Cranberry Sauce is a must at this time of year. Not only as a condiment for your Christmas Dinner but it can also be used in canapes – such as my Brie and Cranberry Parcels, or on a cheese board. This is a quick and easy recipe to make your own Cranberry Sauce, impress your…
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Festive Canapes
It’s always handy to have a few tasty and easy Canapes up your sleeve for over the Christmas and New Year periods. Usually I end up with the staple of sausage rolls and cocktail sausages, and this year I wanted to do something a little bit different. Here are a couple of tasty Canapes for this…
Pea & Mint Soup
On these cold winters days there is nothing nicer than a big bowl of warming soup. This recipe is super quick, easy to make and perfect for a working from home lunch, or any other quick meal. It is also a good way to use up that never-ending bag of peas stuck at the back…
Sticky Orange Marmalade Cake
Growing up I loved Paddington Bear, in fact I actually think my parents still have my old stuffed toy half hanging together somewhere! The big kid in me was excited to learn of the new Paddington Bear film which is released today! Am I too old to go and see it? Never! and will I…
Mikado Coconut Cream Cake
As a kid growing up I loved Jacobs Kimberley, Mikado and Coconut Creams, I think it was the marshmallow in them all that attracted me (a sweet tooth from an early age!). I remember also liking the catchy tune on the advert, but looking back at that now I am not sure it sits so…
Plum Jam
I seem to be in a bit of a jam making mood at the moment, using up all the fruit stocks in my freezer and also any bargains picked up in the supermarket. While on holiday recently I enjoyed some freshly made scotch pancakes with homemade Plum Jam. I had forgotten how tasty it was…
Scallop & Gin Ceviche
Recently while on holiday on the Isle of Lewis, Stuart and I came across the Hebridean Hand Dived Scallops, based in a shell covered shed on the end of a pier in Miavaig near Uig. Not ones to pass up the opportunity to have some local fresh delicacies we stopped in and came face to…
White Chocolate and Raspberry Baked Cheesecake
It was our friends annual BBQ a couple of weeks ago (we were optimistic that we would get nice weather, but we didn’t, it rained all day!) and as usual I was tasked with providing dessert. I have had a craving for a baked cheesecake for a while, and so I went about scouring the…
Gooseberry and Elderflower Jam
Having gone a bit crazy at a Pick your Own Farm, I now have a freezer full of fruit waiting to be turned into tasty jams or crumbles. I decided to make a Gooseberry and Elderflower Jam with the mountain of delicious gooseberries I picked. The jam is relatively straight forward to make, I have…
Mango Smoothie
I am really getting into Smoothies at the moment, I think the excesses of the Edinburgh Festival is taking its toll on me and I am craving something tasty yet a little bit healthy! For this Smoothie I actually cheated and used pre-chopped mango – tastes the same just quicker to make! Mango Smoothie (Makes…
Queen of Everything 