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This charming cookbook accidentally fell into my Amazon basket the other day (does that happen to you too?) and it’s gorgeous! The beautiful illustrations are by Yelena Bryksenkova. So after too many relentlessly rainy days I think we all deserve a happy ending when we get home. Tonight there will be Beauty and the Beast […]

The boys had great fun experimenting with these.  Simply put a raw egg in some vinegar and watch the shell dissolve then you can pick the egg up and bounce it and roll it and of course, splat it everywhere!              

I put all our old bananas (and just why do we always have old bananas in the house?) just as they are in the freezer. When I opened the freezer yesterday a frozen banana fell on my foot. I took the hint and made this:                       and here’s the […]

Joe decided that he was too old for a themed cake (hooray!) and asked me to make him a caramel and chocolate cake instead. So, I made him Nigella’s butterscotch layer cake, although I cheated and bought the caramel sauce because last time I tried to make it I had to throw away the saucepan! I decorated the cake with butterscotch […]

Our gorgeous Henry is 7. He didn’t want a birthday cake he wanted a pavlova with ‘as many strawberries, raspberries and maltesers as you can fit on it’. So that’s what he got! Happy birthday my lovely.

Tony makes things too. Practical, manly things using sharp tools and wood. I made a cake on Friday using the spoon Tony made for me and realised I’d never shown it to you  it’s whittled from a fallen tree branch and is the nicest wooden spoon I’ve had.               […]

                                Football was cancelled so I had a little helper in the kitchen  Henry was pretty pleased with his coffee and walnut cake and even took a slice into school for his teacher who declared it the very best cake she had ever […]

Well, I just about managed to get everything done before our friends arrived. Although the hoover was still in use when the doorbell went! I had also found the time to make a bottle of Limoncello It looks (and tastes) innocent enough, but it’s not! You have been warned… here’s the recipe from my family favourites cook book.           […]

Year, after year I’ve made blackberry and apple jam. But, I haven’t been given the cooking apples this year. And I’m far too thrifty to buy them just for jam. So, I’ve had to try something different with the results of my blackberry picking obsession: Bramble jelly. And guess what? It’s even nicer than blackberry and […]