School Dinner Cake
Do you remember being in the queue in the dining room at lunchtime when you were at primary school? What was the food you looked forward to the most? Or...
Shortbread Biscuits
The recipe for shortbread goes back around 800 years to Scotland (The Scots are marvels for invention) and was called 'Biscuit bread'. It was made from left over bread dough...
Lasagne
This lasagne is made with beef mince, use Quorn mince for a vegetarian version. Ingredients: 500g Beef or Quorn mince 400g tin of tomatoes 1 stick of celery 1 onion...
Pip’s Beef Cannelloni
My children have never been particularly forthcoming with praise in regard to anything that requires cooking on a hob or in the oven. This Cannelloni, (I never knew how hard...
Madeira Cake
[caption id="attachment_9649" align="alignleft" width="300"] No house brick jokes thank you!![/caption] After we'd chowed down this Madeira Cake, I had an urge to reaffirm in my middle-aged brain that in fact...
Annarita’s Spaghetti Bolognese
I have a friend, an Italian friend. In fact, she's as authentically Italian as you can get. She came from a town in Italy on the heel of the boot....
Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients: 250g plain flour 100g sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder pinch of salt 175ml milk 75ml vegetable oil 1 egg Half a teaspoon of vanilla extract 125g chocolate chips (...
Food for Moods
I've been a bit of a naughty girl tonight and feeling totally down in the dumps. You know how it is sometimes; nobody loves me, I really am a fat...
Chocolate Flutterby Cakes
I know these are meant to be called 'Butterfly Cakes', but I call them 'Chocolate Flutterby Cakes'. It is a name given to them by my youngest son, when we...
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: How long's a piece of string? Cooking time: Depends on your oven, but around 10 minutes. Ingredients: 225g caster sugar 300g plain flour 200g melted butter 1tsp vanilla...
