Fluffy sweet potato pancakes
Pancake day is looming. So I thought I’d offer you up something just a little different. I know you like your wafer thin crepes with sugar, lemon, Nutella, jam, caramel, bananas etc, but I wanted to...
View ArticleNever fail pancakes
I feel I could be in danger of teaching grandmother to suck eggs. But I’m ploughing on through anyway. It’s pancake day, or rather Shrove Tuesday. The day to use up all the fat and eggs in the house...
View ArticleSpinach, ricotta and sweet potato lasagne
This is one of those surprise recipe experiments that’s both delicious and also quick. I love quick. Quick and I are the best of friends. It’s also meat free, probably contains more than your requisite...
View ArticleLamb, pea and mint pie with rough puff pastry
Now I made a similar pie to this on This Morning and it was easy, oh so easy. You just stirred it on the hob, covered it in raw sliced potatoes, covered it and left it in the oven until your stomach...
View ArticleCrunchy pork meatballs with homemade tomato sauce
These crunchy meatballs are seriously moreish. Delicious served with homemade tomato sauce for dipping the meatballs in. Now if you don’t have a picky eater then huge bow to you. I have been blessed...
View ArticleChicken, potato & aubergine curry
My university pals came to stay. We did that thing everyone does at Christmas with their family, where we all revert to our childhood script. Except we reverted to our young adult script. I was always...
View ArticleLamb koftas, crunchy coleslaw & hummus
It’s half term, by today (it being Wednesday) the kids are probably starting to itch for something parent-inspired to do. I say put that Prittstick away! Save that jigsaw for tomorrow and instead get...
View ArticleVegetarian chilli
Food takes me back to places I physically can’t get to anymore. A plate of corned beef hash with lashings of HP Sauce and I’m 8 again, balancing a slightly too hot tray on my knee of a Saturday...
View ArticleNational picnic week with Warburtons Shapes
Did you know it’s National Picnic Week? Now let’s not be all British and moan about the weather. I personally don’t give two hoots about how sunny it is when it comes to eating al fresco; I have been...
View ArticleSweet & sour pork with veggie ribbon noodles
It was Lawrence’s first birthday today. My grandmother had two children in her early twenties and two in her thirties. She swore her forties were her favourite decade; I’m not sure what that says about...
View ArticleThe art of the sandwich with Warburtons
Well, it’s still National Picnic week. Have you had a picnic yet? I think we can extend the deadline to include this weekend if you’re pushed for time. A good picnic must have food that is both fun and...
View ArticleBourbon belly
We had a Mum’s night out on Friday. There were cocktails, kale crisps, wine, koftas, steak, cheese, pie and brownies. Plus gossip and laughter and comparing and contrasting. It was fun. I didn’t want...
View ArticleBlack & blue muffins
Drink and dial. Do you remember the days? Or drink and text? I recall deleting some numbers from my phone, save I call them at an inopportune gin related moment. And in later years drink and eBay...
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Vegetarian no meatballs
Baby Lawrence is going through a furious stage. To me, it seems he’s angry about the injustice of being 15 months old. Which is fair enough. Being 15 months old can be rubbish. For example, from L’s...
View ArticleThai spiced sweet potato, squash and coconut soup
Location is everything. Phil and Kirsty know what they’re talking about. When we booked our mini break in Madrid (sorry, but I can never write ‘mini break’ without thinking of Bridget Jones) we were...
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Fish & chips with McCain
The school routine is well and truly back. The house is a little quieter in the day, but in a credit/debit style the noise seems amplified come home time. The excitement of the day; the rush to get the...
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Sausage, stuffing and garlic wedges tray bake with McCain
The boys have embraced making their own tea once a week with vigour usually reserved only for Lego! The fish and chip supper they rustled up last week as part of the McCain Kids Teatime Takeover...
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Chicken stir fry jackets with McCain
So far the boys have made fish and chips and a sausage, stuffing and garlic wedges traybake as part of the McCain Kids Teatime Takeover (#KidsTeatimeTakeover). They are already plotting what they will...
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Thai Inspired Banquet with Slimfast
These turkey Thai cups are inspired by larb, a Thai minced meat dish with toasted sticky rice stirred into it and often served with yet more sticky rice. Here, we’re forgoing the rice and instead...
View ArticleQuinoa Veggie Burgers
I live an 80:20 lifestyle. I try and eat healthily 80% of the time, leaving me 20% for little treats and indulgences. BUT, and this is a big caveat for me, healthy eating has to be delicious. Life is...
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