Weeknights I try to keep things really simple.   I am very busy during the week and after having worked as a chef for many years, I quite...

  Eddingtons recently sent me some kitchenware from Epicurean to try out and I have spent the last month putting it through it's p...

  I am a huge fan of one an suppers.  The less washing up the better!  Less mess, less stress.  I recently came across this recipe for ...

I can still remember the first time I tasted Buttermilk. It was way back in the mid 1970's.  I think I bought some to make a cake wi...

I just love, love, LOVE the traditional recipes of the UK. All those years I spent ensconced in Enid Blyton books, drooling and dreaming...

This recipe has been floating around for years.   Chocolate Sheet Cake.  Texas Sheet Cake, etc.   Call it what you will, it is all the s...

I am a lover of quick breads  . . .  scones, tea loaves, baking powder biscuits, muffins, corn bread, etc.  I just love them.  One of th...

Who says that a savoury pie has to have meat in it to be good?  This pie is absolutely fabulous!  I found the recipe for it on Lesley...

   I love chicken and rice.  They are the ultimate combination, especially when combined with two of my favourite vegetables, peas an...

  When my children were growing up they used to love the frozen Pizza Pockets.  I also used to make them from scratch, but in reality t...

    Tomorrow is "Pancake Day" here in the UK, also known as Shrove Tuesday it is the last day before the beginning of Lent, ...

 Occasionally you run across a cake that is so squidgilly good that you either have to share it right away, or hide it and hog it all ...

   We are lucky enough to have a very prolific black currant bush in our back garden and so our freezer is filled with black currants f...

The husband is always after me to cook using things that we have in our store cupboard.  He is always complaining about how much we have...