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…
Irish Cream Coffee Recipe It’s December tomorrow, which can only mean one thing. Yes, it’s time to dig out/crack open the Baileys. From now until 1 January I am giving you carte blanche to enjoy a little nip of something creamy and whisky based on a regular basis. Not that you need my permission, but…
Homemade Sambuca Recipe Sambuca is my very favourite shot to enjoy of an evening. I have one particular friend who won’t host a dinner party without at least two bottles of Sambuca to ply her guests with. It is quite a pricey affair, even for a half bottle so I couldn’t resist having a stab…
Simple Pork Dumplings Recipe I love a dumpling. I have spent years ordering them from takeaways or buying them frozen from the oriental supermarket, safe in the knowledge they were far too much of a kerfuffle to make myself. Well I wished I hadn’t waited 49 bloody years to try. These Simple Pork Dumplings are,…
Beef and Barley Soup Recipe Today’s recipe is like a huge, all enveloping hug in a bowl. Beef and Barley Soup is a delightful cross between a broth and a casserole, which ticks all sorts of boxes for me. And to add to the list of appealing qualities it’s relatively low calorie to boot. See,…
