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Beef Chow Mein recipe I’m old school in thinking that steak is a bit of a treat; I feel the same about prawns and smoked salmon, it’s a generational thing. But now I’m a 52 year old woman and if I want to eat steak mid week I bloody well will. However, this Beef Chow…
Victoria Sponge Cake Jars Recipe March is a cake-tastic month for me; both of my nephews and my lovely Mum have their birthdays, so if you’ve got any spare cash, it would be a great time to buy shares in Stork and Tate and Lyle. With Mother’s Day pitching up this weekend too, I am…
Roasted Gnocchi with Sausage Traybake recipe Hooray, March is only minutes away, bringing with it slightly longer days and the promise of spring. I’m still in winter mode, under a furry blanket as I write and with a total lack of motivation to cook unexciting mid week meals. This Roasted Gnocchi with Sausage Traybake is…
Clementine and Cranberry Spritzer Let’s face it for the last Friday Cocktail for January, we need a frugal choice. Clementines are buy one get one free at the moment and I have more in my fruit bowl than you can shake a stick at. I also have a couple of post Christmas cartons of cranberry juice to…
One Bowl Sprinkle Cake Recipe We are a house on the edge. We are 24 hours from finding out if Ben is off to university and it’s tense. We are all taking the stance of what will be will be to reduce tension and, as he’s my first born, I will be so much happier…
Cauliflower Cheese Soup Recipe My endeavour to find comforting winter food which can be made without an oven continues. This weekend I have faced my biggest challenge thus far as I waved goodbye to my oven and the kitchen really is nothing but a shell. I blog in a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of fashion, whereby I rarely…
Cherry Cake Recipe There is something very satisfying about a loaf cake. Wonderful uniform slices of sponge, fat or thin, soft and delicious. Loaf cakes are some of my favourites – lemon drizzle, marble cake, banana loaf to name but a few. And now this Cherry Cake. It has a hint of almond flavour and…
