Double Chocolate & Fig Oatmeal Cookies
I have a terrible weakness for cookies… and cakes, and ice cream, and all things sweet… but mostly cookies.
Foil-baked Shetland Salmon with Orzo & Courgette Ribbons
In February of this year Vanesther at Bangers & Mash started a new food blogging challenge ‘Recipes for Life’ to help out a charity that operates just down the road from her.
Chocobanutty Ice Cream
Some years I discovered the magic that is banana ‘ice cream’.
Baladi (Wholemeal Pitta Bread)
The first time I was ever introduced to flatbreads was through an employer of mine back in Canada.
French Baguettes
I love fresh bread. I have fond childhood memories of visiting my friend’s house when her mother had her bread-baking days. She’d spend a whole day making the bread for the month and the table and oven would be filled with loaves and trays of rolls, glistening with the melted butter brushed over the top.
Bread Machine Na’an Bread Recipe
We live out in the country where there are no takeaways. If we were to get a takeaway we’d have to drive for at least half an hour to town and back
Roast Chicken with Herb Butter, Onions and Garlic
I simply adore garlic, onions and roast chicken and this French-inspired recipe is a most delicious way to combine all three ingredients.
Chocolate Biscuit Cake
Be warned. This recipe is far too tasty. It’s so good that I’m not going to check the calorie content because I don’t want to be put off making/eating it!
Rhubarb Ripple Ice Cream with Hazelnut Oat Clusters
Springtime means rhubarb! When those little tender ruby stalks force themselves out of the cold winter earth you know the weather has finally turned and Spring has arrived.
Chocolate Black Pepper Cookies
Chocolate and black pepper work marvellously well together.
Grandma Ann’s Sweet & Sour Meatballs
This is my Canadian grandmother’s sweet and sour meatballs recipe. She used to make a big batch of these for us for Christmas Eve dinner back in the 80s and 90s and I don’t believe there were ever any leftovers.
Three Bean Vegetable Soup
There’s nothing better than a hearty, warming vegetable soup when the wind is howling outside.
Feta Cheese, Onion & Potato Bread with Rosemary
It’s the beginning of a new month. This means that all the new themes for food blogging challenges are announced. I love this time of month; I find it inspiring. What am I going to be challenged to make this month? Is it something new?
Banana Bran Muffins
For breakfast I usually love my plain, natural yogurt with fruit and homemade granola, but sometimes I like something different.
Orkney Beremeal Bannocks
Bere (pronounced ‘bear’) is a form of six-row barley which has been grown in Orkney for thousands of years.
A Walk Back in Time: John Clunies-Ross
I’ve always been a bit of an explorer/adventurer. Ever since I was a little girl growing up in the wilds of Canada I could be found out exploring new areas, always keen for a new adventure.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Avocado Frosting (Vegan)
Some time ago a fellow food blogger wrote about using avocado in chocolate frosting instead of butter. I like avocado, but I was sceptical – wouldn’t you be able to taste the avocado? HHrrmmm.. I dunno. I filed the idea away in my brain as something to try at a later date.
Chocolate Honey Nut Bars
The OH is one of those skinny people: an ectomorph. You know, one of those people who can eat and eat and eat and not put on a single ounce.
Halo Reach Birthday Cake
Our eldest turned thirteen the other day. I am officially the mother of a teenager – how did that happen? I’m not old enough to have a teenage child!