Mince pies are sweet treats that are traditionally served at Christmas. Some people make their own mince meat to fill them, but I don't at the moment.  The main reason is that I can buy [...]

A memory came up on my FB from 2 years ago when we made short bread to take as a present to my great, great aunt, and for the neighbours who had been keeping an [...]

We made this for Mr S the other day as it is low in sugar but does not have any bananas in it (which he hates).  It is a healthy recipe that Mr S learned [...]

I am on a quest to eat more healthily. I especially want to cut out sugar. We have an abundance of foraged apples, and I bought some reduced over ripe bananas the other day which [...]

We are still using up the apples that we have foraged on a couple of occasions and have picked from our garden.  I have stored some wrapped in newspaper and preserved some by dehydrating, making [...]

I always make quiche when I have some left over pastry and the oven is on.  It is a good way of using up bits from the fridge as you can add any thing that [...]

We decided to go to the beach for the day and so I got up early and made some sausage rolls for the picnic. They are my grandson's favourite.  I always try to make sausage [...]

We have just started to visit a community fridge in a village nearby and this week we received lots of lemons and limes.  As we were having friends to dinner on the Sunday we decided [...]

We entertained friends at the weekend and had made a couple of things that only needed egg yolks.  I therefore needed to use up the egg whites so that they were not wasted.  I had [...]

I made these low sugar oat cookies by mistake as I was following a recipe by What Jessica Baked Next for hob nobs, and I forgot to put the syrup in.  These are therefore a [...]

We keep looking for imaginative ways to use our sour dough discard. I am also looking for ways to use up some of the 15p carrots that were discounted over Easter. Last week we made [...]

As you know we are on this journey of using and keeping our sour dough starter.  We were given our starter when we attended a sour dough bread course at Apron strings in Hedon. We [...]

The rhubarb is loving all of this rain and so I am harvesting it a lot recently. Already I have made rhubarb gin, rhubarb brownies and a couple of days ago we made rhubarb crumble [...]

There was an abundance of wild garlic this year and we preserve it to flavour our food all year, as well as using it for cooking in spring. Today I fancied making some cheese and [...]

Now that we have a starter we have started making sour dough regularly.  This is the recipe that we use to make sour dough bread.  It was the one we were given by a company [...]

It is Mother's Day at the weekend here in the UK. A nice idea for a present is to make an afternoon tea.  We used to make afternoon teas to earn extra money and one [...]

DATE CRUNCH We needed something sweet but I didn't want to put the oven on and bake.  I decided to make date crunch as we have supermarket own brand rice crispies that need eating up [...]

Tonight is the Winter Solstice which is a pagan celebration called Yule.  This is an ancient celebration of the shortest day, midwinter, and the return of lighter days and the sun. A yule log was [...]

Mr S made some cookies for a relative whilst I was away.  She loves biscuits but is having trouble biting anything hard at the moment, and so he made her these easy cookies that are [...]

My philosophy is that you do not need to spend a lot of money to make an occasion special.  It just takes effort and creativity.  We are holding a Halloween dinner for family at the [...]

Sometimes when Mr S is at work I have a busy day and do not feel like cooking him a meal for when he gets home.  On these days I will make him something quickly [...]

I am always looking for ways to save money or to visit the supermarket less.  During the pandemic I ran out of wholemeal bread flour and so I foraged some dock seeds and used that [...]

We eat a lot of Mediterranean food, and curries in our house, and since we have making all our own yoghurt (I use a slow cooker batch which works out really cheap), I have been [...]

I needed to make some room in my freezer the other day as I was making bread and it doesn't last as long as shop bought because it doesn't have the additives. I tend to [...]