me half a packet the other day which was left [...]

Nothing says Christmas like mince pies. Not everyone has the right kitchen equipment to make individual mince pies, though. I was in a hurry today as I was trying to have the oven on for [...]

Yesterday I made pumpkin puree waffles for my grandson. We still have pumpkins left over from Halloween and I am trying not to waste them. I don't really life the taste of pumpkin. Pumpkin puree [...]

My daughter came round to lunch unexpectedly with my grandson  and so I had to stretch the meat that I had. I had meant to make steaklets for the two us, but instead made the [...]

I enjoyed making the chocolate pengun lollies the other day and  so decided to have a go at another chocolate animal lolly. I still had white chocolate buttons left. Ingredients Large white chocolate buttons. Small [...]

Usually I make my pizza crust with yoghurt and flour. Today I made it with pumpkin puree and flour. I had made the pumpkin puree in the slow cooker. A few dessert spoonfuls of pumpkin [...]

I have 4 pumpkins stored. Recently I have been researching all of the different things that you can make with pumpkin puree and so I thought I would make some. I didn't want to put [...]

Making presents doesn't have to cost a lot of money, and you don't  have to be an expert. Today I made some Christmas chocolate lollies with my grandson. I will make some more nearer Christmas [...]

A few people have asked me about my quick, easy bread recipe, recently.  I thought that I would repost it today. It is so easy and quick to make and doesn't need knocking back and [...]

My grandson loves gingerbread men. They are so expensive at the bakery and so I did a baking session with him last week. This is a brilliant recipe as it keeps it's shape when baked. [...]

Mr S loves apple Danish pastries but rarely gets them. They are expensive. Sometimes we find some at the waste food project when we visit during winter. We had friends coming to breakfast and so [...]

When I was younger, if we had a bad stomach, a cornflour pudding was made. I loved it and would pretend to have a bad stomach often. 😉 In reality I don't think it helped, [...]

Lasagne is a staple for us. I make it every other month. I used to always make it with meat bulked out with vegetable and lentils. As meat doubled in price over the last few [...]

We have had the Autumn Equinox The days will be getting shorter, and we have entered  a new cycle. Our temperatures are certainly falling and so we felt like comfort food last week. I had [...]

I am slowly going through my cupboards and using up what I have in. We bought some biscoff spread look alike last year to ripple through ice cream, but forgot about it. I found it [...]

I don't like mayonaise but like the thought of eating a slaw. We were having family around for a meal and I wanted to make falafels in wraps and needed something else to put in [...]