Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake

I am taking part in this months Bake Together held each month by Abby Dodge, where each month you are invited to use a recipe from Abby but make our own changes to that recipe. The theme for the February bake together is Cheesecake!  I’m supposed to be on a diet, supposed to be watching [...]

Vegetarian Sausage Casserole

A really quick post today! This is a really easy one pan meal to make.  I look after 3 children and its rare to find a meal that all 3 of them like. This is one meal that mercifully they all like and there is no fuss when it’s served. When feeding children who doesn’t [...]

Banana Bread

I have made this recipe for years, it is adapted from the  Banana Bread recipe on page 33 of Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess, the first baking book I fell in love with. I have never used the alcohol in the recipe, I just didn’t fancy it, also I usually make this [...]

Healthy Green Soup

It’s that time of the year again when everyone is trying to be healthy! I know that’s rather boring but after the Christmas period when most of us over indulged and ate less than our share of healthier foods January is a time to nourish ourselves. It makes us feel better to do some good [...]

Happy New Year!

I’ve spent today belatedly trying to add some organisation to the end of the year! Anyone else out there doing that? I’ve tidied, cleaned out my kitchen utensil drawer, made some leek and potato soup and some of Cathy’s fabulous Salad in a jar Giardiniera which is vegetables in a blend of oil and vinegar, [...]

Seasons Eatings: Wild Rice and Cranberry salad

I have just taken part in Seasons Eatings, organised by the lovely Katie of Thyme for Cooking. Its a worldwide holiday gift exchange to spice up our holidays! The idea was that we sent a small gift of a herb, spice or food from where we live, with a recipe of how to use it [...]

Cinnamon Sugar, Chocolate Covered Almonds

I recently took part in a Secret Santa food gift swap and have been astounded at the generosity and imagination of the people taking part.  I am not really the most imaganitive of people but I am good at following rules so while the package got posted by the date specified it sadly wasnt the [...]

Cranberry and Orange Loaf

I’ve been guilty of only using cranberries for a sauce to go with turkey.  After Thanksgiving I had some left and rather than freezing them I wanted to use them differently. The Cranberry orange muffin at Starbucks was my inspiration but rather than make muffins, I wanted to make a loaf.  I found this recipe [...]

Cranberry Sauce

I’ve always had cranberry sauce with turkey, from the little portion in the tv dinners we grew up with to the solid lump that came out of a can, I couldn’t have turkey without it.  As a kid I loved it, I thought it was like having jam with your meal! The first time I [...]

Slivovitz (plum schnapps)

Tomorrow I will have been blogging for roughly a year, that is not something I ever thought I would hear myself say! I say roughly as I started a blog with posterous but didn’t get on with it so after just a few weeks on November 14th I moved over to WordPress.  Never in my [...]