A charming food blog with recipes and other ramblings which may or may not be of interest to you
Minced Beef Ramen recipe Bloody hell it’s back to school time again already. The lovely quiet summer streets are filling up again and the traffic’s backing up. For many, not me as I’m ancient and my boys are grown ups, it’s time to start thinking about off/back to uni meals. And if George’s diet at…
Mango Coconut Overnight Oats recipe I’ve been a bit slow to blog recently; I’m giving myself a bit of a break over the summer months whilst we’ve been drinking too many Aperols and catching up with friends. All the ‘catching up’ has been catching up with me, so I’ve been making these Mango and Coconut…
One Pot Chicken Satay Noodles recipe I won’t lie, I very nearly didn’t create a new recipe this week. It’s bloody roasting in London, I had an exhausting weekend and I just couldn’t haul my arse away from watching tennis at the Olympics. You will be pleased to see, I did find some motivation and…
Pasta with Salmon and Spinach Recipe And we’re off. George’s GCSE’s have started in earnest and the poor bastard has one everyday for the next month, with only half term for a breather. I feel super sorry for anyone taking any exam, I didn’t love the stress, expectation or lack of social life when I…
The Queen’s Broken Biscuit Cake recipe This week it’s all about Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Bloody good effort to her for making it thus far; and I’m not surprised she has so much energy given that, rumour has it, this is the Queen’s favourite Broken Biscuit Cake. Well we all know Her Majesty loves…
Gimlet recipe We really hit the ground running last week with the opening up of lockdown restrictions. We did a bit of bloody freezing garden drinking then had a few glasses of wine with our Easter celebrations. Subsequently this week I’ve been trying to swerve the weekday boozing and to cut down on unnecessary calories….
One Pot Beans with Belly Pork recipe As children, we were really rather spoilt with our meals at home. Our Mother is a great cook and would serve wonderful Saturday lunchtime feasts to stave off childhood hunger. My particular favourite was a mix of dried beans and belly pork. She’d soak the dried beans over…
