Blueberry Muffin Smoothie

Coming into this time of year I like to fit some Smoothies into my breakfast routines, especially as we get closer to the summer months and there is an abundance of fresh berries on offer.  This Blueberry Muffin Smoothie incorporates all things that are healthy for breakfast but with the tasty of a naughty Blueberry…

Banana and Walnut Yoghurt Pot

In an (other) attempt at being healthy I decided to give the ‘trendy’ 5:2 diet a go. To be honest I did spend months being sceptical of it. However, the more I thought about it the more I realised that it might actually be worth a shot!  The publicity round the book would make it…

Good Old Irish Wheaten Bread

One thing I miss about home (besides my family and friends that is!) is the bread.  I love Wheaten Bread, and although Mr Rankin has kindly delivered wheaten bread to the masses across the country, its actually not really like real Northern Irish Wheaten Bread, its more of a brown soda really.  Real wheaten bread…

Porto and Fi

Yesterday morning after a little incident in the kitchen, rendering it unusable, we were stuck with what to do about breakfast.  As we work in Stirling and have to leave reasonably early there is little open, except for – the Brewers Fayre?! Not really wanting to go down this route I trawled the web looking…

This is how I Cinnamon Roll….

Sorry for the title. I was having trouble thinking of one for this particular post and all I could come up with was this cheesy one! Anyway, since it is / was National Baking Week and I haven’t actually had the chance to do any baking this week I decided that I would make something…

Fluffy Pancakes

I love pancakes.  We are not long back from America and indulged in a decent amount of fluffy pancake eating.  I haven’t been feeling too well the last few days, so wakening up to a plate of these on a lazy Sunday morning made me feel better, and brought back happy memories of a great…