Blackberry and Apple Crumble
It's blackberry harvest time now in the UK. I really love to pick and eat them and I feel that the whole experience is quite wonderful. I've taken a look...
Egg Fried Rice with Beef
My son is on a protein rich diet at the moment and makes this regularly. It's lovely to eat. You can also make this with chicken or prawns. Ingredients: 2...
Low Calorie Treats
I've been losing weight now for around 3 to 4 weeks. It's been manageable using the 'WeightWatchers' online app, and this provides me with the motivation to keep going. If...
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 (...
