A charming food blog with recipes and other ramblings which may or may not be of interest to you
Ricotta Doughnuts Recipe I bloody love a doughnut. This could stem from a childhood spent eating the hot ones, freshly fried, from the end of Eastbourne Pier, or could just be because I’m a bit of a pig. What’s not to like about hot, fried dough, sprinkled in sugar? Well, the what’s not to like…
Roast Butternut and Taleggio Risotto Recipe Risotto is the ultimate comfort food. It was one of the first dishes I used to make when Clyde and I moved in together 100 years ago. His favourite variety involved the addition of quite a good deal of sausages, that least traditional of Italian ingredients. In a move…
Winter Sun Cocktail Recipe Good Lord it’s been a long week. The first one back after Christmas always is after two weeks of doing nothing but eating and drinking. I was ready to go back to normality, for my livers sake if nothing else, but now, I am desperate for the weekend. I haven’t had…
Funfetti Blondie Recipe American baking websites are laden with funfetti/sprinkle/hundreds and thousands based recipes. If its not funfetti brownies, blondies or cookies then its funfetti cakes or fudge. The quality of the American sprinkles are far superior to ours, with much brighter colours. Ours are still a bit wishy washy and small, however, we are upping…
Dirty Banana Cocktail Recipe I have only ever been on one all inclusive holiday, but I loved that holiday. Compared to our usual self catering apartment style trips, it was bloody luxury, and I have never felt so rested in my life. The whole ‘rested’ business may well be based on the amount of all…
10 Years Younger Face Mask Recipe This week I decided, in honour of this Sunday’s Mother’s Day, to step away from the stove and into the realm of kitchen based beauty products. I am not really one for spending hours on my beauty regime, just a bloody good moisturiser and plenty of make up does…
Little Lemon Pots Recipe I have been quite slack at hosting dinner parties thus far in 2016. Real life has been getting in the way of spending some quality time with our friends. However, when I am in dinner party mode, this is one of my most brilliant pudding recipes. It’s just what you need…
