These are my own recipes that I use regularly to cook family meals. Also lots of delicious desserts for those times you need to indulge.
There’s something terribly English and refreshing about a fruit fool. The end of summer and start of autumn meant it was perfect timing for the charms of a blackberry fool. We have an overabundance growing in our garden so I didn’t even have to wander down the lanes picking wild blackberries from hedgerows. I must admit it […]
Blackberry Fool recipe with a lovely twist Read More »
Summertime always means we have watermelon to eat at home. I hate wasting any of this sweet summer fruit so have been making my kids watermelon with lime ice lollies. Since watermelon needs to be stored in a cool place it’s also a great way to use up half of the fruit if you’re low on fridge
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A week ago there were only buds on my climbing roses entwined up a row of pillars. Then, as if in a celebration of the beginning of June, blooming roses covered the first wooden pillar. Glorious large pink roses. Most of my strawberry plants are still flowering or just beginning to form fruit, but I found some
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All month I’ve been drawn to a rosemary bush in our garden. It’s covered in beautiful small lavendar coloured flowers. And I kept wondering what should I do with them. Perhaps dry them or add them to some lotion or oil? When I realised they’re edible and just as tasty as the leaves, if not sweeter, I
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Sometimes we have to indulge at home and have chocolate for dessert. I know if I make chocolate malt pie there will be a lot of happy faces around me. It’s basically a chocolate cream pie made with chocolate malt, cream, and chocolate. Are you smiling yet? I use chocolate malt – rather than plain
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My son loves seafood so I regularly make baked butterflied prawns / shrimp. The breadcrumbs are subtly flavoured by adding oregano, grated lemon and Parmesan. Now that we’re living in the US my son has learnt to ask for shrimp whereas in the UK he called them prawns. Not only is it healthier baking them
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